You’ve probably been spending most of your evening TV viewing time watching the Summer Olympics, but if you’ve caught any episodes of Jeopardy lately you may have seen Yale University PhD student Matthew Amodio on his crazy eight-day winning streak. He won again Monday night with a $19,200 payout. Bringing his grand total so far up…
Crazy story out of Atlanta that will make you smile. A 66-year-old guy in Atlanta named Tonee Carter has been playing piano at the Atlanta airport to give people a little mood music as they wait at the gate or during their layover. Recently while he was playing a popular motivational speaker named Carlos Whittaker…
Big win today for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team at the Summer Olympics today as they defeated The Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty kick shoot out to advance the to Semifinal round. Connecticut should be proud as Stratford’s very own Alyssa Naeher, the USWNT goalie, made two HUGE saves during the shoot-out to secure…
Stories like this are great for teaching us that it’s always smart to do the right thing when you find any sort of money or belongings someone may have lost. 23-year-old Gabrielle Perry from Westport recently found a card on the ground with $500 inside of it. She was heading to dinner in South Norwalk…
This has probably happened to you at some point in all the years you’ve been driving. You see the police lights behind you, immediately panic, go through your mental checklist of “what was I doing” realize you were going the speed limit… didn’t blow a stop sign… everything is up to date… “so why are…
We are quickly coming up on the 20 year anniversary of 9/11. Crazy that it’s already been TWENTY YEARS since that awful day. A lot of people will be honoring the victims and paying tribute in their own special ways. This one 62-year-old former flight attendant named Paul Veneto will be doing something really cool.…
There’s always that one thing from your wedding day that you wish had gone differently. Imagine if your wedding video footage was completely erased?! That’s exactly what happened to this couple… or so they thought… Drew and Kayla Gottfried who live in Oregon got married 14 years ago. They found out after their honeymoon from…
This is a police story you don’t hear every day. Police officers in Nashville pulled over a guy because his brake lights were out. When they looked up his name and registration they found he was actually wanted for stalking and harassment so they arrested him. Then they realized something interesting in his car. It…
If you’ve ever had to pay off student loans you know how CRUSHING and stressful that can be. Especially for students over this past year or so during the pandemic. Connecticut state colleges and universities just announced they are forgiving $17 million in student loans which will help over 18,000 kids in the state who…
Ever since the pandemic started people have picked up a lot of skills they never had before. Whether it’s cooking, doing your own podcast, arts and crafts, or starting a viral book reading club on Facebook. An 83-year-old grandmother in Iowa who goes by the name “Grandma Bette” has done exactly that. She reads children’s…