The story seemed shaky all along, and the schools’ reaction overblown in any case, but now we know that that the intruder story was a lie from the start, according to a story in today’s Courant.
What bothers me most is the police clearly suspected from the start that the incident never happened. They should have expressed [...]
WEST HARTFORD — – The police department will set up a driving-under-the-influence checkpoint Friday evening in the area of New Britain Avenue and Shield Street, department officials said. Police plan to run the checkpoint between 6 p.m. Friday and 2 a.m. Saturday.
This little blurb is in today’s Courant, clearly the result of a press release. [...]
Channel 30 is reporting that police “have identified a ‘person of interest’ who may have approached a 10-year-old fourth grader in the bathroom of Webster Hill Elementary School on Friday. “
The school went into lockdown mode Friday afternoon after the student told a teacher what the man said to him.
“It was something inappropriate,” Lt. Donald Melanson [...]
A recent police blotter printed in The Mirror, the student paper at Fairfield University, contained several noteworthy items, but pay close attention to the second one:
Thursday, March 22
7:00 p.m. Female students in Campion Hall reported items missing from their room over spring break. There are no suspects.
9:19 p.m. A note was left on a student’s [...]
Finally, the Courant has a story you can sink your teeth into.
We learn from today’s paper that in the past month a number of wild turkeys are raising hell near King Philip Drive. According to the paper, “the increasingly brazen birds have surrounded cars on driveways, torn up gardens, chased pedestrians and postal workers and even attacked [...]
Is it the budget? No.
Is it Blue Back Square? No.
It’s just a meeting in May for residents who want to know what they could do to survive should there ever be:
“THE GREAT WEST HARTFORD DISASTER!”
ARE YOU PREPARED?
IF NOT, GET PREPARED!
Join us at a Town Hall meeting on
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Town Council Chambers [...]
Late Sunday night, an off-duty Hartford cop going through a bad breakup shot himself to death in front of his ex-girlfriend outside the Walgreen’s on Farmington Avenue, according to The Hartford Courant.
Yuck. And what a shame.
Blood is sprayed on the apartment walls and flecked across the beige carpet. Bloody smears and handprints stain the hall and a child’s bedroom door. Wide swaths of gore smudge an ivory-colored couch. The phone on a nearby end table is spattered with blood, and there’s more around the corner in the master bedroom.
James Cheyne [...]
One young blogger today details his experience with a recent police encounter that is quite typical of what I hear from many people in town. The police surely do look on the younger generation as likely criminals all too often, and hassle many of them over trivial matters. This is but one small example from somebody [...]
