Brigitte Ruthman

A rarity 30 years ago and almost nonexistent for a century before that, bears and bear sightings are on the rise in the state where they've been spotted in 117 municipalities. Close encounters are on the rise. Gone from Connecticut by the mid-1800s when they were hunted without regulation and had

HARWINTON - A local man died Sunday and a Windsor woman was seriously injured after being struck by a car in front of his home. State police say Kevin Gangell, 24, of 181 Clearview Ave. was struck by a car driven by a Torrington man and succumbed to his injuries. The car, an 2008 Audi A4 drive

TORRINGTON - A Harwinton man with an admitted addiction to pornography is being held on $10,000 bond, accused of having hundreds of images and videos depicting child pornography on his computer.Gregory Jones of Garden Lane suffers from Aspergers, which defense attorney Robert Salerno described as a

TORRINGTON-Occasionally, a defendant slips through the cracks of the justice system and ends up back on the street. For a little while anyway. It's what happened to Nicole Menard, a Torrington woman identified during a traffic stop by city police on Aug. 10 as the suspected culprit in the shop

TORRINGTON - A Hartland man who offered paying customers a view of wildlife on his 114 acres is headed to trial, facing criminal charges of causing alarm and risk by firing gunshots in the vicinity of state bear biologists four years ago.Although Mark Brault never admitted to firing with the intenti

TORRINGTON - The frantic cry "Where is Tyler?" split the night as three of Tyler Brazil's friends searched for and found the 21-year-old Norfolk man pinned beneath the 2006 Nissan Sentra he had been riding in before it flipped along Route 263 on Sept. 28, 2020. The question six jurors are being a

TORRINGTON - Pressed on the witness stand Wednesday at Torrington Superior Court to consider the possibility that measurements and findings of a crash that killed 21-year-old Tyler Brazil of Norfolk four years ago could have been wrong, state police Detective Albert Gorski replied, "I don't think so

LICHFIELD - During a tour Friday, judicial court reporter Robin Mitchell couldn't help but glance at the high ceiling in what was the second floor main courtroom of the county courthouse, now reinvented as the Abner Hotel. The guest list was limited to those who worked or conducted business here,

TORRINGTON - Frank Flowers, known for his charity work for children in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., walked out of Superior Court Friday without penalty after serious charges of felony first-degree burglary, third-degree assault, risk of injury to a child, and violation of a protective order were reduced to m

TORRINGTON -- A city man who police say accessed images of child pornography was set free Monday on a $100,000 bond following his arraignment in Superior Court. Aaron Dipippo, 23, of 384 County Road in the city, is accused of possessing images involving young children involved in sex acts with ad