Investigations

We’ve heard about drinking and driving…and texting and driving…but voting and driving? That’s what NBC Connecticut Investigates appeared to have found during a few hybrid state legislative hearings, conducted both in-person and on the Zoom video conferencing platform in April. All three of the legislators that appeared to vote and drive...

Senate Bill 1436 has caused alarm in the Freedom of Information, or FOI, community. It has an exemption to our state’s FOI Act that would forbid releasing complaints against a police or correction officer until they’re “investigated and adjudicated by the proper legal authority.” The Police Officers Association of Connecticut said at a hearing on t...

Hartford’s XL Center will not host any games, concerts or other events this summer.  As of May 20, the XL Center on Trumbull Street is closed for construction.  The arena overhaul is more than a decade in the making.   “This is our troubled child of all the properties we manage,” said Michael Freimuth, executive director of the ...

Imagine spending 30 years in prison for something you didn’t do. It was a reality for two Connecticut men. We featured some of their stories in the NBC CT Investigates original documentary, Traces of Doubt: The Forensics of Dr. Henry Lee. Now Shawn Henning, who now lives out of state, is sharing his story in his first sit-down interview since&#8230...

Our NBC Connecticut Investigates series “Reckless On Our Roads” has examined everything from wrong-way drivers, to stop sign runners, to a community that eliminated traffic deaths eight years in a row. Transportation experts have said speed, however, accounts for a third of all traffic fatalities. In Connecticut, we have seen people driving fa...

Connecticut families tell us they are feeling the strain of high prices. We spoke with some savvy shoppers who have some tips to save wherever possible. “We use what we have,” Keisha Taylor-Davis, of New Haven, said. Taylor-Davis may as well be a grocery shopping expert. She works diligently to navigate skyrocketing prices to feed her family....

An independent investigation by the City of Hartford found there is no evidence the superintendent of schools asked an employee for a favor, even though the now-former employee said it’s what caused her to be fired. The former employee, Janet Serrano, worked in human resources. Serrano spoke at the school board meeting in February about an alleged ...

Nearly 90,000 students across our state are in special education and for some parents, getting their children into those programs can be daunting. For a Newington mother, it’s been a frustrating process with no clear resolution. For Lai Ping Wong Coppinger, making sure her son succeeded in school was her top priority. “He was already doing third gr...

Slightly more people are leaving Connecticut than moving in, according to data just released by U-Haul. Every year, U-Haul tracks one-way trips both into and out of all 50 states. In 2024, Connecticut was pretty far down on the list for growth – at 41. And we actually moved up one spot from the previous year. According to U-Haul, people…...

Right now, a jury is deciding if two former New Milford police detectives violated Ricky Birch’s rights to a fair trial. Birch, now 58, was wrongfully convicted of murder in his teens, spending most of his adult life behind bars. If found liable, Birch’s lawyers are asking for more than $50 million in damages. That amounts to $5,000 a day…...

Selina Gomez, 24, turned herself in to Hartford police after learning she would be charged in a serious crash involving a firetruck on Jan. 2. NBC Connecticut Investigates obtained exclusive video of that crash. None of the four firefighters on board were hurt. Police determined Gomez drove her car approximately 44 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone, ...

A former police officer being sued by a man wrongfully convicted in his teens testified in the civil trial Wednesday. A lawyer for former New Milford detective Steven Jordan said he, the late detective David Shortt and the New Milford Police Department handled their responsibilities appropriately during the murder investigation that led to Ricky Bi...