Norwich News

The gambling industry brings with it built-in negative impacts wherever it exists - from crime, traffic and zoning issues to the 3 percent to 4 percent of the population that becomes problem or pathological gamblers.

Above, Julie Victoria, a Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection wildlife biologist, struggles Thursday to pull an osprey chick from its nest to band it.

Police arrested a Norwich man Monday after he crashed the car he was driving on Water Street and discovered that he was wanted in another state.

Fire officials are trying to figure out the cause of an overnight three alarm apartment fire in Norwich.

An early morning blaze at a multifamily home at 70 Union St. in Norwich displaced 13 people.

Norwich - It's not every day you celebrate a 350th birthday. Which is why Norwich set aside an entire month for that exact purpose - and Sunday's Semiseptcentennial parade was a fine exclamation point to the city's party.

Among celebrations of the current Norwich 350th anniversary, I was pleased to note an exhibit devoted to one of my heroines, Sarah L. Huntington Smith, a Norwich native who distinguished herself as an educator at home and abroad.

Norwich - City Manager Alan Bergren last week defended his decision to hire an outside candidate over the 16-year veteran assistant to fill the vacant assessor's position.

Norwich - The monthlong celebration of the city's 350th anniversary is going into overtime.

Norwich - The police department is reminding residents and visitors about parking limitations and restrictions on Sunday before and during Norwich's 350th Parade.

On Friday, June 26, 2009, at approximately 12:47am, Troopers from the Connecticut State Police Barracks at Troop E Montville, and officers from the Ledyard Police Department responded to a disturbance at David's Cafe, located at 134 Route 12 in the town of Preston.

It might be hard to convince people who live in a medieval city in England that a 350th anniversary is something to celebrate, but organizers of the Norwich-Norfolk World Family Gathering will try this weekend.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 6:45 am US/Eastern NORWICH, Conn. Court records show that a 57-year-old Maine man charged in a fatal motorcycle accident in Connecticut has rejected a plea deal.

A defendant accused of fatally stabbing a Norwich, Conn., man outside a Providence nightclub has been ordered held without bail.

Norwich - Residents along several West Side neighborhoods expressed mixed views on a redesigned sewer-expansion proposal at a public hearing Tuesday, some "enthusiastically" endorsing the idea, and others saying they would never need it.

State police arrested six men Sunday morning after they allegedly severely assaulted a Norwich man at the Brookside Cafe in Preston.

The ultimate act of bravery leaves a Griswold man fighting for his life in the burn unit at Bridgeport Hospital.

They've owned it for three months. Now it's time for the taxpayers to see what they bought.

City police completed a six-month narcotics investigation Thursday by executing 15 arrest warrants and three search-and-seizure warrants in different parts of the city.

Norwich - John Iovino said he had to do some checking before he could make his presentation at Wednesday's annual Native Son Awards luncheon.