Amanda Pitts
Reporter at WVIT-TV (West Hartford, CT)
Reporter for NBC CT 🦚 Previously @wpri12, @abc6, @wicztv
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1 week ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
A new mural in Wethersfield honors two hometown heroes whose lives came to a tragic end. Det. Bobby Garten and Wethersfield firefighter Robert "Sharkey" Sharkevich are now memorialized on the outside of the 9/11 Memorial Sports Center at the Pitkin Community Center in Wethersfield.
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1 week ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
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2 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
An Ellington man was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison Friday for the overdose death of his friend in 2023. Charles Lewis plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter, admitting to selling Nick Tsonas, 24, a lethal batch of fentanyl while Tsonas was visiting home from his sober living facility. Tsonas was 90 days sober when he relapsed and had recently been released from rehab, his family said, and was on a path to turn his life around. "It's just a tragedy for both of us. We know his family.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
Union workers at Pratt & Whitney have been on strike for nearly three weeks, and on Thursday, talks resume at the bargaining table. Amid the strike, a video has surfaced online that appears to show union workers blocking the entrance on Aircraft Road to the plant in Middletown. It's unclear who the men are or when the video was taken, but it appears to show them blocking the road with their vehicles.
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3 weeks ago |
nbcconnecticut.com | Amanda Pitts
A video of an act of kindness at Hartford Hospital is going viral on TikTok. Liliana Bera and Evan Jekubovich, seniors at Southington High School, spent a date night in April making other people's day. "I saw a TikTok that was like similar, and we had nothing to do, and I really wanted to do it as our four-month anniversary date," Bera said.
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Only on @NBCConnecticut - We spoke to a man who was first on scene of the quadruple fatal crash in Waterbury. He says he saw the driver speed by before crashing. Among the victims are three brothers. We're also hearing from the family friend of a victim, https://t.co/YwsmAEtfae
At 4: We speak one-on-one with Ioannis Kaloidis, defense attorney for Kimberly Sullivan. Sullivan is accused of holding her stepson captive for 20 years. Kaloidis says the allegations in the warrant are false. "68 pounds…it doesn’t mean that she starved him.” @NBCConnecticut https://t.co/rlWxGJxXxn