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Police continue to search for a missing 1-year-old baby girl after finding her mother dead in their Ansonia home Monday night and said they are investigating tips after issuing an Amber Alert for the baby on Wednesday afternoon.

Connecticut State Police have issued an AMBER Alert for a missing 1-year-old baby girl after responding to a home in Ansonia, Connecticut, Monday night and finding the baby’s mother dead and no sign of the child, according to police.

Seven people are dead and seven others are injured after a vintage plane crashed Wednesday morning at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut.

Modified stock car great Michael Stefanik has been killed in a single-engine plane crash. He was 61. State police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Sterling near the Rhode Island state line. They say the single-engine, single-seat Aerolite 103 took off from the Riconn Airport in Coventry, Rhode Island, and had been turning back toward the airfield when it...

Law enforcement officials say two men escaped serious injury when a float plane crashed into Rangeley Lake. Video showed the plane attempting to take off and then losing altitude and splashing into the water on Thursday. The plane came to a rest upside down but the pilot and passenger freed themselves and swam to shore.

The Cessna 303 aircraft departed Orange County Airport Saturday and stopped to refuel at Sky Acres in LaGrangeville. While en route to Farmingdale, it crashed into Gerry Bocker’s house on Smith Road in Union Vale, killing him and injuring one of his two daughters, according to state police.

A Pennsylvania couple is accused of faking the birth and death of a baby to obtain more than $600 in donations and gifts from friends and family.

Comedian Andy Dick says he was assaulted outside a New Orleans nightclub after performing in the French Quarter.

An escaped herd of bison is roaming free in rural upstate New York, grazing in hay fields as the owner works with state police and the Department of Environmental Conservation on a roundup plan. State police say Monday that about 75 bison escaped last week from a farm in Sharon Springs, 45 miles west of Albany. Police are asking anyone...

A 2-year-old girl whose family said wandered away as they prepared to leave a woodland campsite in northern Michigan has been found alive, Michigan State Police said Tuesday morning. Gabriella Roselynn Vitale was reported missing from the campsite in Oscoda County about 8:15 a.m. Monday and her pink coat was found a few hundred yards from where she was last...

State police have charged a Westbrook man who they said is accused of assisting a terminally ill family member commit suicide.

As state police continue to search in a Hartford garbage plant for evidence in the Jennifer Dulos missing person case, we’ve learned some of those clues may have been burned before police had a chance to search.

Nauman Hussain, operator of Prestige Limousine, was released on $450,000 bond after his arraignment in Schoharie County Court.

An 11-year-old is in custody after allegedly killing two adults in a shooting Friday in the Lakes Region town of Alton, New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said Friday night that 50-year-old Lizette Eckert, who had suffered a gunshot wound, was found dead after police responded to a 911 call on Dobbins Way around 7:30 a.m. James Eckert,...

A family of bears is being removed from their den, which is located in the median of a busy Massachusetts highway, according to state police. The westbound and eastbound lanes of Route 2 will be shut down at exits 19 and 20 in Templeton starting at 10 a.m. to allow state environmental police to relocate the family of bears.

A family of bears is being removed from their den, which is located in the median of a busy Massachusetts highway, according to state police. The westbound and eastbound lanes of Route 2 will be shut down at exits 19 and 20 in Templeton starting at 10 a.m. to allow state environmental police to relocate the family of bears.

The mother of a toddler whose disappearance prompted the biggest criminal investigation in Maine history says she’s been unable to locate the father. In a Facebook post that has gone viral, Trista Reynolds wrote that no one can find Justin DiPietro, who reported then-20-month-old Ayla Reynolds missing in 2011 in Waterville. Court documents show DiPietro’s last known address was in...

The mother of a toddler whose disappearance prompted the biggest criminal investigation in Maine history says she’s been unable to locate the father. In a Facebook post that has gone viral, Trista Reynolds wrote that no one can find Justin DiPietro, who reported then-20-month-old Ayla Reynolds missing in 2011 in Waterville. Court documents show DiPietro’s last known address was in...

Police say a New York man faked his own abduction and robbery because he was short of cash owed in a Super Bowl pool.

The half-brother of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, is facing a drunken-driving charge after an arrest in Oregon.
State police said Thomas Wayne Markle Jr. was visibly intoxicated when he was pulled over at about 1:30 a.m. Friday in Josephine County, in southwestern Oregon. Authorities said his blood-alcohol content was 0.11 percent, above the legal limit of 0.08 percent.