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: 21 hours ago
|By Zoe Strothers, Dylan Fearon, Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky
Waterbury Police are investigating after a 26-year-old was killed on Circular Ave.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 11:20 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Cassidy Williams
AAA predicted that Memorial Day weekend will be one of the busiest on record in terms of travel.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 10:52 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Ayah Galal
A young bear found its way into a part of downtown Hartford on Friday afternoon.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 10:18 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Dylan Fearon
Meriden police revealed more about a street takeover that damaged one of their cruisers earlier this month.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 7:01 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
East Granby Public Schools were closed on Friday after a student was unknowingly in possession of drugs on a school bus.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 9:35 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Four people, including a 12-year-old, were arrested in connection with a couple of stolen vehicle crashes in Berlin.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 6:25 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team heads to Washington DC on Friday.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 6:13 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Hector Molina
Several hundred officers from across the state gathered in Meriden on Thursday for an annual law enforcement memorial service.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 1:59 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A woman was found dead in a reservoir in Weston on Tuesday.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 1:47 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
People in Plainville were told to avoid an area of Plainville because of what was initially described as a “police incident.”
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 11:32 AM EDT
|By Zoe Strothers and Rob Polansky
One person died following a three-vehicle crash in New Haven on Wednesday night.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 10:36 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A suspected vehicle thief who had been receiving treatment from a hospital in Meriden escaped custody, police said.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 8:58 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A firearms instructor was arrested for a drunk driving crash and his gun was found on the side of a road in Meriden, according to police.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 7:26 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A report of a man shooting from an apartment window in Danbury led to one arrest.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 7:53 PM EDT
|By Olivia Kalentek, Jay Kenney, Marcy Jones, Rob Polansky and Matt McFarland
A boy was assaulted with a knife during what police described as a physical altercation at an elementary school in East Haven.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 1:50 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Connecticut’s governor wants young adults and employers to participate in the Connecticut Youth Employment Program.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 12:34 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Ayah Galal
The family of a New Canaan mother who disappeared ahead of Memorial Day weekend in 2019 marked four years since she’s been gone.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 11:23 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Marc Robbins
A bear nearly disrupted the operations of a bakery.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 9:49 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Fans of 90s rock will “just wanna fly” to Lake Compounce in Bristol this summer.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 9:35 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A man was arrested for leading a mall store employee to believe that he had a gun and claiming he’d shoot security.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 8:56 AM EDT
|By Jay Kenney, Matt McFarland, Rob Polansky and Hector Molina
A New Haven School was locked down on Tuesday after officials received reports of a suspicious bag, possibly with a gun.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 12:52 PM EDT
|By Olivia Schueller, Jay Kenney, Rob Polansky and Ayah Galal
A 17-year-old girl died as a result of a fall from a pickup truck in Burlington, according to state police.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 12:25 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky, Evan Sobol and Cassidy Williams
Police closed a road in Manchester for what they described as an “active investigation.”
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 11:38 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A man faces assault and other charges for threatening to crash a car with a woman in it, then actually doing it, according to police in Ledyard.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 9:42 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A bear looking to score a feast found its way into a homeowner’s garage in Hartland over the weekend.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 8:42 AM EDT
|By Caitlin Francis and Rob Polansky
It may be a phenomenon that’s celebrated all year round, but for a single day many coffee fans feel it’s getting the recognition it deserves, and for a good cause.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 6:30 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A farmer in Orange reported that he was pistol whipped and robbed while he was on his way to milk cows.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 12:42 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky, Dylan Fearon and Evan Sobol
State police are investigating a street takeover that caused damage in the green and center areas of Tolland over the weekend.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 1:49 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A 4-month-old boy from Hartford missing since last week has been found safe, according to Hartford police.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 10:46 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A Bible case embossed with the name of “Jesus” may have been mistaken for a purse when it was stolen from a woman’s vehicle in Southington, police believe.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 9:35 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A construction worker accused of driving around a Cromwell plaza yelling profanities from an ambulance-like vehicle has been fired, according to fire officials.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 9:08 AM EDT
|By Luke Hajdasz and Rob Polansky
Car break-ins on the shoreline have people living in a Niantic neighborhood on edge.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 9:00 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Someone who bought a Powerball ticket in Connecticut is $100,000 richer.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 8:13 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A case where three suspects supposedly snatched a $600 bong from a smoke shop in Oxford appears to have been closed.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 7:51 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Firefighters rescued a climber who fell off Ragged Mountain in Southington on Sunday.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 12:25 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A body was discovered in a state forest in Thompson, environmental police confirmed.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 12:16 PM EDT
|By Jay Kenney, Marcy Jones, Rob Polansky and Mike Cerullo
An apartment attached to a home in Manchester was destroyed by an early morning fire that firefighters blamed on the improper disposal of smoking material.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 11:19 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Audrey Russo
A technical high school in Waterbury said it was forced to dismiss early on Friday because of a staff shortage.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 11:14 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Two people needed treatment for burn injuries following an apartment fire in Hartford on Friday morning.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 9:26 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
State police said they tracked down a wrong way driver in Torrington early Friday morning.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 8:41 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A generator fire damaged a condominium in Shelton on Thursday.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 12:16 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Evan Sobol
For the second time in less than a day, a moose was struck and killed on a Connecticut roadway.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 11:38 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A third attempted home invasion suspect was arrested in connection with an incident that was caught on camera in East Haven and went viral last month.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 10:36 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Taylor Swift fans made a trip up to Foxborough, MA on Thursday to get gear ahead of this weekend’s concerts.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 9:35 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Two people were hospitalized following a one-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in Groton Thursday morning.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 9:13 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A motorized scooter was involved in a crash that closed a road in Manchester on Thursday morning.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 9:07 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Interstate 691 in Southington was closed on Thursday morning because of a reported crash.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 7:45 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
YouTube TV subscribers missed out on the last 4 minutes of game one of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals on Wednesday night.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 7:39 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
Sometimes you just have to look out for the little guys.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 7:27 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Luke Hajdasz
Cadets will hear from the Department of Homeland Security secretary during their commencement at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Wednesday.
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