Stories that make you wonder… October 14, 2008

We report dozens of stories everyday and so many of them raise questions.    Take for example, Friday’s robbery of the Sovereign Bank on the Boulevard in West Hartford.    We cover bank robberies all the time, but this one was different.
It was the 5th time it was robbed in two years!!   
The questions raised: 
1.  How do tellers [...]

Help authorities find this man May 2, 2007

Our next installment of our phenomenally popular “Fugitive Files” on Eyewitness News will focus on a high-profile murder from 20 years ago.
Watch Jamie Roth’s Video Report
On March 22, 1987, Peter Carone, 29, was watching college basketball at the Prospect Cafe in West Hartford. Also there: Adam Zachs, 22, of Bloomfield. They didn’t know each other [...]

Nutmeg Names: Tom Meskill December 18, 2006

The country was trying to get out of the Vietnam War, the Baltimore Colts were Super Bowl champs and Three Dog Night topped the charts with “Joy to the World.”

The year was 1971 and Tom Meskill was beginning his term as governor of Connecticut.
Some 35 years later, I sat down with the former governor to [...]

Nutmeg Names: Ann Uccello December 2, 2006

This Saturday, Eyewitness News kicks off a new and, hopefully, somewhat regular feature: Nutmeg Names.
We are going to take a look at some local folks who have made a mark on Connecticut.

First up, former Hartford Mayor Ann Uccello. In 1967, she became the first woman elected mayor of our capital city, and the first woman [...]

Jaywalking November 4, 2006

Anyone who commutes to downtown Hartford will want to see my report on jaywalking Monday night at 11. Anyone who walks through downtownshould watch it. Yes, even the jaywalkers should see it.
Every day, jaywalkers create traffic jams. How? When the light isgreen — and the bright orange hand indicates to pedestrians they should stay put [...]