Bloomfield

A camp designed to teach teenage girls about the values of firefighters is underway in Bloomfield. It is called the Girls Future Firefighter Camp. Organizers said they teach the young ladies to be disciplined, courageous, and team players, whether they choose firefighting as their future career or not. It is no secret that firefighting takes a lot of grit, hard…

A camp designed to teach teenage girls about the values of firefighters is underway in Bloomfield. It is called the Girls Future Firefighter Camp. 

A 24-year-old man was killed in a shooting during a fight at a party in Bloomfield on Saturday evening. Police said officers found Keyandre Hightower, of Bloomfield, with a gunshot wound to the neck when they responded to Evan Lane around 7:40 p.m. Saturday to investigate a shooting. A 17-year-old from Bloomfield was identified as a suspect and has been…

A man has died after a shooting during a fight at a party in Bloomfield on Saturday evening. Officers responded to Evan Lane around 7:40 p.m. for a report of a shooting. Once at the scene, they said they learned a 24-year-old man from Bloomfield had been shot in the neck. CPR was administered and the man was later pronounced…

A man has died after crashing his motorcycle in Bloomfield early Saturday morning. The crash happened at the intersection of Blue Hills Avenue and East Dudley Town Road around 2:15 a.m. It was reported to dispatchers that a motorcycle was on the lawn of the business at the intersection. In the area, officers said they found a severely damaged motorcycle…

A magnet school in Bloomfield was evacuated Friday morning due to a bomb threat, according to police. Officers responded to the Global Experience Magnet School on South Griffin Road around 8:15 a.m. after school security noticed some graffiti in a bathroom that was percieved as a bomb threat, police said. The school was evacuated. The Hartford police explosive detection K9…

Over 600 girls participated in a 5K to honor the four children killed in a house fire in Somers earlier this year.

It’s been almost five months since a devastating fire tore through a home in Somers and took the lives of four young children. One of those kids was nine-year-old Genevieve Koropatkin, who loved to run. On Saturday morning, Girls on the Run of Greater Connecticut hosted a 5K in memory of her and her three brothers: Archer, 5; Benjamin, 7;…

Multiple tractor-trailers were involved in a fire in Bloomfield on Saturday. Fire officials said there were three tractor-trailers on fire on Central Avenue. State Dept. of Energy and Environmental protection officials said the three tractor-trailers that caught on fire were parked. All of them were refrigerated trucks and did not have any cargo inside. It appears that the fire started…

Multiple people reportedly walked into a gas station in Bloomfield early Monday morning and stole the cash registers before fleeing the area. Officers responded to the Shell gas station on Blue Hills Avenue around 3:30 a.m. for a report of a larceny. Authorities said three people wearing masks and gloves entered the store. They immediately walked behind the counter and…

An 86-year-old man that was reported missing from Bloomfield over the weekend has been found. The man’s family reported him missing on Sunday. He lives in Bloomfield, but is known to travel into Hartford. It’s unclear where he was found.

A pedestrian has been taken to the hospital with injuries after being hit by a car in Bloomfield Monday night. Police responded to the area of Cottage Grove Road and Tyler Street for a reported pedestrian crash at about 6:20 p.m. Responding officers found a man lying in the road. The man, who is in his 40s, was breathing, but…

Students at Carmen Arace Middle School in Bloomfield are being taught to run and read like athletes. The 2-day football clinic is being led by former Baltimore Ravens player and Bloomfield native Matthew Lawrence.

Officers who responded for a welfare check at a home in Bloomfield Sunday night found the house engulfed in flames and firefighters later found a 21-year-old dead inside, according to police. Police said someone went to the police department around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, concerned about the welfare of a man. Officers went to a home on Alexander Road and…

One person has died after a house fire in Bloomfield late Sunday night.

The Bloomfield Board of Education has officially appointed a new acting superintendent after the current superintendent took an abrupt leave of absence. In a meeting on Tuesday night, the board said Dr. Bethany Silver will serve as the district’s acting superintendent. It comes as the district considers termination of Superintendent James Thompson. The school district said Thompson “has abruptly...

The suspect in a homicide in Bloomfield in December who was located in Arizona is being brought back to Connecticut. Bloomfield police said 29-year-old Devonte Swaby, of Arizona, is suspected in the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Timothy Ross, of Bloomfield, on Bloomfield Avenue on the morning of Dec. 4.   Police obtained a warrant on Dec. 12 for Swaby and…

There are new details about a move by Bloomfield’s Board of Education to consider the termination of its superintendent of schools. NBC Connecticut Investigates has obtained documents that indicate superintendent James Thompson signed an agreement in May that laid out a retirement plan, that some town leaders say they should have signed off on. Town officials familiar with the...

A rescue shelter in Bloomfield was busy right before the new year. On Saturday, they welcomed 45 adoptable dogs from out of state. “I think overall people are seeing the need for families to adopt homeless pets and a lot of people just want to welcome another four-legged friend in general,” said Hayley Haspeslagh. Haspeslagh is in charge of the…

U.S. Marshals have arrested a man wanted in connection to a deadly shooting in Bloomfield that happened on Dec. 4. Authorities found Devante Swaby, 29, in Peoria, Arizona, on Friday after he allegedly fled the state to avoid arrest. Timothy Ross, 31, of Bloomfield, was shot on Bloomfield Avenue, near Cottage Grove Road, around 8:50 a.m. Earlier this week, police…