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With 35 homicides as of mid-December, 2021 has been an exceptionally deadly year for Hartford. Homicides increased 40% from 2020, when the year ended with 25 murders. In fact, the capital city had more killings this year than it had in more than a decade.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought student storm-chasing trips to a halt over the past year for SUNY Oswego in New York state, but some professors are carrying on the tradition of following storms through the Plains, and AccuWeather's Lincoln Riddle was there to ride along with them and experience storm chasing firsthand. Scott Steiger, professor of meteorology at SUNY Oswego, has been leading student trips to the Plains every spring since...
Detectives continue to work tirelessly to find the people who gunned down two boys, ages 16 and 3, in separate weekend shootings in Hartford, police say.