Playwright A.J. Gurney , novelist Roxana Robinson and University of Connecticut English professor Lynn Bloom will be the panelists for a discussion about the impact writing can have on human rights when the Litchfield County Writers Project concludes its fall series "Justice, Injustice and Human Rights" at the Torrington campus of the university.

The state police SWAT team has surrounded a home on East Litchfield Road South where a man is believed to be holed up with a weapon after allegedly shooting his wife.

State Police are responding to a standoff at a home on East Litchfield Road South in Litchfield after a man allegedly shot his wife on Tuesday morning.

TORRINGTON, CT - DYMAX Corporation recently hosted a webinar, "Conformal Coating at the Speed of Light: UV Conformal Coating from Start to Finish." The webinar focuses on cost savings of UV and how to qualify and maintain an effective UV conformal coating process .

Before he became a political operative, Chris Healy worked as a reporter at the Register Citizen in Torrington.

A federal appeals court says it is disturbed by allegations that some prosecutors have long denied low-income defendants their right to arraignment and free legal representation when they first appear in court.

Surveillance video of a robbery at Northwest Bank on Winsted Road in Torrington on Tuesday.

First he asked the judge. Then he appealed to the Connecticut Supreme Court . On Nov.

Time is running out to see the endearing, instantly-recognizable samples of Lois Lenski's illustrations currently on view at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum in New Brunswick.

Submitted by Warner Theatre on 2009-11-11.   On Thursday, Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. the Warner Theatres Nancy Marine Studio Theatre will come alive with the songs of Michael Jackson.

NEW YORK The Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn., has named Liz Strillacci its new managing editor.

When talking about musicals, if someone says, "They don't write them like that anymore," I would add, "And they rarely did." Few musicals out of the thousands that have opened on Broadway have the power to remain fresh, vibrant and moving over time.

An 87-year-old man drove away from his home around 10:30 a.m. Saturday and had not returned as of late Saturday night, according to police, who were searching for him.

Today is a statewide Day of Caring and Compassion and 15 fire stations around Connecticut - including Westport Fire Headquarters - will serve as collection centers for donations of nonperishable food to help replenish the state's two main food pantries.

Mary-Selvi Ingoldsby of Torrington is a senior at the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford , where she is majoring in drawing.

A battle is brewing in Kent over whether a Sept. 11 memorial will say a fallen resident was "Murdered by Moslem extremists," and Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly is getting involved.

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Torrington firefighters fought a 3 alarm fire at a commercial building at 644 Main St.

An 86-year-old woman was critically injured and another woman suffered minor injuries in a one-vehicle crash on South Main Street Saturday.

A Litchfield County marketer with exclusive rights to manufacture certain Michael Jackson memorabilia was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for dodging taxes and hiding money from the IRS .