The Newtown Public School PTAs and PTSA hosted candidates for the Board of Education at an informational forum in the Newtown High School Lecture Hall on October 23 that had the candidates answer ques...

WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) led 28 senators, including U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), on Wednesday, Octo...

NEW HAVEN- A federal grand jury has returned an indictment, charging John J. McCarthy, 63, of Newtown with one count of armed bank robbery in connection with an August incident in Newtown, Deirdre M. ...

Hanover Road Police report a two-vehicle collision on Hanover Road, near its intersection with Pond Brook Road, about 5:18 pm on October 24. The crash involved driver Orlando Feliciano, 25, of Br...

Keith Phaneuf, Jacqueline Rabe Thomnas, Mark Pazniokas ©The Connecticut Mirror With the flourish of a veto-proof margin, the House of Representatives voted October 26 to give final legislat...

Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill, Connecticut's chief elections official, reminds potential voters that the deadline to register to vote in time for this year's municipal election is Tuesday, ...

STORRS - On October 12, Officer Maryhelen McCarthy of Newtown Police Department was awarded the Chief Michael J. Fallon Memorial CIT Officer of the Year award. The award was presented to Ofc McCarthy ...

The three candidates running for first selectman in the November 7 municipal elections answered a range of questions, including queries on property taxation, land development, and the aftermath of 12/...

NOTE: This story has been updated and expanded from a story 2017.first reported on Tuesday, October 24, Ten Newtown Hook & Ladder and Botsford Fire Rescue volunteer firefighters responded at abo...

The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center at Town Hall South, 3 Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders: Thursday, October 19: 9:59 am, Queen Street, p...