WATERBRUY, Conn. (WFSB) – A Waterbury Public Schools teacher accused of sending inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old student is due in court Tuesday morning. Philip Hughes, 42, was arrested last month and posted a $50,000 bond. He is charged in connection with messages sent to a student through a band communication app and text messages. …
OXFORD, CT (WFSB) – A school in Oxford closed on Monday for mold mediation and cleaning, district officials announced. The Quaker Farms School had mold in two classrooms. School officials said one was the school’s computer lab while the other was room 320. “Both rooms will be retested by EnviroMed [Monday] morning,” district leaders said …
(WFSB) – Nearly 3,800 Eversource customers across the state were without power as of Monday morning, with some towns reporting outages affecting nearly a third of all customers. Eversource reported 3,787 outages statewide out of 1,310,282 total customers, representing 0.29% of its service area. United Illuminating reported 13 outages affecting customers as of 2:30 a.m. …