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• New Legislation Combating Opioid Crisis Has Connecticut Talking

  12-12-2016 23:37
  
  New federal legislation that could be signed by President Obama as soon as Tuesday is expected to provide $1 billion dollars over two years to combat the opioid crisis.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Best Buy employees chip in to buy Wii U for kid who visited store daily

  12-12-2016 23:23
  
  VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. – Employees at a Best Buy in suburban New York City decided to spread some holiday cheer by buying a Nintendo Wii U gaming system for a teen who was a regular at the store. Rahiem Storr, one of the managers at the Valley Stream, New York, store, said the teen came in every day to play games on the store’s display system. In an email to CNN, Storr said employees Kenneth Fernandez and Pal Ndoja decided […]
  
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• 71 Hartford Residents Displaced by Overnight Fire

  12-12-2016 23:20
  
  Seventy-one Hartford residents were forced out of their homes by an overnight fire, officials said Monday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• People complain caricature seen on Greenwich holiday festival ride is racist

  12-12-2016 23:08
  
  GREENWICH — A holiday festival in Connecticut is being criticized for a children’s ride that includes what some festivalgoers saw as a racist caricature that depicts a black cannibal in a loin cloth trying to cook a white man. The Greenwich Time reports the images appeared on the Safari Train at the Sam Bridge Nursery’s Reindeer Festival in Greenwich. The black man is depicted with oversized red lips and a bone in his hair. Lauren Lodato, who is studying for a gr
  
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• Tuesday will be mild but arctic front will bring harsh chill later in the week

  12-12-2016 23:04
  
  The big-story the harsh and unusual cold later this week (Thursday and Friday). Tuesday will seem mild compared to what’s ahead with highs in the low-40s and a fair amount of sun. Clouds will begin to increase later in the day with the chance for a few snow showers Tuesday night. While snow will be hit-or-miss, there’s a chance some towns could get a quick coating. Wednesday will be calm with plenty of sun and highs in the 30s and […]
  
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• Stranger Donates Wad of $100 Bills to Willimantic Salvation Army

  12-12-2016 22:57
  
  A stranger placed hundreds of dollars in a Salvation Army kettle in Willimantic.Photo Credit: WireImage
  
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• State Police and Manchester officers cleared in shooting death following 2015 bank robbery

  12-12-2016 22:52
  
  BOLTON — More than a year after a man was shot and killed by two police officers, a state investigation into the case has cleared the officers and ruled their actions justified. On August 14, 2015, Christopher T. Anderson, 53, was shot by two officers following a bank robbery and police chase. He died two days later from his injuries. On December 12, 2016, the state’s attorney for the judicial district of New London completed the investigation into the use of […]
  
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• EB Relaunches Apprenticeship Program With Plans to Hire

  12-12-2016 22:33
  
  Electric Boat expects to hit a peak employment of 18,000 people by 2030.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Deep River Recalls Potato Chips For Possible Salmonella Risk

  12-12-2016 22:24
  
  DEEP RIVER, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut snack maker is recalling some of its potato chips for possible salmonella contamination.
  Deep River announced it is voluntarily recalling certain bags of its sour cream and onion-flavored kettle chips.
  The recall includes two-ounce and five-ounce packages with “Best By” dates from November 9, 2016 to June 2, 2017.
  The company founded in 2002 in Deep River, Conn. says buttermilk powder used in the seasoning may contain trace
  
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• RAY DUNAWAY: What Happens When People Boycott the Media?

  12-12-2016 22:11
  
  Rich Hanley, Associate Professor of Journalism and the graduate Journalism program director in the School of Communications joined Ray.  He comes with a question– what does it mean when people start to boycott the media and threaten the freedom of speech?
  
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• RAY DUNAWAY: Federal Reserve Rate Hike #2

  12-12-2016 22:09
  
  Jill Schlesinger, Business Analyst for CBS News, joins Ray to discuss Federal Reserve Rate Hike number two.
  The Federal Reserve will likely raise short-term interest rates this week, when it convenes the last policy meeting of 2016.  The second rate hike of the cycle comes one full year after the first, nine years after the last time it had previously raised rates.
  
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• NEW EPISODE: Healthcare Matters – Cancer Treatment

  12-12-2016 22:06
  
  Cancer treatment has become targeted and more precise… improving patient care!  Host Rebecca Stewart talks about advances in cancer care. She was joined by two world-renowned cancer experts: Dr. David Hyman from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Dr. Peter Yu, Physician-in-Chief of the Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute.
  
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• State: Police Justified In Deadly Shooting

  12-12-2016 22:05
  
  NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut prosecutor has cleared a state trooper and Manchester police officer of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a bank robbery suspect last year.
  New London State’s Attorney Michael Regan says in a report released Monday that the officers were justified in shooting Christopher Anderson because he came at them with a utility knife and refused commands to drop it.
  Regan says Trooper Brian Contenta and Officer Layau Eulizier shot the 54-year-old Hartf
  
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• Deep River Snacks recalls potato chips for possible salmonella risk

  12-12-2016 22:05
  
  DEEP RIVER — A Connecticut snack maker is recalling some of its potato chips for possible salmonella contamination. Deep River announced it is voluntarily recalling certain bags of its sour cream and onion-flavored kettle chips. The recall includes two-ounce and five-ounce packages with “Best By” dates from November 9, 2016 to June 2, 2017. The UPC codes are: 850668000498 850668000993 850668000993 The company founded in 2002 in Deep River, Connecticut, says buttermilk powder us
  
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• UConn Unanimous Number 1 In Women’s Basketball Poll

  12-12-2016 21:58
  
  (The Associated Press) — After two more road victories, UConn is now the unanimous No. 1 in women’s hoops.The Huskies moved back to the top spot in the AP women’s basketball poll last week and then beat No. 2 Notre Dame on Wednesday as well as topping Kansas State on Sunday to improve their winning streak to 84 consecutive games. UConn received all 33 first place votes from a national media panel Monday. The Huskies are off this week for exams.
  Despite the loss, the Irish remai
  
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• Keidel: Calm Down, Cowboys Fans

  12-12-2016 21:48
  
  By Jason Keidel
  The NFL’s haunting vocational acronym, Not For Long, has long applied to the length of the average football player’s career, which hovers around three years.
  But it could also apply to the allegiance or attention span of the fan.
  The Dallas Cowboys just lost a football game to the New York Giants. While Dallas was 11-1, with all those wins coming consecutively, the Giants were hardly pushovers. The Giants were 8-4, at home and a divisional foe that knows the Cowboys b
  
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• Victim In Southbury Crash Identified

  12-12-2016 21:45
  
  (Southbury, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – State Police have released more information on a fatal crash this morning in Southbury in which a passenger vehicle collided with a garbage truck.
  They say the incident occurred just after 6:30 a.m. on Route 188.
  The vehicle driven by 59-year-old Kim Lesko of Oxford was traveling northbound on Route 188 when it swerved left into the southbound lanes, ending up facing in a westerly direction.
  Lesko’s car, a 2008 Honda Civic, was struck by the by th
  
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• One Dead After Crash on Route 188 in Southbury

  12-12-2016 21:28
  
  One person is dead after a crash on Route 188 in Southbury Monday morning.
  
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• Man Known For Overcoming Addiction Slain After Intervening In Assault

  12-12-2016 21:17
  
  GROTON, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A Connecticut man was killed after witnesses say he intervened during an assault in the parking lot of a Groton pub.
  Police say 24-year-old Joey Gingerella was shot multiple times outside Ryan’s Pub early Sunday.
  Pub owner Hubba Ryan tells The Day that people in the bar saw a man assaulting his girlfriend in a car in the parking lot.
  Gingerella ran out to help and was shot to death.
  His mother, Tammy de la Cruz, told the newspaper her son was
  
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• Man arranges date in New Haven with woman he met online; gets carjacked instead

  12-12-2016 21:13
  
  NEW HAVEN — A date that one man made with someone he met online ended a lot worse than he ever could have imagined. A victim called 911 to report a robbery at 7:15 a.m. on Saturday, but police couldn’t find the victim. However, witnesses in the area were able to tell police what happened, and even had surveillance footage from a nearby camera to back the story up. It turns out, the victim met a woman online, and arranged […]
  
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• Navy Contracts To Bring Jobs, Apprentice Program To Electric Boat

  12-12-2016 20:58
  
  GROTON, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – According to reports, to keep up with their U.S. Navy contracts Electric Boat’s shipyard in Groton will hire thousands of new employees over the next decade and the company plans to restart the apprentice programs for members of the design and carpenter unions.
  Employment at Electric Boat in Groton is expected to reach 18,000 by 2030, as the company ramps up work on submarines in Southeast Connecticut and Rhode Island.  Officials want to make su
  
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• Download Tickets To See an Advance Screening of ‘JACKIE’

  12-12-2016 20:41
  
  Want to see an advance screening of JACKIE on Tuesday, December 20 at Bow Tie Palace in Hartford? Keep reading to find out how you can download FREE tickets to the screening!
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  JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).  JACKIE place
  
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• Win Admission To First Night Hartford 2017

  12-12-2016 20:29
  
  This week, WTIC NewsTalk 1080 is giving you the chance to win admission to First Night Hartford– all you have to do is call in and win!
  First Night is a celebration of the New Year through the arts.  It is an alcohol free, family-friendly, public celebration that marks the passage from the old year to the new with art, ritual and festivity.
  The day is a multicultural, artistically unique, alcohol-free New Year’s experience with countless professional musicians, ar
  
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• Yankee Candle issues recall after some glass candles crack when lit

  12-12-2016 20:18
  
  HARTFORD — Yankee Candle is recalling thousands of candles after learning some of the jars crack and could cut people using them. The candles are part of the “Luminous Candle Collection.” The square glass candles contain a fragrant wax with three wicks. The recalled candles are approximately 4 inches wide by 5 inches high. They were sold in Yankee Candle stores nationwide and online from September through November 2016 for about $35. According to the recall, listed by
  
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• How to get a phone call from Santa this year

  12-12-2016 19:53
  
  NORTH POLE — Your kids can get a phone call from the North Pole this year! The SantaPhone project from Twilio is an automated phone chat bot that lets parents arrange to receive a phone call from Santa’s headquarters. When the phone rings, kids can tell one of his helpers what they want for Christmas. Here’s how it works: Parents schedule a call via the website, and provide their phone number and email. Twilio will text you to confirm. Then the […]
  
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• State High Court Considering Cell Phone Location Data In Criminal Cases

  12-12-2016 19:50
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — After hearing legal arguments today, the state Supreme Court is considering how cell phone location evidence should be handled in criminal cases.
  Defense lawyer Timothy Everett says this is a new kind of information, that should be explained to judges and jurors.
  “Careful courts, I believe look at this evidence and ask that there be a full vetting of it,” Everett said.
  The defense argues that an expert should present cell phone location evidence, to ensure t
  
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• Hartford man pulled over with headlights off, arrested on pot and stolen gun charges

  12-12-2016 19:20
  
  HARTFORD – A man pulled over for driving without headlights on Interstate 91 Friday night was arrested on drug and gun charges, according to state police. Police said Naseem M. Wilson, 18, of Orange Street in Hartford, had a stolen Ruger .380-caliber handgun with four rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber. He and his passenger also had marijuana, according to police. Police stopped Wilson in an Acura off I-91 north at Exit 32B on Trumbull Street at […]
  
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• Southington Robbery Suspect in Custody After Large Search

  12-12-2016 19:02
  
  Multiple departments are searching for a Southington bank robbery suspect along Route 8 near the Naugatuck/Beacon Falls line.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Wintry Mix Causes Hundreds of School Closures & Delays

  12-12-2016 19:00
  
  Winter weather advisories have been issued for northern Connecticut as the season's first widespread wintry mix is expected to move in Sunday night into Monday. The NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued...Photo Credit: NBC ConnecticutThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Police identify two killed in weekend Rocky Hill fire

  12-12-2016 18:13
  
  ROCKY HILL –  The two people who died after a fire erupted in a Rocky Hill home have been identified. According to Assistant Fire Chief David Kromas, a call came in around 3:15 a.m. from a neighbor reporting that a house at 65 Walnut Road was on fire. Upon arrival, the rear of the house was fully involved. The Rocky Hill Fire Department was able to knock down the fire in about a half-hour but when they searched the house, they found the […]
  
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• 2 Identified In Deadly Fire

  12-12-2016 18:07
  
  (Rocky Hill, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Police in Rocky Hill have released the names of the victims in a fatal weekend fire in town.
  They have been identified as 58-year-old Thomas Munger and 49-year-old Veronica Cossio-Munger.
  At around 3:14 a.m. on Saturday, officers found fire in the rear of the home, which was fully involved, at 65 Walnut Road.
  Fire crews arrived shortly thereafter and extinguished the blaze.
  Police say the man and woman were found in separate rooms of the home.
  The medi
  
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• Dunkin’ Donuts in Mass. tests new ‘curbside pickup’ feature

  12-12-2016 17:55
  
  NATICK, Massachusetts – Dunkin’ Donuts is testing out a new feature so that DD Perks members don’t have wait in line or leave their cars, according to the Boston Herald. Dunkin’ Donuts in Natick, Massachusetts, is testing out free curbside pickup, a new service feature for DD Perks rewards members only. DD Perks customers can use the Dunkin’ Donuts mobile app to place and pay for their orders in advance then select the curbside pickup option. Curbside pickup allows
  
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• Santa Claus Grants Child Christmas Wish, Dies In His Arms

  12-12-2016 17:44
  
  CBS Local (Knoxville, TN) – For those posing as Santa Claus in malls and hospitals or anywhere else this holiday season, they have extra incentives to be good at their jobs: they get to make kids smile, and in rare cases, it can make their life.
  Eric Schmitt-Matzen isn’t just any Santa, either, he’s a Hall of Fame Santa. For starters, he’s 6’1″ and 310 pounds, naturally looking the part. He needs not outside help for facial hair, as his Santa be
  
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• Several Departments Search For Bank Rob Suspect

  12-12-2016 17:26
  
  (Southington, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Naugatuck Police say they, along with the State Police, are assisting in the search of a suspect who robbed a bank earlier this morning in Southington.
  They say they’re searching High Rock and an area west of Route 8.
  The pursuit includes officers from several surrounding towns.
  This, after police say the suspect’s vehicle became disabled in Naugatuck, the suspect taking off toward the area where the search is taking place.
  There’s n
  
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• Several Departments Help Collar Bank Rob Suspect

  12-12-2016 17:26
  
  (Naugatuck, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Naugatuck Police say they, along with the State Police, assisted in the search of a suspect who robbed a bank earlier this morning in Southington.
  Officers searched High Rock and an area west of Route 8, the pursuit involving officers from several surrounding towns.
  This, after police say the suspect’s vehicle became disabled in Naugatuck, the suspect taking off toward the area where the search is taking place.
  State Police say K9’s found th
  
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• Police on the lookout for Southington bank robbery suspect

  12-12-2016 17:26
  
  SOUTHINGTON – Multiple police agencies are searching along Route 8 in Southington for a bank robbery suspect. Connecticut State Police said they are assisting the Southington and Naugatuck police departments with the search for a suspect along Route 8 near exit 24. Police said they are searching the High Rock and the area west of Route 8. The suspect was being chased by police before his car became disabled in Naugatuck on Route 8 and he ran off. State Police K9 teams a
  
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• Police nab Southington bank robbery suspect after search through multiple towns

  12-12-2016 17:26
  
  SOUTHINGTON — Multiple police agencies searching along Route 8 in Southington for a bank robbery suspect got their man around noon on Monday. At around 9:45 a.m., Southington Police got a report of a hold up alarm coming from the TD Bank at 121 Main Street. Employees said a white man entered the bank and passed a note demanding money. The teller gave the man an undetermined amount of money and he took off in a green SUV. Southington Police saw the SUV on West [&hel
  
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• ‘Can you help me?’ Terminally ill child asks Santa for one more wish before dying in his arms

  12-12-2016 17:26
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Santa Claus hears many requests during the holiday season — but one 5-year-old boy’s request brought this Santa to tears, according to a story featured in the Knoxville News Sentinel. Eric Schmitt-Matzen has played Santa for many years. He looks every bit the part, and he was even born on December 6 (St. Nick’s Day). Several weeks ago, Schmitt-Matzen received a call from a nurse. She asked him to come to the hospital because there was a s
  
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• Meriden dentist accused of sexual assault due in court on stalking, other charges

  12-12-2016 17:09
  
  MERIDEN — A Meriden dentist is due in court Monday after he was arrested three times earlier this year on sexual assault charges, and again Friday night on various charges including stalking. On Friday at around 10 p.m., Meriden Police responded to a report of a burglary in progress.  Police said they saw a car leaving the area that was registered to Jeffrey Krahling. Police said they weren’t able to stop the car but they found t
  
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• Holiday Caricature Deemed Racist

  12-12-2016 17:05
  
  GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) – A holiday festival in Greenwich is being criticized for a children’s ride that includes what some festival goers saw as a racistcaricature that depicts a black cannibal in a loin cloth trying to cook a white man.
  The Greenwich Time reports (http://bit.ly/2hvJclz ) the images appeared on the “Safari Train” at the Sam Bridge Nursery’s Reindeer Festival.
  The black man is depicted with oversized red lips and a bone in his hair.
  Lauren Lodato, who
  
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• HGTV’s ‘Flip or Flop’ hosts split months after police called

  12-12-2016 16:59
  
  LOS ANGELES — The husband and wife team behind HGTV‘s “Flip or Flop” have announced their separation six months after police were called to their home over what the couple called an “unfortunate misunderstanding.” Tarek and Christina El Moussa say in a statement that police were called out of “an abundance of caution.” They say there was no violence and no charges were filed. The couple says the incident prompted them to seek counseling and they&rs
  
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• Emergency Crews Respond to Fire in East Hartford

  12-12-2016 16:52
  
  Emergency crews are responding to a house fire on High Street in East Hartford.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Racist Caricature Seen At Connecticut Holiday Festival

  12-12-2016 16:43
  
  GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — A holiday festival in Greenwich is being criticized for a children’s ride that includes what some festivalgoers saw as a racist caricature that depicts a black cannibal in a loin cloth trying to cook a white man.
  The Greenwich Time reports the images appeared on the “Safari Train” at the Sam Bridge Nursery’s Reindeer Festival.
  The black man is depicted with oversized red lips and a bone in his hair.
  Lauren Lodato, who is studying for a gradu
  
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• Lockheed falls as Trump tweets that F-35 program is costly

  12-12-2016 16:37
  
  NEW YORK — Shares of Lockheed Martin fell as President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that making F-35 fighter planes is too costly and that he will cut “billions” in costs for military purchases. The F-35 program and cost is out of control. Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2016 Lockheed makes the F-35 one-seat fighter aircraft for the U.S. and is a major defense [
  
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• Pedestrian, 58, Struck, Killed By Car In Hamden

  12-12-2016 16:32
  
  HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Police say a 58-year-old man was struck and killed by a vehicle in Hamden.
  Officers responded to the scene around 2 a.m. Sunday following reports that a pedestrian was struck. The victim, identified as Harris Tendler of Hamden, was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Tendler’s body was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Farmington.
  An investigation found that Tendler was hit by a car traveling northbound as he tried to cross the street. The driver stayed
  
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• New Hampshire women sue groom, event company after being hit by drone

  12-12-2016 16:22
  
  BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Two women are suing a groom and the event company that ran his wedding reception after they allege he flew a drone that hit them in the head at the New Hampshire event. Kneena Ellis, of Seabrook, and Kelly Eaton of Peabody, Massachusetts, claim in their Dec. 1 suit that they suffered permanent physical and emotional injury as a result of the Aug. 8 incident. The suit says Barry Billcliff had flown the drone to take pictures at […]
  
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• UConn Students Design Ornaments For National Christmas Tree

  12-12-2016 16:21
  
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut’s ornaments for this year’s National Christmas Tree were designed by six students from the University of Connecticut.
  UConn’s School of Fine Arts was chosen for the project on the recommendation of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office.
  The National Park Service and National Park Foundation decorated this year’s tree in Washington, D.C. with a display of ornaments from the across the nation, including the 12 from Connecticut.
  
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• Many Connecticut Schools Closed, Delayed Due To Storm

  12-12-2016 16:17
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Many schools across Connecticut are closed or delaying their start times as the state is hit by a wintry mix of snow, sleet and rain.
  The National Weather Service says two to four inches of snow could accumulate Monday, along with some ice. The northwest corner of the state in Litchfield County is expected to get the worst of it, with three to six inches expected.
  MORE: For the latest school closings and delays, visit WTIC’s STORM CENTER
  Heavier snow is expect
  
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