Who survives a 200-foot fall off a mountain?
[February 6, 2012] Emergency responders rescued an 18-year-old hiker who had fallen 200 feet off of “the chin” of Sleeping Giant and survived …
Source: Hartford Courant

An oddities and curiosities shop in Wallingford? Try to keep us away.

Seems to be more a fight about money than religion, as usual.
[February 5, 2012] The Catholic diocese of Norwich is claiming that an Ashland “monastery” and the “nuns” who live there are nothing of the sort …
Source: Hartford Courant

People suck.
[February 4, 2012] A large stone containing a fossilized dinosaur footprint was stolen from a Portland quarry in July, and is still missing …
Source: Hartford Courant

Cleanliness is next to crimeliness.
[February 3, 2012] A man who had been recently incarcerated was arrested after he broke into an apartment, took a shower and left behind his prison clothes …
Source: Connecticut Post

Probably didn’t even have a chance to hit the snooze button.
[January 31, 2012] A New Haven man who had been asleep in his bed was injured after being pinned under a car that had come crashing through the wall of his house during a police chase …
Source: Hartford Courant

The real curiosity here: What 4-year-old packs their own snack?
[January 26, 2012] Police were called to a Meriden school after a 4-year-old pulled out nine individually wrapped bags of marijuana during snack time …
Source: Connecticut Post

This is hard to swallow.
[January 25, 2012] A Bridgeport man has been arrested for allegedly murdering another man with an axe and then eating his victim’s eyeball and brains …
Source: Hartford Courant

Wonder how many strokes she was giving?
[January 23, 2012] A Hartford woman wielding a golf club came to the rescue of a young man being assaulted by three teens …
Source: Hartford Courant

Better safe than sorry, right?
[January 20, 2012] A Connecticut man is running a website to warn state residents about the possibilities of mountain lions in the region …
Source: NBC 30