Mikaela Porter
Hartford Courant
Connecticut, United States
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Honor Wellness Center aims to help serve the mental health needs of first responders
Leaders of a nonprofit in Manchester created to provide mental health assistance to first responders are looking to secure grant funding to ensure that police officers, firefighters and veterans can continue their therapy without worrying about making payments. → Read More
Judge maintains $1 million bond for University of Hartford student charged in stabbing in school dorm
A University of Hartford student, accused of stabbing two other students while re-enacting a scene from the movie “The Butterfly Effect” in a university dorm Sunday, is to be arraigned in a hospital room Monday, court officials said. → Read More
Hartford police investigating after 2-year-old girl suffers second degree burns
A two-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns to her feet and lower legs after a bath Friday afternoon, Hartford police said Saturday. → Read More
Enfield police arrest local man following Friday morning shooting, victim identified
Enfield police arrested a 22-year-old Enfield man after a late-morning shooting Friday, and identified the victim of the shooting as a 33-year-old Massachusetts man. → Read More
New Haven traffic and parking employee punched in the back of the head
A New Haven Traffic & Parking employee was punched in the back of the head by an assailant Wednesday afternoon, a New Haven Police Captain said. → Read More
Home of former Hamden schools secretary shown in viral video of racist tirade at East Haven supermarket burglarized
The former Hamden Public Schools secretary who resigned from her job after a video of her yelling racial slurs at a black man at an East Haven grocery store went viral last week, is now the victim of a burglary, New Haven police said Tuesday. → Read More
Park Road’s Los Adobes closes, New Britain-based Taqueria La Grande moving in
The Los Adobes Mexican restaurant on the corner of Park Road and Oakwood Avenue, open since late 2008, has closed. → Read More
West Hartford, Bristol police arrest man after engaging officers in pursuit near Westfarms
A Bristol man who fled from West Hartford police near Westfarms Mall Thursday morning was later found by Bristol police at his home with roughly 20 wax folds of heroin on him, police said Monday. → Read More
West Hartford Police arrest Hartford man after shots fired incident at New Britain Avenue gas station in mid-January
West Hartford police charged a Hartford man on Thursday with illegally discharging a firearm at a New Britain Avenue Sunoco in mid-January.Police arrested William Acevedo, 38, of 45 Barker St. on warrant and charged him with criminal attempt to commit first-degree assault and criminal possession of a pistol/ revolver as well. Acevedo is being held on $200,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in… → Read More
After 45 years of leadership, Mary Lou Cobb, founder of Simsbury’s Cobb School to step down
Though Mary Lou Cobb will no longer lead the school at the end of June, she plans to stay engaged in different educational programs, a newborn care program for parents and a partnership with McLean Care to maintain Alzheimer’s patients’ independence. Cobb is the founder and has been the head of school for 45 years. → Read More
Three member towns oppose bill that would grant MDC oversight of stormwater management
Leaders from West Hartford, East Hartford and Wethersfield say they oppose proposed legislation that would allow the quasi-public Metropolitan District oversight and authority over stormwater management in its eight member towns. → Read More
Two cars collide in West Hartford, one driver transported to hospital with injuries
Two cars collided at the Simsbury Road and Mohegan Drive intersection in West Hartford Wednesday morning, police said, and one driver was transported by ambulance to the hospital. → Read More
Nigerian national serves 10 months for phishing scheme that targeted Groton schools, Sacred Heart University
A Nigerian national who obtained W-2 forms for approximately 1,300 Groton Public School employees and compromised about 100 Sacred Heart Academy employees’ W-2 forms in early 2017 will be deported back to Nigeria, having served a 10 month sentence already. → Read More
Plans filed for a new permanent stage outside Elizabeth Park’s rose garden
Elizabeth Park Conservancy and To Design has filed plans with West Hartford’s Town Plan and Zoning Commission to build a permanent stage outside Elizabeth Park’s rose garden. → Read More
State Senate candidate fires campaign manager after tweet criticized as anti-Semitic
Senate 5th district Republican Bill Wadsworth said his campaign manager has been terminated after learning of an unsavory tweet she posted on her personal account. → Read More
West Hartford school board changes graduation requirements for class of 2023
The next class of freshman at Hall and Conard high schools in West Hartford will have to meet a different set of requirements before being allowed to graduate, the board of education voted Tuesday. → Read More
Three hospitalized in West Hartford after carbon monoxide fills home
Three people were hospitalized after carbon monoxide filled their North Main Street home. → Read More
A year after Parkland, Connecticut students reflect on their work, look to future
The thousands of students who walked from their Connecticut schools on March 20, 2018 demanding gun reform was just the beginning. In the last year, Connecticut saw increased civic engagement among youth and continued work by school leaders to enhance school safety and mental health. → Read More
Hartford man charged with reckless driving after high school student was pinned between delivery van, car
Coventry police charged a Hartford man with reckless driving and unsafely backing up his delivery truck after he pinned a high school student between two vehicles at Coventry High School in December. → Read More
West Hartford police, DEA seize 100 bags of fentanyl, handguns, cash
West Hartford police seized 100 bags of pre-packaged fentanyl, two handguns and over $1,000 in cash, as well as pre-packaged powder cocaine and crystal methamphetamine from a West Hartford home last week, police said Monday. → Read More