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.
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|By Rob Polansky and Bryant Reed
A popular brewery in Hartford reopened after a significant round of flooding repairs.
Updated: 8 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
Large areas throughout the northeastern part of the country were being impacted by poor air quality from wildfires in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
Child care workers have received a little extra boost from the state.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Zoe Strothers, Hector Molina, Olivia Kalentek, Rob Polansky and Audrey Russo
A suspect has been arrested following a hit-and-run in Waterbury that left a 17-year-old with life-threatening injuries.
Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
A man with a lengthy criminal history is being sought by both local and state police.
Updated: 12 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
Tristen Newton will rejoin the Huskies for his final year of eligibility, the team announced on Wednesday.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
A check fraud investigation by Southington police led to the arrest of a woman from Pennsylvania.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
A woman who worked as a tax return preparer was sentenced for making changes to her clients’ tax returns.
Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Rob Polansky
A bill that would allow voters to cast ballots early is headed to the governor’s desk.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 1:40 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Susan Raff
The state’s largest teacher union outlined measures it said addresses a teacher shortage and brings more people into the profession.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 12:21 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A man was charged with drunk driving after state police said he slammed his vehicle into a utility pole in Willington early Tuesday morning.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 12:21 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
An 81-year-old man was killed in a two-vehicle crash that happened in Brooklyn on Monday.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 12:14 PM EDT
|By Olivia Kalentek, Marcy Jones, Jay Kenney, Rob Polansky and Matt McFarland
A 16-year-old was shot and killed just steps from his home in New Haven on Memorial Day, according to police.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 9:34 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
A man from Wilton is accused of driving drunk with a 6-year-old passenger.
Updated: May. 30, 2023 at 8:39 AM EDT
|By Rob Polansky
State police reported that they responded to more than 270 crashes and made three dozen drunk driving arrests over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Updated: May. 29, 2023 at 1:42 PM EDT
|By Rob Polansky and Kristina Russo
A suspected vehicle thief who had been receiving treatment from a hospital in Meriden escaped custody, police said.
Updated: May. 27, 2023 at 9:04 AM EDT
|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 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.
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