“Ta-daa!” [September 13, 2009] A three-year-old girl got up and walked away essentially unharmed after falling from a third-floor window of her Waterbury home … Source: Waterbury Republican-American
Weird News
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Sounds like a future episode of “Up All Night.” [January 13, 2012] A two-year-old New Haven boy had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell eight feet into a hot air …
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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 …
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You can’t be charged with murder for killing the dead, right? [September 3, 2018] A Tolland man who claims to be a paranormal investigator faces charges after being arrested for firing several …
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Two tornadoes in one month? Call the stormchasers! And this was only about two miles from where I live. [August 1, 2009] The U.S. Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado touched …
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Beginning to think that tornadoes in Connecticut aren’t all that unusual any more. [July 23, 2010] A tornado touched down in Bristol, Litchfield, Thomaston and Terryville earlier this week according to the …
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It’s all fun and games until someone’s brains get eaten. [May 22, 2011] Torrington mayor Ryan Bingham was abducted by zombies as part of a fund-raising zombie crawl … Source: Waterbury Republican-American
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Finally, something productive from a traffic jam. [December 22, 2009] A car thief was apprehended by police in Manchester after he was thwarted by holiday traffic at the Buckland Hills Mall … …
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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, …
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Another chapter of this sad, gruesome and bizarre tale comes to a close. [May 26, 2010] Sandra Herold, the owner of the Travis the chimp who savagely mauled Charla Nash in February …
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But is it good eatin’? [August 3, 2011] Two fishermen on Lake Winfield in Plymouth reeled in a pacu, a foot-long tropical fish with teeth related to a piranha and native to …
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“No, I swear, officer, it was there when I opened it up!” “Uh-huh. Come on, we’re going for a ride downtown.” [April 18, 2009] The driver of a tractor-trailer discovered a dead …