Rob Polansky
Digital Content Producer
Rocky Hill, CT
Rob Polansky is an Emmy-award-winning digital content producer. He started working at WFSB in 2005 as a producer. He served as weekend morning producer, weekday morning producer, weekend evening producer, 5:30 p.m. producer and 6 p.m. producer. In 2014, he became a digital content producer for WFSB.com.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
Several Bed, Bath & Beyond stores were slated to close in Connecticut amid the company’s bankruptcy concerns.
Updated: 3 hours ago
|By Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky
Tax relief for low-income workers was proposed by the Lamont Administration.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky and Ayah Galal
Federal funding increases were announced for major food programs.
Updated: 4 hours ago
|By Zoe Strothers and Rob Polansky
A woman from Waterford was identified as the victim of a deadly crash that happened in New London on Sunday.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Olivia Kalentek and Rob Polansky
Crews battled a massive 3-alarm fire at an egg farm in Bozrah over the weekend.
Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
A woman faces a number of charges after she was pulled over for speeding, suspected of having drugs, dragged an officer with her vehicle, then tried to hide in a home.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 5:24 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
One of the five Memphis officers charged in the beating death of a Black man is from Connecticut.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 5:22 PM EST
|By Ayah Galal and Rob Polansky
Borrowers in Connecticut who would have been eligible for the one-time student debt relief plan numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 12:22 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A student died on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus on Thursday.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 10:25 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
U.S. marshals said they arrested a violent fugitive who’s accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend and her son multiple times.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 6:58 AM EST
|By Ayah Galal and Rob Polansky
An increased police presence was posted at a middle school in Meriden on Friday after a student brought a gun to it earlier in the week.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 6:49 AM EST
|By Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky
Anyone flying out of Tweed-New Haven Airport this weekend may want to consider traveling light.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 9:41 PM EST
|By Jay Kenney, Rob Polansky and Ayah Galal
A man was found dead after firefighters put out a fire in Westbrook.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 7:32 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky and Susan Raff
The governor announced a second set of gun violence proposals on Thursday.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 2:14 PM EST
|By Zoe Strothers, Rob Polansky and Dylan Fearon
A man was killed in a hit-and-run on Pitkin Street in East Hartford on Wednesday night.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 12:01 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A woman faces manslaughter and other charges in connection with the death of a man in an apartment in Montville last fall.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 9:50 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A man in Ledyard accused of assaulting his neighbor was reportedly high on mushrooms, according to his wife.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 6:53 AM EST
|By Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky
The morning commute will likely be messy for a lot of folks.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:33 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky and Dylan Fearon
Lawmakers on Wednesday announced the launch of the new Regionalized Human Tracking Recovery Taskforce.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:23 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A portion of Interstate 91 north was closed in Wallingford on Wednesday morning because of an oil tanker rollover.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:22 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Route 6 in Bristol was closed Wednesday morning because a driver struck a person who was riding a motorized bike.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 12:10 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A state police K9 helped track down a stolen vehicle suspect in Ellington on Tuesday, troopers said.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 11:18 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
State police arrested a man on negligent homicide and other charges more than a year after he was involved in a deadly four-vehicle crash in Farmington.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 8:49 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Lockheed Martin confirmed that it plans to reduce 800 positions, and that the number includes jobs at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. in Stratford.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 8:22 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Someone stole a cat during a hotel burglary in Shelton over the weekend.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 7:59 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Police said they’re looking for a man who dropped off a dog to the Wolcott Vet on Tuesday afternoon.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 7:47 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Teenage twins from East Hartford were reported missing by their mother last week.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 7:03 AM EST
|By Christian Colón, Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky
A couple of mass shootings in California that left a total of 18 people dead have had an impact across the country and in Connecticut.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 6:58 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky and Marc Robbins
The state’s comptroller gave an update on the state’s “hero pay” program.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 12:58 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Interstate 95 south is closed in East Lyme because of a collision.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 12:40 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky, Susan Raff and Evan Sobol
LEGO is moving its head office out of Connecticut.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 9:23 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Southbury police said they conducted the stop on Sunday night after the driver committed a violation.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 8:58 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A man wanted on several warrants was arrested after he leapt from a second-floor window and Plainfield police used a Taser on him.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 8:41 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A man suspected of several home and commercial burglaries was arrested as part of an investigation in North Haven.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 6:43 AM EST
|By Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky
The 2023 tax season has begun and the Internal Revenue Service kicked it off with a warning.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 12:22 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Thirty-eight catalytic converters were stolen off school buses in East Hartford over the weekend.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 11:37 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A man faces charges in connection with an illegal tabling ring that was hidden behind a store front in the Terryville section of Plymouth.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 8:19 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Police in Middletown posted a missing persons report for a man who was last seen dropping his children off in Enfield.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:47 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Connecticut does not rank among the best states to retire, according to a report from WalletHub.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 7:20 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
The governor ordered flags in Connecticut to half staff in honor of the victims of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, CA over the weekend.
Updated: Jan. 21, 2023 at 11:26 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky, Dylan Fearon and Kristina Russo
Waterbury police responded to a stolen vehicle call that was initially reported as involving a child in the backseat.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 11:21 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky and Ayah Galal
The state’s technical high schools were put in a secure school protocol because of what state police said were multiple threats in multiple towns.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 1:56 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Firefighters were called to a building fire on the University of Connecticut’s Storrs campus Friday morning.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Interstate 84 eastbound was reduced to one lane of traffic because of a jackknifed tractor trailer.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 11:43 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
As of this week, two of the state’s eight counties were reduced from high COVID community level to the medium designation, according to federal data.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 10:30 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A man in Meriden reported to police that he was carjacked at an ATM in the city.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 12:54 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Eversource sought to remind people about constantly evolving scams by people who often pose as their representatives.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 12:53 PM EST
|By Audrey Russo and Rob Polansky
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association held its economic outlook summit in on Thursday.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 12:50 PM EST
|By Rob Polansky
Firefighters were called to a fire in Seymour on Thursday morning.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 8:19 AM EST
|By Rob Polansky
A tractor trailer crash on Interstate 91 south in Hartford slowed traffic on Thursday morning.
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