Winsted (Winchester, Connecticut)

An 18-year-old man who police say kidnapped a woman at gunpoint Monday evening in Torrington was arrested after a two-hour standoff with police at a Mundry Road home Tuesday morning. Joshua E. Ballard surrendered to police outside 127 Mundry Road at...

"Take Dad Out For Dessert" on Father's Day, June 16, when Winchester Grange presents its annual Strawberry Festival at the Grange Hall on the Green in Winchester Center. The festival features the area's largest servings of Strawberry Shortcake made...

For the last six years, Republican state legislators have put together an alternative budget to the one presented and usually enacted by Democrats, who have strong majorities in both houses of the legislature. This year, however, the GOP declined to offer...

Nov 8 Some 18,000 Connecticut Light and Power customers were still without power midday Tuesday, most in the Simsbury area. About one-third of Simsbury was without electricity, as was a quarter of Avon and Farmington, and many in Granby, Canton,...

Spend some time this weekend with your eyes to the sky looking for Connecticut's summer bird inhabitants. June 23, 8 a.m., Early Birding at Ansonia Nature Center, 10 Deerfield Road, Ansonia, (203) 736-1053, ansonianaturecenter.org. June 23, 9 a.m.,...

Ants have been sneaking inside warm houses for centuries. Our ancestors did not use poison, but they had a way to keep the ants away from their food. They made ant traps of pottery or glass designed to keep ants from climbing up the legs of a kitchen or...

Joanne Thompson of Torrington, who recently was diagnosed as diabetic, asked readers for some gluten-free recipes. Sandy Ramesh from South Windsor sent several recipes from her book, "Simple Vegetarian Cooking," which includes recipes for people who are...

It may not feel like it but for many kids, tonight is a school night! Tomorrow, school starts in East Granby and Bethel, two weeks before Labor Day which typically marks the start of the school season. "I don't think it's too early this year," said...

About five dozen firefighters from four departments are still battling a fire at a Torrington industrial complex. The building burning is one of five at the old Stone container complex, so called because it was once home of a Smurfit-Stone box...

Ken Edwards shakes his head in disbelief when he thinks about his first domestic violence training session as a rookie cop in New London in 1981. The instructor encouraged the young officers to keep family violence a private matter and told them an...

MIDDLEBURY, Conn. (AP) - A 700-pound moose that was on the loose in Middlebury, Conn. has been moved to a new home. The Department of Environmental Protection on Friday tranquilized the two-year-old male, spotted in several towns in recent days, after it...

A serious head-on crash has closed route 44 by the Winsted/Colebrook town line.   Police say a car and tractor trailer collided shortly after 10am Friday in the area of Pinney Street.  Route 44 is expected to be closed for several hours.   A detour is...