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Torrington, Conn./WTIC Radio - State police are charging a Torrington man with driving the wrong way on Route 8 Sunday afternoon. Troopers say Darwin Perez-Toalongo, 27, was driving south in the northbound lanes near exit 51 just before 4:00 p.m. That's where investigators say he hit another vehicle. There were minor injuries. Troopers say Perez-Toalongo failed field sobriety tests and was arrested. He's charged with reckless driving, OUI, and driving the wrong way on a divided highway.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church’s pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S. military, is condemning the proposed livestream of the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan. Broglio, in a statement Monday, also stipulated that any Catholic soldier assigned to the U.S. Army firing squad should ask to be excused from that duty, which he described as contrary to the teachings of the church.

Bristol, Conn./WTIC Radio - Today marks four years since the deaths of two Bristol police officers, killed in an ambush shooting while answering a call. On October 12, 2022, Lieutenant Dustin DeMonte and Sergeant Alex Hamzy were lured to a Redstone Hill address by a phony 911 call. The two officers, along with Officer Alec Iurato, were shot. DeMonte and Hamzy were killed. Iurato, who was wounded before he shot and killed the suspect, survived.

Hartford Police are investigating a crash Sunday afternoon that killed a man and critically injured another man. Police responded to the area of Cornwall and Manchester Streets around 2 p.m. Sunday on the report of a black Audi that went off the road and crashed into a tree. The two men inside the vehicle were found seriously hurt. Hakeem Bowman, 28, of Hartford, later died at a local hospital. He was the front-seat passenger.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed scrutiny to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the final weeks of her reelection bid.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump must cancel any remaining television commercials paid for with millions of dollars in taxpayer money to promote his political message, a federal judge ordered Sunday night, even as the administration said the ad campaign was coming to an end. U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon in New York sided with a coalition, including the nonpartisan watchdog Common Cause, that challenged the ads and called them an illegal misuse of funds.

FOXBOROUGH, MA (WTIC News) -- Drake Maye’s post-Super Bowl slump is emphatically over. The Patriots' young quarterback used his quick feet to escape trouble and lofted perfect strikes well downfield from start to finish, completing 26 of 34 passes for 374 yards and 4 touchdowns and adding a touchdown run, as the Patriots improved to 3-2 on the year with a dominant 45-17 win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Maye’s 4 touchdown passes matched his previous total for the season.

Hartford, Conn./WTIC Radio - Thousands of runners from around the world descended on Hartford Saturday for the 33rd running of the Eversource Hartford Marathon. Conor Lundy, 28, of Bronxville, New York won in his marathon debut. Lundy finished with a time of 2:17:39. Thirty-four-year-old Rachel Schilkowsky of Providence, RI took the women's crown for the second consecutive year with a winning time of 2:33:54. In addition to the main event, there was a half marathon.

Norwich, Conn./WTIC Radio - A man is under arrest after Norwich police say he kissed a 14-year-old girl as she exited her school bus on Friday. Officers say it was around 3:30 p.m. when they responded to an area of Boswell Street on a report of inappropriate physical contact. The teen told them Joseph Dunion, 68, asked for her phone number. She gave a phony number, police say, after which Dunion kissed her as she attempted to walk away.

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