TRUMBULL, Conn. (WTNH) -- Five Democrats are vying to succeed retiring Sen. Marilyn Moore (D-District 22) in a key Connecticut Senate district that includes part of the state's largest city. The district covers all of Trumbull, part of Bridgeport and part of Monroe. Former Bridgeport mayor Bill Finch, Trumbull law professor Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox,...

GLASTONBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — A recent graduate from Quinnipiac University, Ashley Zimmerman was an ER nurse at Hartford Hospital less than a year when she got a call. It wasn't from a doctor or the hospital, but from a coach. A man had been stabbed in the hallway outside of a gymnastics meet at Glastonbury's Academy Building back in February....

WEST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Former West Haven state representative Michael DiMassa, 32, currently serving a 27-month sentence for stealing more than $1.2 million of the city's COVID-19 relief money, is asking for a sentence reduction due to "extraordinary and compelling reasons." A motion was filed on Monday with the federal court to have DiMassa's...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — There's a new push by some in the Elm City to have armed patrols out on the streets as a means to address crime. But community activists and the New Haven mayor say it's a bad idea. Cornell Lewis runs the Self-Defense Brigade, which provides training for residents on how to protect themselves through martial arts and...

MERIDEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- Bob's Stores will lay off 145 employees at the end of the month in Meriden, the business told the state, as part of "business circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable." SDI Stores, which does business as Bob's Stores, alerted the Connecticut Department of Labor of the decision on Tuesday. The layoffs will happen...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP/NEXSTAR) — In roughly a year, you'll need a special identification card, known as a REAL ID, in order to fly domestically, visit certain federal facilities, or enter a nuclear power plant. Enforcement of these federally-approved IDs was set to begin in 2020, but was delayed multiple times because of the COVID-19 pandemic....