Blue Hills News

The U.S. Postal Service is planning to study 13 post offices that it may close of consolidate.

A 200-pound black bear was captured Sunday after it became stuck in a tree at Fox Middle School in Hartford.

Hartford police are investigating a string of burglaries they said have hit homeowners hard on the north side of the city.

A school was placed under a lock-in Wednesday after police were called to a caf across the street in Hartford.

"I couldn't keep up with all the maintenance on my own," said Pelletier, a single mother who works full time.

Tiffany Brown was sleeping in her second-story apartment on Bond Street when she heard beeping and banging just before 5 a.m. Sunday.

Two separate fires erupted on the opposite ends of Hartford, less an hour apart from each other, leaving 17 residents displaced Sunday morning.

Last summer, when Hartford libraries were in a major financial crunch, the state swept in with emergency funding to reopen two community branches.

The Blue Hills Avenue branch of the Hartford Public Library is shuttered again. But neighborhood residents shouldn't storm city hall or demand the heads of library officials just yet, because this closure has nothing to do with politics or budgets.

Sedans and SUVs lined the streets, small children rode around on bicycles, and a car stereo played R&B for the dozens standing outside Eddie Smith Jr.'s home on Woodstock Street Sunday afternoon.

Florence Johnson never expected her daughter to graduate from "that warehouse," the commercial building where Pathways to Technology magnet high school has been temporarily housed since 2004.