Naugatuck News

Several local emergency management directors are questioning the state's rush to award a no-bid contract for an emergency alert system when another option priced at about a third of the $1.4 million cost had been previously considered.

Just six days after the class meets, at which no girl could break the 19-minute mark, six went sub-19 Friday afternoon in a blazing State Open at Wickham Park.

WestConn police arrested a 21-year-old student after a professor reported that someone was stating racial obscenities in a classroom building on campus Thursday afternoon.

Students were evacuated from City Hill Middle School in Nautatuck amid a fire Thursday morning.

When the economy goes down, fraud goes up. Authorities say it's happening right now with insurance fraud when people may fake or exaggerate injuries to collect lucrative benefits.

A half-dozen years ago, at the peak of a building boom reshaping the Naugatuck Valley, a hot-tempered developer of strip malls named James Botti boasted that he had enough evidence of small-town graft to "collapse town hall" just by calling the FBI .

From the three-story house near the top of Oak Avenue, one of the tenants could look down at Borough Hall, where municipal inspectors work.

Mt. Cavalry Baptist Church, nestled comfortably into a rented space on the corner of Rubber Avenue and Church Street, was founded in 2002.

Mum's the word in Shelton and Derby when it comes to some candidate debates. As is often the case, there's a twist.

An $800,000 state grant, combined with $300,000 in federal funds, means the city will be able to prepare the land known as the DOT property for development without using city funds.

JACKSONVILLE, FL: Adolph J. Kazemekas, 96, of Jacksonville, Florida, formerly of Naugatuck, Connecticut and Zanesville, Ohio, died on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at Clare Bridge Care Center of complications from Alzheimer's Disease.

NAUGATUCK a ' The borough will start cleaning a contaminated former industrial parcel downtown next month.

Two new milling and resurfacing projects, on routes 2 and 8, will be added to the list of this year's Department of Transportation jobs being funded through federal stimulus grants.

A Connecticut teenager has been charged in the slaying of her grandmother, who was found dead in the Naugatuck condo they shared.

An early morning fire at a local bakery has be termed "suspicious" by the state fire marshal, after another bakery in Monroe owned by the same people also caught fire early Friday morning.

NAUGATUCK a ' Police have arrested the only suspect in the Oct. 1 killing of Italia Liguori at 88-5 Lantern Park Drive.

The state police Major Crime Squad and state police fire investigators are probing an early-morning bakery fire.

Scores of volunteers armed with trash bags, flowers, shovels, rakes, and other tools flooded North Main Street and the surrounding Union City community Saturday as they set about revamping the blighted area through trash cleanup and light landscaping.

High winds are whipping through the state, snapping trees in half and causing power outages.

The temperature dipped below freezing this morning in some parts of Fairfield and New Haven counties, as a strong high pressure system continued to push into the region last night.