The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Charla Nash says she still can't remember the brutal attack by a chimpanzee that tore off her face and hands and blinded her on Feb. 16, 2009 -- but she recalls the moment she finally heard a recording of the horrifying 911 call from that day.

People around the world have heard the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold, pleading on that recording with a dispatcher to "send the police up with a gun" to shoot her rampaging, 200-pound pet, Travis, but when Nash heard it on the news, what caught her ear wasn't Herold's frantic voice.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The 600 footprints from the Jurassic period displayed beneath a domed exhibit center at Dinosaur State Park tell only part of their story.

Beneath the ground just east of the exhibit center, hidden from public view, lie another 1,500 tracks.

Originally uncovered and cataloged when the footprint trackway was discovered amid worldwide acclaim in August 1966, the tracks were reburied in 1976 to protect them from the ravages of water and weather.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Police and U.S. Marshals in Florida have taken a former Connecticut resident into custody on charges that he used an ax to kill a man, then ate a portion of his victim's brain and one of his eyeballs.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The way we use fluoride hasn't changed much since the mid 20th century, but a new Yale University study could change that.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Jane Pulcini was walking up the stairs in her Newington, Conn., home Sunday around 11 a.m. when Hurricane Irene split an oak tree in her front yard, crashing a huge limb into the roof.

"So I'm going up the stairs, and I thought I heard thunder," said Pulcini, who raised five sons in the house and lived there with her husband, Guido "Guy" Pulcini, until he died a year and a half ago. "The noise was so loud, I just couldn't imagine what it was."

Sitting on the stairs of her 1960s split-level Garrison colonial, she could see the tree through a front window. Since moving to the home in 1963, she has filed three insurance claims. Two were this year -- one for ice damming on the roof last winter and now the oak tree. Pulcini had just put on a new room in July.

"Why couldn't the tree fall toward the street?" she said.

By Tuesday, Scott Wallquist, a claims adjuster with The Travelers Cos., was walking on her roof, measuring the square footage and surveying the damage. Front and back gutters would need to be replaced, she would need a new roof, and he plans to hire an inspector to see if the chimney still intact.