In addition to countless tons of iron, Mt. Riga in Salisbury also gave birth to a more curious commodity, a breed of “damned” mountain folk who would become known as The Raggies.

The title of this upcoming film says it all — it’s not everyday that we get to see films starring two cryptozoological creatures battling it out, right?

Like there aren’t plenty of other parents out there who thought for a second, “Wait, you can do this?!”
[May 16, 2009] Readers of Craiglist discovered that an ad offering a free kid was “a joke” perpetrated by a South Windsor man …
Source: NBC 30

Does this officially make Bristol a pig pen?
[May 15, 2009] The mayor of Bristol gave Daisy 2, the new “reading pig,” the key to the city …
Source: Bristol Press

“Pinchey” got pinched without his pants!
[May 15, 2009] An alleged home invader in New Britain lost his pants while trying to flee the scene of the crime …
Source: New Britain Herald

Sadly, this kind of theft happens more than we admit — although it’s usually under the guise of “archaeology.”
[May 14, 2009] A woman recovered a ring stolen from her father’s body after he died in Hartford Hospital as the thief was brought to justice …
Source: Hartford Courant

Gee, pharmaceuticals improperly administered to what should have been a wild animal. How could anything have possibly gone wrong?
[May 14, 2009] Travis the chimp, who viciously attacked and maimed a woman, had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in his system …
Source: Hartford Courant

Peep me once, shame on you; peep me twice, have fun getting violated in jail.
[May 14, 2009] A man was arrested for the second time after he was caught peeping at women over the tops of bathroom stalls in Stamford …
Source: NBC 30

It’s not every day that a little old lady and a pack of angry women with cell phones can stop crime in its tracks.
[May 13, 2009] A purse-snatcher’s attack was thwarted by a 74-year-old woman who refused to let go and a group of woman who surrounded the getaway car . . .
Source: Waterbury Republican-American

You come into possession of a centuries-old actual skeleton — do you display it in the name of science, or bury it in act of human compassion? What to do with a “Fortune” in Waterbury . . .