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: 6 hours ago
|By Olivia Kalentek, Marcy Jones, Jay Kenney, Rob Polansky, Matt McFarland and Gray News staff
Police believe it was a targeted incident, but the teenager may not have been the intended victim.
Updated: 21 hours ago
|By Olivia Kalentek, Marcy Jones, Jay Kenney and Rob Polansky
Police believe it was a targeted attack but say the teen may not have been the intended victim.
Updated: May. 23, 2023 at 7:56 PM CDT
|By Olivia Schueller, Jay Kenney, Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
Connecticut State Police identified the girl as Sophie Ringquist.
Updated: May. 8, 2023 at 8:07 AM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
A person walking through the park noticed something sticking out of the ground, police said.
Updated: May. 2, 2023 at 1:25 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
Authorities said 61-year-old Alexander Harb, a resident of Alabama, was arrested Monday for the Sept. 30, 2022 crash.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 3:03 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
The East Lyme Police Department said 32-year-old Maria Paige and her boyfriend, 29-year-old TJ Kyle Trakas, were arrested Saturday.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2023 at 10:27 AM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
A man faces attempted kidnapping and other charges after police said he tried to kidnap two high school students.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2023 at 7:18 AM CDT
|By Jay Kenney, Audrey Russo, Rob Polansky, Cassidy Williams and Gray News staff
Police said a .22mm gun was in the 18-year-old student's bookbag.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 12:32 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky, Audrey Russo and Gray News staff
The victim was a 74-year-old woman who was out walking her dog.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 8:30 AM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
Investigators said they believe the shooting was targeted; although the 12-year-old was not an intended target.
Updated: Apr. 19, 2023 at 6:21 AM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
The driver had to be extracted from the vehicle.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2023 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
Police say a homeowner’s doorbell camera recorded a man posing as a delivery driver while attempting to break into the home.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2023 at 1:02 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
A fallen police officer’s wife gave birth to their healthy little girl earlier this week.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 4:19 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
A customer who frequented a store in Connecticut stalked an employee before stabbing her seven times on Valentine’s Day, according to an arrest warrant.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 10:43 AM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
Police in Connecticut said they charged 22-year-old Brett White with second-degree breach of peace.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 1:37 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
A man in Connecticut is accused of running an illegal gambling ring while he was in jail.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 6:52 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
A mother has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the death of her 8-year-old son.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 8:15 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky, Susan Raff and Andrew McMunn
Two drivers, including a state lawmaker, were killed in a wrong-way crash in Connecticut Thursday morning.
Updated: Nov. 23, 2022 at 1:21 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Debra Worley
A man in Connecticut is facing charges after being accused of leaving a premature baby on the hood of a stranger’s car earlier this year.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 2:26 PM CST
|By Audrey Russo, Rob Polansky and Debra Worley
Officers with the Naugatuck Police Department are searching for a man accused of killing his daughter who was just shy of turning 1.
Updated: Nov. 8, 2022 at 4:45 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
Authorities in Connecticut say two women have been arrested after a woman was found dead in her apartment.
Updated: Oct. 17, 2022 at 8:47 AM CDT
|By Zoe Strothers, Marcy Jones, Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
It was part of a preliminary report from the Office of the Inspector General, which announced that 26-year-old Officer Alec Iurato was justified in the shooting of the suspect, 35-year-old Nicholas Brutcher.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 12:03 PM CDT
|By Zoe Strothers, Gray News Staff, Roger Susanin and Rob Polansky
Officials said the domestic incident the officers responded to was fake.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2022 at 2:41 PM CDT
|By Eliza Kruczynski, Roger Susanin, Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
American Airlines passengers had a once-in-a-lifetime experience when a baby was born mid-flight in early September.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 8:35 PM CDT
|By Audrey Russo, Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
After nearly seven years of litigation, a Connecticut man has learned his fate.
Updated: Aug. 18, 2022 at 2:35 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky
A miniature horse born with little-to-no movement in his rear end can now trot thanks to a new wheelchair.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 1:41 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
A 16-year-old suspect in Connecticut was arrested for stealing cars as part of a social media trend.
Updated: Aug. 11, 2022 at 10:20 AM CDT
|By Evan Sobol, Erin Edwards, Marcy Jones, Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
Two children in Connecticut were hospitalized with mercury poisoning Tuesday.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 3:24 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky, Zoe Strothers, Susan Raff and Andrew McMunn
The CDC deemed jobs such as grocery store workers, nursing home workers and other health care provider jobs as essential.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 2:56 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
A former officer in Connecticut died in a crash two days after retiring from the police department.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2022 at 4:44 AM CDT
|By Rob Polansky, Erin Edwards and Evan Sobol
Experts plan to catch the bear, sedate it and tag it. They will use hazing techniques to scare the bear away from the house.
Updated: Jul. 26, 2022 at 8:48 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
A woman in Connecticut is facing an animal cruelty charge after police say she left her dog in a hot car last month.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 4:07 PM CDT
|By Patricia Del Rio, Audrey Russo, Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
As if high gas prices aren’t frustrating enough, imagine paying a pretty penny at the pump just to realize you filled your tank with water.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 12:28 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
A woman was rescued from under a public transit bus in Connecticut on Tuesday.
Updated: Jul. 5, 2022 at 1:47 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
A man from Connecticut was arrested in Massachusetts after police say he attempted to lure a woman into a back alley by impersonating an officer.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 10:31 AM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
A woman in Connecticut was charged after her young son was found wandering in a front yard, wet and crying, while she went to a store, police said.
Updated: May. 11, 2022 at 2:32 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Andrew McMunn
Police in Connecticut arrested a teenager they say robbed a victim who was selling an item over Facebook Marketplace.
Updated: May. 5, 2022 at 2:20 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
A Connecticut lawyer under investigation for a deadly shooting outside of his law practice last year is now facing a manslaughter charge.
Updated: Apr. 28, 2022 at 8:21 PM CDT
|By Audrey Russo, Rob Polansky and Jordan Gartner
Law enforcement and first responders showed their support for injured 6-year-old Dominick Krankall by visiting him Thursday at the Bridgeport Hospital.
Updated: Apr. 27, 2022 at 12:18 PM CDT
|By Evan Sobol, Rob Polansky and Emily Van de Riet
A child in Connecticut was taken to the hospital after suffering severe burns in a situation that his family describes as bullying.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2022 at 3:02 PM CDT
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
Troopers said the baby was listed in stable condition when they last checked.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2022 at 12:52 PM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Debra Worley
At the end of a dual meet in Connecticut, an athlete went back on the mat for a featured match against a player for the other team.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2022 at 11:30 AM CST
|By Rob Polansky and Gray News staff
When he returned to his house, the dog's owner said he noticed a cream-filled chocolate-covered candy. He said it smelled like a urinal deodorizer or a mothball.
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