Southbury News

The redistricting of the state's probate courts, which is based on population levels, will take effect Jan.

Take freezing rain. Add already-frozen ground. Mix in lots of drivers suddenly caught in the worst conditions of the what is not winter.

One of the best decisions Frank Kelly said he's ever made was taking a job at Danbury Hospital more than three decades ago.

By John Voket & Kendra Bobowick Dawn arrived late as clouds dropped snow across an early Wednesday morning, closing schools and making a mess of Newtown's roadways.

The town has received a $50,000 state grant to hire consultants to help make regulatory changes designed to reduce polluted runoff into the Pequabuck River.

Cyrenius H. Booth was the grandfather of Newtown benefactress Mary Hawley, and the man for whom the library is named.

Department of Revenue Services enforcement agents this week arrested two state businessmen on separate tax violations, with both accused of collecting sales tax from customers and not paying it to the state.

Commitment can be scary, so they started cautiously, calling themselves the Occasional Book Club .

State police on Wednesday identified a 57-year-old Newtown woman as the person who was killed Tuesday while crossing Route 116 near the Metro-North railroad station.

Is there an echo in the borough? The Board of Mayor and Burgesses took a page from the Naugatuck Teachers League strategy book when it voted, 8-1, to cast a symbolic vote of no confidence in Superintendant of Schools John Tindall-Gibson's leadership Tuesday night.

It's been said that holiday get-togethers are fertile grounds for chaos, misbehavior, drunkenness, lechery, gluttony and family feuds.

A third fatality is reported on state-patrolled  highways in Connecticut this holiday weekend.  State police in Southbury say 62-year-old John Sheehan of Shelton was southbound on Roosevelt Drive in Oxford when a northbound vehicle driven by 20-year-old Brian Hull of Milford crossed the center line and struck his vehicle. 

Four people were charged at Empire Szechuan Thursday, after police responded to a report of minors drinking at the bar.

Actor Tim Guinee, left, plays Des Sarkissian, a pastor and the father of the title character of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.

The 83rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be marching your way Thursday and Jack Saleeby, 15, of Southbury, will not only be there.

The project was scheduled to be completed this fall. The grant represents the Portell Foundation's commitment to multi-year support of the Cancer Center.

It was a horrific crime that thrust the state of Connecticut into the national headlines.

Worshippers at the First Congregational Church of Danbury were transported back 300 years yesterday for a special Colonial worship in celebration of Thanksgiving and the city's Tricentennial birthday.

Back in July, when a customer called Savuth In to congratulate him, he had no idea what the customer was talking about.

WESTPORTBy STEVE KOBAKHour Staff WriterThe trial of a former Trader Joe's supervisor arrested by Westport Police for allegedly sexually assaulting an employee was continued Tuesday at Norwalk Superior Court.Stephen M. Ward, 53, of Southbury, was charged June 11 with first-degree sexual .