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Connecticut: Experience Three of the Four Seasons in 48 Hours

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February 10, 2024

Connecticut: Experience Three of the Four Seasons in 48 Hours

It’s Saturday, February 10, 2024, and it hit 56 degrees in Torrington today. While I was out enjoying this beautiful day, the first perennials – daffodil and hyacinths have sprouted up from the cold ground. Did you get your first flash of Spring Fever like I did? Relax, of course there’s snow on the way within the next 48 hours.

I’m still riding high off the excitement of Chuckles and Punxsutawney Phil’s coordinated effort of an early Spring for us in 2024, and then I turned on my tv. All of the Connecticut news stations have gone into full-hype-mode: We’re going from almost 60 degrees today, to a Winter Storm Watch over the next 48 hours. From the early forecast I can cull from the National Weather Service, a Winter Storm Watch has just been issued for Litchfield County from late Monday night, February 12 through Tuesday evening. Heavy snow is possible, with early predictions of 6 to 9 inches possible, with wind gusts hauling into the 35MPH range.

It’s pretty common to experience the hint of three seasons in the space of 48 hours around here. The worst that I can think of was October 28-30, 2011. It was very warm that October, so much so that the leaves on the trees were just turning color, but we went from 55 degrees to 21 degrees overnight, and were whalloped by a ‘norEaster that dumped 2 feet of snow across Connecticut. We were luckier than most, the incredible amount of powerline damage brought by all of those snow-covered trees was everywhere. Some lost power for 1-2 weeks, and I remember long lines at the gas stations that were able to open.

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CT Auction Features Rare Items from JFK, Einstein and Monroe

NOTE: The internet bidding has reportedly begun for some items and the rest will be auctioned on Feb. 21 at 10:30 a.m.

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The Nacho Masters of Connecticut

Chips, salsa, cheese, what else? It takes a Master to know what goes well with those three base ingredients, and five restaurants around Connecticut have got it down. Here are the Nacho Masters of Connecticut

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State police investigating suspicious incident in Burlington

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January 8, 2026

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State police investigating suspicious incident in Burlington

BURLINGTON, Conn. (WFSB) – Connecticut State Police are investigating a suspicious incident at a residence on Case Road in Burlington.

Multiple state troopers and police vehicles were seen at the home conducting an investigation. A viewer reported seeing nine police cars and numerous troopers at the scene.

State police said there is no threat to the public at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

No additional details about the nature of the suspicious incident have been released.

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Ecuadorian national with manslaughter conviction sentenced for illegally reentering United States through Connecticut

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January 8, 2026

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Ecuadorian national with manslaughter conviction sentenced for illegally reentering United States through Connecticut

NEW HAVEN, CT. (WFSB) – An Ecuadorian national with a manslaughter conviction was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for illegally reentering the United States through Connecticut after being deported.

40-year-old Darwin Francisco Quituizaca-Duchitanga was sentenced and had used the aliases Darwin Duchitanga-Quituizaca and Juan Mendez-Gutierrez.

U.S. Border Patrol first encountered Quituizaca in December 2003, when he used the alias Juan Mendez-Gutierrez and claimed to be a Mexican citizen. He was issued a voluntary return to Mexico.

Connecticut State Police arrested him in March 2018 on charges related to a fatal crash on I-91 in North Haven in March 2017. He was using the alias Darwin Duchitanga-Quituizaca at the time.

ICE arrested him on an administrative warrant in Meriden in August 2018 while he was awaiting trial in his state case. An immigration judge ordered his removal to Ecuador in September 2018, but he was transferred to state custody to face pending charges.

Quituizaca was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in January 2019 and sentenced to 30 months in prison.

After his release, ICE arrested him again on an administrative warrant in Meriden in August 2023. He was removed to Ecuador the next month.

ICE arrested Quituizaca again on a warrant in Meriden on June 28th, 2025, after he illegally reentered the United States. He pleaded guilty to unlawful reentry on July 30th.

He has been detained since his arrest. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigated the case.

The case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative by the Department of Justice to combat illegal immigration and transnational criminal organizations.

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Justice Department sues Connecticut and Arizona as part of effort to get voter data from the states

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January 7, 2026

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Justice Department sues Connecticut and Arizona as part of effort to get voter data from the states

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Officials in Connecticut and Arizona are defending their decision to refuse a request by the U.S. Justice Department for detailed voter information, after their states became the latest to face federal lawsuits over the issue.

“Pound sand,” Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes posted on X, saying the release of the voter records would violate state and federal law.

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced this week it was suing Connecticut and Arizona for failing to comply with its requests, bringing to 23 the number of states the department has sued to obtain the data. It also has filed suit against the District of Columbia.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the department will “continue filing lawsuits to protect American elections,” saying accurate voter rolls are the ”foundation of election integrity.”

Secretaries of state and state attorneys general who have pushed back against the effort say it violates federal privacy law, which protects the sharing of individual data with the government, and would run afoul of their own state laws that restrict what voter information can be released publicly. Some of the data the Justice Department is seeking includes names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers.

Other requests included basic questions about the procedures states use to comply with federal voting laws, while some have been more state-specific. They have referenced perceived inconsistencies from a survey from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Most of the lawsuits target states led by Democrats, who have said they have been unable to get a firm answer about why the Justice Department wants the information and how it plans to use it. Last fall, 10 Democratic secretaries of state sent a letter to the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security expressing concern after DHS said it had received voter data and would enter it into a federal program used to verify citizenship status.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, said his state had tried to “work cooperatively” with the Justice Department to understand the basis for its request for voters’ personal information.

“Rather than communicating productively with us, they rushed to sue,” Tong said Tuesday, after the lawsuit was filed.

Connecticut, he said, “takes its obligations under federal laws very seriously.” He pledged to “vigorously defend the state against this meritless and deeply disappointing lawsuit.”

Two Republican state senators in Connecticut said they welcomed the federal lawsuit. They said a recent absentee ballot scandal in the state’s largest city, Bridgeport, had made the state a “national punchline.”

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