This is one ornery bird!
[March 4, 2010] Stonington police are on the lookout for a red-tailed hawk that has attacked at least five people, including a woman, who had to be hospitalized for facial lacerations …
Source: Hartford Courant

Sad that it only came back because someone was obviously worried about where they might be headed after they died.
[March 3, 2010] A sign that had hung at Greenwich Country Day School was returned 43 years after it had been stolen, apparently as a final wish of an alumnus who had stolen it and was dying …
Source: Connecticut Post

Maybe they’re hanging out with those white-nosed bats?
[March 1, 2010] The state population of chimney swifts — key birds in terms of insect control — has been declining mysteriously and, well, swiftly …
Source: Connecticut Post

Sort of surprised they haven’t been there already.
[February 24, 2010] Syfy’s “Ghost Hunters” team have reached an agreement to investigate the long-abandoned former Norwich State Hospital property in Preston …
Source: Norwich Bulletin

Instead of an amber alert, do they post a bronze alert?
[February 24, 2010] A historic bronze statue of a life-sized woman was taken from a grave in Norwich’s Yantic Cemetery …
Source: New London Day

Sounds like they’re trying to milk the headlines! Seems udderly ridiculous.
[February 23, 2010] The Suffield chapter of FFA created a 40-foot-long bar of soap made from 30 pounds of goat’s milk and other ingredients, which may be the longest bar of goat soap in the world …
Source: Hartford Courant

Uh … this sounds a little contrived, doesn’t it? “Dude, the cops are here, so act like we’re so totally wasted!”
[February 22, 2010] Manchester police have arrested two men who claim that they were shooting at people they thought were following them but may have only been hallucinations …
Source: Hartford Courant

This is still one of the most unusual — and still technically unsolved — murders in Connecticut history.
[February 21, 2010] The FBI formally closed the September 2001 anthrax murder case, concluding yet never actually proving that Dr. Bruce Ivins was responsible for sending anthrax spores through the mail that killed five, including 94-year-old Ottilie Lundgren of Oxford …
Source: Connecticut Post

[*Insert "wah wah wahhhhh" trombone*]
[February 20, 2010] An East Lyme man was arrested after police caught him trying to recover a coin collection he had stolen and then hidden in a storm drain …
Source: New London Day

At least the man didn’t try to get into bed with the homeowner!
[February 19, 2010] A Lisbon homeowner was surprised on Wednesday night to find a heavily intoxicated stranger asleep on his bedroom floor …
Source: New London Day