Connecticut High School Student Dies in Freak Ice Hockey Accident: 'We Have Heavy Hearts'

Photo: Facebook A 10th-grade student from Connecticut has died after suffering an injury to his neck during a junior varsity ice hockey game last week. “There are no words adequate to this moment, and I know all of us will support each other as best as we can,” St. Luke’s Head of School Mark Davis told the community in an email following the accident, according toGreenwich Time. The New Canaan-based schoolcanceled classes on Fridayand announced adelayed start for the school dayon Monday.

Connecticut Lawmakers Are Trying to Make Pizza the Official State Food, Sparking Tri-State Twitter War

Photo: GettyConnecticut lawmakers have started a heated debate after proposing that pizza should become its official state food.Earlier this week, Rep. Patricia Dillon and Sen. Gary Winfieldintroduced a billto recognize Connecticut as the best spot for the cheesy delight.“Pizza is great in Connecticut — it’s super! — and we don’t really have chains. It’s more family-owned restaurants, and it’s a community thing. You don’t eat pizza alone,” Dillon told theNew York Post.

Connecticut Man Arrested After He Allegedly Killed His Daughter's 2-Year-Old Bulldog

Arnaldo Silva.Photo:North Branford Police Department North Branford Police Department A Northford, Connecticut man accused of killing his daughter’s two-year-old bulldog was arrested on Wednesday. Arnaldo Silva was arrested after the North Branford Police Department responded to a report of a possible domestic dispute on Monday night. According to amedia releasefrom the department, a dispatcher from the North Branford Communications Center told officers as they made their way to the scene that Silva, 51, had killed his daughter’s 2-year-old bulldog “with an unknown weapon.

Connecticut Man Had to Amputate Leg After Contracting Flesh-Eating Bacteria Through 'Little Cut'

In June, Bruce Kagan decided to go for a swim at Connecticut’s popular Hammonasset Beach State Park, not thinking twice about a small cut on his right leg he had received at work. But after falling severely ill, on June 30 he was taken to the Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain, where he found out that he had contracted necrotizing fasciitis — a flesh-eating bacteria. “It’s all because of a little cut.

Connecticut Man Is Third Drowning Death This Week Off North Carolina's Outer Banks Coast

Photo: Getty Rough surf conditions have claimed the life of another swimmer in the waters off North Carolina’s Outer Banks, officials said. On Wednesday, a 36-year-old Enfield, Connecticut, man was pronounced dead after apparently drowning off Nags Head Beach,according to CBS affiliate WNCTandABC affiliate WVEC. The swimmer’s death comes one day after a68-year-old manfrom Ohio was found unresponsive in the ocean off southern Hatteras Island and two days after a28-year-old womanfrom Washington, D.