Newington, CT

Newington police have charged a man with multiple offenses, including child sex abuse, after extraditing him from Canada.

The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General has released new details about a deadly exchange of gunfire in Newington that left two police officers wounded and a suspect dead following a pursuit from Hartford last week. The suspect who was killed has now been identified as 37-year-old Hector Perez. Officers in Hartford were investigating illegal activity on Fales Street and Sission Avenue around 11 p.m. on Friday. They received a report that someone took out a small gun and th

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Ricky Leupold and his barbershop team from Newington provide free haircuts to students in New Britain each year.

Two police officers were shot and a suspect is dead after a pursuit that started in Hartford ended in Newington overnight. Officers in Hartford were investigating illegal activity on Fales Street around 11 p.m. Friday when a male suspect fled on foot. A Hartford police officer attempted to take the suspect into custody and during the struggle, authorities said the officer felt what appeared to be a firearm in the suspect’s waistband. The suspect then reportedly entered

Hartford police are raising concerns about staffing and calling for more support from the city and state after a weekend shooting left one man dead and four other people injured. The shooting happened around 1:40 a.m. on Sunday in the 700 block of Wethersfield Avenue. Police identified the man killed as 31-year-old Joseph Texidor of Newington. Four other people were injured. The people who were injured include a man in his 30s, a man in his 20s, another man in his 30s, and an adu

The National Iwo Jima Memorial on the Newington and New Britain town line is closed until further notice after sustaining significant storm damage Friday night, according to the memorial. A fallen tree brought down power lines, damaged a guardrail in the parking lot, and caused the memorial’s Eternal Flame to go out, the memorial said. “The eternal flame has been out, probably for the first time since 1995, when it was dedicated,” said Elaine Schieffer, a member of