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Mar. 16, 2025

Conn. Farmer Finds TikTok Fame Collecting Tiny Fashionable Hats for His Quail 'Best Friends'

Photo: SWNS (2) Bernard Henry, 28, has 52 themed bonnets for his Mearns quails. The birds are named Finn, Quinn, Jake, and Daisy. Henry started raising birds when he was 17 and has 150 feathered friends, including peacocks, chickens, ducks, and button quails, roaming around his Connecticut farm. The Mearns quails have separate lodgings from the rest of the farm’s birds. Finn, Quinn, Jake, and Daisy stay close to Henry, residing in their own room in the farmer’s house.

Mar. 16, 2025

Conn. Farmer Known for Art Displays Seriously Burned After Pants Catch Fire in ‘Freak Accident’

Billy Beaumont of Wallingford, Connecticut.Photo:Go Fund Me Go Fund Me A Connecticut farmer has returned home for the first time in three weeks after he was burned in what family friends describe as a “freak accident.” The 64-year-old inadvertently splashed gasoline on his pant leg before starting up his tractor, which caused a spark that ignited the blaze, theNew Haven Registerand theRecord-Journalreported. He was eventually transported to Bridgeport Hospital, where he received “life saving treatment” for the “significant burns” and blood clots that resulted from the incident, the Lohmanns said.

Mar. 16, 2025

Conn. Girl Was Raped, Killed on Way Home From School in 1986 — and Suspect Was Just Arrested

Photo: Norwalk Police Department A Maine man has been arrested in the 1986 murder of an 11-year-old Connecticut girl he allegedly attacked as she walked home from school. On June 12, Marc Karun, 53, was arrested outside his Stetson, Maine, home, the Norwalk Police Department announced during a press conference. He was extradited back to Connecticut and is charged with first-degree kidnapping and murder with special circumstances. Karun, who is a registered sex offender in Maine, is accused of murdering 11-year-old Kathleen Flynn.

Mar. 16, 2025

Conn. Girl, 12, Dead After Being Shot in the Head During Drive-by Shooting: 'Very Tragic'

Generic police lights and yellow police tape at crime scene.Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto Pierce was sitting in a parked car and was shot in the head and abdomen during the incident in which three other men were injured, police said. The men were walking alongside a street when a moving car fired on them, seriously injuring an 18-year-old in the group, according to authorities. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?

Mar. 16, 2025

Conn. Girl, 12, Killed by Gunfire Near Where Her Dad Was Fatally Shot More Than 10 Years Ago

Photo: gofundme Pierce was reportedly sitting in a parked car and was shot in the head and abdomen during the incident in which three other men were injured, police said. The men, whose names have not been released, were walking alongside a street when a moving car fired at them, seriously injuring an 18-year-old in the group, according to authorities. Two other males, ages 16 and 23, also sustained non-life-threatening injuries,NBC Connecticutreported.