Stanley closing US plant that made its famed yellow tape measures – because its foreign model is more popular The factory’s closure is expected to impact about 300 jobs The Independent UK · May 6
Mom, boyfriend and aunt all arrested after cops find remains of murdered 12-year-old in a container behind abandoned house Investigators have confirmed that the 12-year-old died in the fall of 2024 and that he remains were found in an “advanced state of decomposition” The Independent UK · Oct 14, 2025
Tsunami warning canceled for Papua New Guinea after strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake The shallow quake was centred offshore, 120 miles from island of New Britain The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2025
Woman Convicted for Mass-Mailing Sexual Misconduct Accusations About Former Teacher From State v. Scatton, decided Jan. 30 by Judge Carl Taylor of the Connecticut Supreme Court, New Britain Jud. Dist.… The post Woman Convicted for Mass-Mailing Sexual Misconduct Accusations About Former Teacher appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Feb 14, 2025
Australian Bomber And Crew Identified 80 Years After Crash Australian bomber and air crew members identified after 80 years off Papua New Guinea coast. Wreckage discovered in 2020, with remains confirmed through DN... Top News · Apr 11, 2024
VP Kamala Harris defends abortion rights in Connecticut with US Rep. Jahana Hayes 34 days before election NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — With 34 days before the election, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to New Britain on Wednesday to show her support for the most controversial issue in the divisive campaign — abortion rights. Tribune News Service · Oct 5, 2022
Warrant: Police were already watching arson suspect before synagogue, church fires in Connecticut HARTFORD, Conn. — Even before March 11 fires at a New Britain synagogue and church led to her arrest on arson charges, Kimorah Parker was on the radar of police, according to a warrant for her arrest. Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2022
Connecticut prosecutors close the books on a strange case of murder in a cult State prosecutors have closed the books on the strange, 17-year-old murder of the self-described chief apostle to Brother Julius Schacknow, a Connecticut cult leader who turned his claim to divinity into a multimillion-dollar business and real estate empire in the 1970s and ‘80s. Tribune News Service · Feb 3, 2022