An Astoria man wanted for questioning regarding the vicious bludgeoning of his wife, special needs teacher Tara Hawes, was captured in Connecticut Sunday. Jordan Hawes had been on the lam since last week. Hawes, who has not been charged with any crime, is reportedly being held in a psychiatric ward in a Connecticut hospital. more ›

Connecticut police say that a man used a computer tablet to take photographs up a woman's skirt at the Target store in South Windsor. Creepily bold! more ›

With four police officers charged with violating the civil rights of Latino community members, through harassment, intimidation and physical violence, East Haven police chief Len Gallo has stepped down effective last Friday. The Courant reports that Mayor Joe Maturo, who famously said he "might have tacos" as a way to reach out to the Latino community, is forming a search committee for a replacement and called Gallo's resignation an "unselfish act." Well, is it really unselfish when Gallo is "an unnamed co-conspirator in last week's federal indictment"? more ›

Two days after telling a TV reporter that he would reach out to the Latino community by maybe having some tacos, East Haven, Connecticut mayor Joe Maturo is still getting criticized. Yesterday, the Hartford Courant called for his resignation in an editorial, "The Mayor Is An Idiot," and today, the NY Times has an editorial, "An Outrage in East Haven," asking for the same. more ›

Connecticut police arrested a 38-year-old woman for risk of injury to a minor for leaving her five-year-old son in a casino hotel room so she could gamble. And police found out what happened because her son called 911. more ›

So you know how East Haven, CT mayor Joe Maturo's plan for reaching out the Latino community, which has been intimidated by the local police for years (well, at least according to the Department of Justice's investigation), was to go and have some tacos? Well, activists just sent his office 500 tacos. more ›

Yesterday, the Department of Justice charged four East Haven, Connecticut police officers with "conspiring to violate, and violating, the civil rights" of Latinos: Sergeant John Miller and Officers David Cari, Dennis Spaulding and Jason Zullo are accused of "conspir[ing] to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate various members of the East Haven community in violation of their constitutional rights... In some cases, the victims were handcuffed with their hands behind their backs when officers assaulted them." And what was the East Haven mayor's reaction? It's time for some Mexican grub! more ›

Small children simulating the throes of alcoholism is guaranteed viral GOLD. But society is less kind to kids with kind, even if they have no idea what they'd do with it. A 4-year-old boy brought nine bags of marijuana, which according to CBS "appeared to be wrapped for sale," to his pre-kindergarten class in Meriden, Connecticut yesterday. "Our concern is for the 4-year-old student, who had no knowledge of what he was bringing to school," Superintendent Mark Benigni said. Oh really? Then why he'd pull them out at snack time? more ›

Today, the NY Times publishes a terribly sad photograph of the three little girls who died inside their Stamford, Connecticut home during a Christmas Day fire. In the picture, the girls, 7-year-old twins Grace and Sarah and 9-year-old Lily, are with their father Matthew Badger, smiling and happy. According to the Times, funeral arrangements are still being made, but it's expected that they will take place next week. The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home's vice-president, Dominic Carella, said the girls would be placed in individual coffins. more ›

The Christmas morning fire that ripped through a three-story Victorian home in Stamford, Connecticut, killed three girls—7-year-old twins and their 9-year-old sister—and their grandparents. The home on Shippan Avenue was owned by fashion advertising executive Madonna Badger, who managed to escape the blaze and was overhead screaming, "My whole life is in that house!" more ›

A fire that broke out in the early morning in an exclusive Stamford, Connecticut neighborhood has claimed the lives of three children and two adults. Stamford mayor Michael Pavia told reporters, "It’s a terrible, terrible day for the city of Stamford. There probably has not been a worse Christmas day in the city of Stamford." Update, 12/26: The victims were the three daughters and parents of homeowner Madonna Badger. more ›

Talk about milking a story for all it's worth: police captured a 400-pound runaway cow who has been on the lam for the past five months. According to FoxCT, it took 15 people to capture Wanda the runaway cow at a farm in Oxford, CT yesterday. The steaks were high for those involved, who did everything they could to steer clear of hurting the animal, who had escaped capture twice before thanks to her deer friends! more ›

A jury condemned Joshua Komisarjevsy, the second man who was found guilty of killing a Connecticut mother and her two daughters during a horrific 2007 home invasion, to death today. It took five days for the jury to decide that the 31-year-old Komisarjevsky would receive the death penalty, the same fate as his accomplice Steven Hayes, who was given the death penalty for the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. "I guess I will spend the rest of my life wondering what I could have done or said to persuade the jurors mercy should have seasoned justice in this case," said Jeremiah Donovan, one of Komisarjevsky's defense lawyers. more ›

One of the more uncommon ways to get caught after six years on the lam for violating one's parole? Save a suicidal teenager from drowning and rescue a police officer stuck in the mud. That at least is how 49-year-old Michael Rogers, convicted in 2001 on four counts of child molestation in Georgia, was caught this week in Connecticut. He is currently being held in lieu of a $200,000 bail in Connecticut while Georgia seeks to extradite him. more ›

The story of the three very lucky Greenwich, Connecticut wealth managers winning the $254 million Powerball has turned from a "Rich Get Richer" story to a possible "Rich Protect The Richer" mystery when one man claimed the trio were fronting for a client. But the three men's trust, the Putnam Avenue Family Trust, issued a statement, "There has been much speculation and quite a bit of misinformation over the last 24 hours... To be clear, there are a total of three trustees and there is no anonymous fourth participant." more ›

Yesterday, Powerball lottery players found out that the lucky winner of the $254 million drawing on November 2 turned out to be three wealth managers from Greenwich, Connecticut. Greg Skidmore, Brandon Lacoff and Tim Davidson opted to take a $104 million lump sum payout (the giant check was made out to the Putnam Avenue Family Trust), which is $22 million more than the total client money they manage at Belpointe Asset Management. Their lawyer did most of the talking for them at the press conference, giving few details... which opened the door for an alleged family friend of Lacoff's to tell the Daily Mail that the trio are fronting for a client who actually won the jackpot. more ›

The 12th biggest Powerball lottery was November 2nd's $254 million jackpot, and the winning number came up in Connecticut. Today, the winners stepped forward and it turns out they are Greenwich-based wealth managers who formed a trust to protect their winnings. According to the Hartford Courant, "At a press conference at lottery headquarters, an attorney for the trust said one of the men, Tim Davidson, has purchased a single $1 ticket at a Stamford gas station. Jason Kurland, the attorney, declined to discuss the relationship among the men, other than to say they all work at Belpointe LLC, which described itself on its website as offering wealth management, real estate and legal services." more ›

This weekend a Yale student struck three people, killing one, with a U-Haul at the Yale-Harvard Football game in New Haven and, though no charges have been filed, his lawyer is now trying to shift the blame to the vehicle. Meanwhile the victim's mom just wants her baby's body back. more ›

One woman was killed, and two others were injured after a U-Haul van crashed into a crowd tailgating before the Yale-Harvard Football game today. According to police, a 30-year-old Massachusetts woman was killed in the accident just after 10 a.m. this morning in a parking lot at Yale. Police spokesman David Hartman confirmed the other two female victims are hospitalized—one in critical but stable condition, and the other with minor injuries. Update: Watch video of the aftermath of the accident below. more ›

According to a new poll conducted by the Siena Research Institute [pdf], 72% of voting New Yorkers favor hiking taxes on those making $1 million or more annually. 83% of Democrats support the measure, but 70% of independents and 55% of Republicans do as well. “It is supported by more than two-thirds of voters from every region of the state," pollster Steven Greenberg says. So why is Governor Cuomo death threats or no, still opposed to extending New York's so-called "Millionaire's Tax?" more ›

Our diminutive billionaire mayor from Boston likes to recruit wealthy folk to come work in his administration, and they seem to like the challenge (we miss your antics, Cathie Black!). But apparently they aren't so big on actually, y'know, living in the Big Apple. Take Robert Steel: he's been our deputy mayor for economic development since August 2010, takes a $1 salary, and has a four-bedroom Chelsea apartment. But as far as Daily News reporters can tell he's really more Greenwich, Connecticut than Greenwich Village. After all, why stay in a luxury apartment near noisy streets when you can relax with your wife in a "five-bedroom, five-bath, 7,438-square-foot manor—tucked into 7 acres of rolling hills?" more ›

Now that unemployment and poverty rates are sky high, why not open a few casinos? The Post reports that both parties agree: legalized gambling should happen. It'll give people a chance to discover a new rock-bottom get back on their feet, inject some cash into the state's austere budget, and finally allow us to knock Native Americans out of the one position of power that they currently hold. Everybody wins! more ›