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• Holiday Break Begins On A Down Note For Huskies

  23-12-2016 23:38
  
  By PAT EATON-ROBB   AP Sports Writer
   HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Jared Harper scored 22 points, including a key layup in overtime and Auburn won its fourth consecutive game, 70-67 over UConn on Friday afternoon.
  Connecticut native Mustapha Heron added 15 points and Danjel Purifoy added a career-high 15 rebounds for the Tigers, who are 10-2 for the first since the 2002-03 season.
  Rodney Purvis scored 20 points to lead UConn (5-6). Kentan Facey added 15 points and 14 rebounds for the Hu
  
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• Audrey Kuchen welcomes a baby girl

  23-12-2016 23:13
  
  Meet Piper Jill Foley! FOX 61 Anchor Audrey Kuchen welcomed her baby girl into the world on Thursday, December 22. The little one was born at 2:28 p.m., right on the day she was due. Audrey says the baby is happy and healthy. Congratulations to Audrey and her growing family!  
  
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• ‘Star Wars’ actress Carrie Fisher at hospital after ‘cardiac episode’ on plane

  23-12-2016 23:08
  
  LOS ANGELES — Reports indicate that actress Carrie Fisher is in the hospital after going into cardiac arrest on a plane on Friday. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the gate at 12:11 p.m. local time “to provide advanced life support and aggressively treat” the patient. The Los Angeles Times reports the patient is the 60-year-old actress, and that he plane was about to land at Los Angeles International Airport when the medical episode occurred. She is in critical
  
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• DMV to Mail New Licenses by 2018

  23-12-2016 23:06
  
  The days of leaving a Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles branch with a new license in hand will end by the end of 2017.
  
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• Coventry farm with more than 100 rescued animals needs its own rescuing this holiday season

  23-12-2016 22:33
  
  COVENTRY – Tara Farm Rescue, which has saved more than a hundred animals, now needs a little help itself. The Coventry farm is trying to raise money to build a new barn after its last one was destroyed by years of winter weather. Tara Farm Rescue was started by Bonnie Jeanne Gorden more than two decades ago. When she started, she worked three jobs just to get the place, which had previously been a condemned farm, up and running. “It’s been […]
  
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• Snow, Freezing Rain in Parts of CT for Christmas Eve Morning

  23-12-2016 21:42
  
  It will be a wet start to Christmas Eve, with steady rain across Connecticut.
  
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• Police: Man Drives Car Into Country Club Pond

  23-12-2016 21:15
  
  (Southington, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Southington Police say a Thursday mishap ended up with the driver of a vehicle in a pond at the Southington Country Club.
  Just before 10:30, they say they received a call that 54-year-old Brent Jewell of Heath, Ohio drove a 2016 Nissan on to the lower half of the property of the country club.
  Investigators say the vehicle entered a service road and traveled on to the course before winding up in the water.
  When they arrived, police and ambulance person
  
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• 5 Biggest Surprises In The NHL In 2016-17 Season

  23-12-2016 21:01
  
  Bryan Altman
  It’s almost the end of the calendar year 2016, which really means absolutely nothing in relation to the 2016-17 NHL calendar. But, if you really want to get technical — or philosophical, or whatever — a ‘year’ is really just an arbitrary man-made metric we use to keep time that has no real value or meaning outside of our own little world anyway. 
  So even though it’s not the official midway point of the season, and the NHL year has yet to reac
  
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• Winter Weather Advisory issued for Hartford & Tolland counties for Christmas Eve morning

  23-12-2016 21:00
  
  A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for north central Connecticut overnight Friday into Saturday. Hartford and Tolland counties are covered by the advisory, which is in effect from 5 a.m. Saturday through 2 p.m. A mix of sleet and freezing rain is expected, but only about an inch, and it should clear out in time for Santa to make his deliveries. Freezing rain is the primary concern in Connecticut, with the sleet staying further to the north in Massachusetts […]
  
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• Festive Fleet Gives Special Gift to Man With Spina Bifida

  23-12-2016 20:38
  
  It’s the spirit of giving that makes this season so special. In Connecticut, one cable company is connecting people to more to more than just TV and the internet.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Norwich man who called 911 for roommate’s ‘suicide attempt’ charged with assaulting him

  23-12-2016 20:31
  
  NORWICH — About two months after a person lost both of his legs and was in a coma, police have made two arrests. According to Nor Police, on October 27 Norwich police and medics responded to an apartment on East Main Street. Police say they received a 911 call from Kristopher Prudhomme, 28, that his roommate was incoherent and had red marks on his neck. Prudhomme told the dispatcher he thought it may have been a suicide attempt. The 35-year-old victim […]
  
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• Two Arrested In Norwich Man’s Strangulation, Leg Amputations

  23-12-2016 20:15
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — Two arrests have been made in the case of a Norwich man who lost both of his legs after being strangled.
  The 35-year-old victim was the roommate of one of the people arrested, 28-year-old Kristopher Prudhomme of East Main Street in Norwich.
  On October 27, Prudhomme called 911 to report that the victim had red marks around his neck.  Prudhomme claimed that his roommate may have tried to commit suicide.
  But Norwich Police have now charged Prudhomme with assaulting th
  
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• Police: Cleveland officer’s 2-year-old son dies after shooting himself with dad’s gun

  23-12-2016 20:04
  
  CLEVELAND — Police say a Cleveland police officer’s 2-year-old son has died after apparently shooting himself with his father’s service weapon. A Cleveland police statement says officers responded to a home in the northeast Ohio city around 10:30 a.m. Friday. Police say the child was taken to a hospital where he died from his injury. The names of the child and the father weren’t immediately released. The police statement says preliminary information indicates that the chi
  
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• Wet Start to Christmas Eve

  23-12-2016 20:03
  
  It will be a wet start to Christmas Eve, with steady rain across Connecticut.
  
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• Part Time Faculty Votes To Unionize At University Of Hartford

  23-12-2016 20:01
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — Part time professors at the University of Hartford have voted to join a union.
  In favor were 278, against 230.  There were 23 challenged ballots, but that was not enough to change the outcome of the vote among adjunct faculty.
  The union and the school now have seven days to decide if they wish to file objections.
  The instructors will now join the Service Employees International Union.
  Union organizers say their efforts will bring higher pay and better job security
  
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• Man Charged With Assaulting Roommate in Norwich

  23-12-2016 19:47
  
  A Norwich man who called police and reported that his roommate was injured in a possible suicide attempt has been arrested and accused with domestic assault. Police said the victim was in a medically induced...Photo Credit: Norwich Police
  
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• York Correctional inmate, in jail for 5 days, dies after being found unresponsive in her cell

  23-12-2016 19:14
  
  NIANTIC — A woman who had been jail for five days died Thursday after being found with a ligature around her neck the previous evening. The Connecticut Department of Correction said  Monica Piette, 32, had entered York Correctional Institution in Niantic on December 16. During a routine check at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, corrections officers found Piette in her cell with a ligature tied to her neck. She was alone in the cell at the time.  Staff members attempted to revive her [&h
  
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• Busy Travel Day by Air and on the Roads

  23-12-2016 18:55
  
  Expect delays at Bradley Airport and on the roads as people head out to destinations for the holidays.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Video shows boy caught on ski lift in tense moment at resort

  23-12-2016 18:53
  
  SUNDANCE, Utah — A scary scenario at Sundance Resort was caught on camera Wednesday when a boy skiing with his family got caught on a ski lift. It happened when the boy was trying to exit the ski lift at one of the resort’s stations. The boy’s backpack got stuck in the chair, leaving him dangling from the chair as it continued up the mountain. Phil Warner had come to Sundance to go skiing with his daughters when the boy in the chair […]
  
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• Man Plunges Car Into Pond at Southington Country Club

  23-12-2016 18:53
  
  An Ohio man crashed into a pond at the Southington Country Club on Thursday night and was taken to the hospital to be treated for hypothermia.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Week 2 Bowl Preview – Part 2

  23-12-2016 18:50
  
  By Mike Bachini, CBS Connecticut
  Connecticut (CBS) – This week has gone according to plan with the exception of last night’s Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. One of the toughest things to factor in when analyzing or predicting bowl games, is the possibility of one team failing to show up to play. Last night it was Colorado State, and last Saturday it was Houston. Idaho was clearly the more motivated team, and played in what was basically a home game. By the time Colorado State’s offen
  
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• Father flying alone with fussy 8-month-old baby helped by passenger

  23-12-2016 18:45
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas father’s flight with his fussy 8-month-old son became a bit easier thanks to the kindness of a fellow passenger. Evan Hughes, 32, was flying home to Fort Worth, Texas from Chicago when he was forced to take a separate flight from his wife, Kari, due to winter weather, WFAA reports. After booking his flight, Hughes was scheduled to arrive in Texas before his wife, so he took little Ki from Chicago to Atlanta and […]
  
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• Ho-ho-holdup: Santa hands out candy canes at a bank – and robs it

  23-12-2016 18:36
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — ‘Twas four days before Christmas When Santa walked in To the Memphis City Employee Credit Union With candy canes and a grin. He handed out the goodies He had enough to share He wished a “Merry Christmas” To all who were there. Everyone inside Was filled with good cheer Until Santa walked up to a teller And made his intentions clear. He handed her a note No candy cane like before, He demanded all of her money […]
  
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• Man fired gun during Windsor road rage incident: State Police

  23-12-2016 18:03
  
  WINDSOR — State police arrested a Manchester man in connection with a road rage incident on I-91 Thursday where they said he fired a gun at another driver. Jacob Danis, 32, of Manchester, was charged with the unlawful discharge of firearms, breach of peace, assault, and reckless endangerment. He was held on $50,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in court on Friday. Police said they were called to the area of Exit 35A on I-91 South in Windsor around 6:30 […]
  
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• 5 Biggest Surprises In MLB From 2016

  23-12-2016 18:00
  
  Ryan Mayer
  As we look back at the year that was and ahead to the year that is to come, we begin to think of some of the top moments in various fields. For the MLB season, there were plenty of those, however, we’d like to focus on the things that surprised fans and media the most this year from the MLB.
  5) New CBA Bans Smokeless Tobacco
  This one came down recently after the MLB and its players’ association finished negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement that will extend the
  
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• Missing Clinton Man Might Be in New York City

  23-12-2016 17:55
  
  Police are asking for help to find a Clinton man who has been missing since Thursday.
  
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• Clinton police search for missing man

  23-12-2016 17:47
  
  CLINTON — Police are searching for a man last seen Thursday who is in need of his medication. Edmond Frimpong, 32, of Clinton, was reported missing from his home on Thursday. Police said Frimpong does not drive and is believed to have traveled to New York City on a train. Authorities said he used a bank card on lower 8th Ave in New York City. Frimpong is an  African-American male,  6’00 tall and 260 lbs. He does not have any known connections […]
  
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• Man Charged In Road Rage Incident

  23-12-2016 17:46
  
  (Windsor, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – State Police are charging a Manchester man after they say he shot up another person’s vehicle in an apparent road rage incident on a busy interstate Thursday evening.
  Troopers say they responded to the incident around 6:30 p.m. on the southbound side of Interstate 91 by exit 35-A in Windsor.
  There, the victim, 24-year-old Shravan Guda, reported his vehicle having been hit by what appeared to be bullets on the passenger side.
  Following up on a descri
  
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• Department of Justice fines big banks $60 billion in fines for toxic mortgages

  23-12-2016 17:31
  
  LONDON — Since the global financial crisis, the world’s largest banks have agreed to pay close to $60 billion in fines just to the U.S. Department of Justice for creating and selling toxic mortgage-backed investments. These don’t include the tens of billions that the banks have also paid in connection with lawsuits from investors or other federal agencies. The web of complex mortgage-based financial products they created are largely to blame for creating the global financial cr
  
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• Restitution Ordered In Housing Contract Scheme

  23-12-2016 17:28
  
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) – A former West Haven Housing Authority employee has been ordered to pay more than $130,000 in restitution for his role in encouraging the authority to enter into contracts with close friends who owed him money.
  John Sandella, of Orange, pleaded guilty in September to one count of receipt of compensation with the unlawful intent to defeat the purposes of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  He was sentenced to three years of probation Tuesday and ord
  
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• DOL Online System Back Up After Upgrade

  23-12-2016 17:25
  
  The state's online unemployment benefit filing system was offline to perform an upgrade but it is back up and running as of Friday morning.Photo Credit: Department of Labor
  
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• Still shopping? Here’s some last minute gift ideas

  23-12-2016 16:59
  
  HARTFORD — Time is ticking to get your holiday shopping wrapped up. The average consumer hasn’t finished their shopping because there still deciding on what to buy or waited for requests from their loved ones – those hard to shop for people everyone has on their gift giving list. Don’t panic!  There’s still time to find gifts for everyone on your holiday gift list with extended holiday shopping hours, deep retailer discounts and a little bit of shopping strateg
  
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• Aide defends Trump ‘arms race’ remarks

  23-12-2016 16:35
  
  NEW YORK — Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday defended Donald Trump‘s reported comment about an “arms race” and said the President-elect will do whatever it takes to keep America safe. “He will not take anything off the table,” Spicer told host Alisyn Camerota on CNN’s “New Day” when asked about nuclear weapons. “If another country expands theirs, the United States will act in kind.” Spicer argued that Trum
  
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• NY Giants Team Grades: Eagles Crash Giants Playoff Party 24-19

  23-12-2016 16:13
  
  By Curt Macysyn
  For a team on a mission, this will be a tough pill to swallow. If there is one thing that the New York Giants (10-5) have not done this season, it’s beat themselves. The Philadelphia Eagles (6-9) played well enough win, but in reality, Big Blue beat themselves at Lincoln Financial Field. Eli Manning threw three interceptions, including a pick-six to become the Giants’ own chief culprit on Thursday night. But Manning had company, with several dropped passes, and more t
  
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• Putin news conference: Relations with US ‘can’t be worse’

  23-12-2016 16:10
  
  MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed suggestions Friday there was a risk of a new nuclear arms race between Russia and the United States, shrugging off comments by US President-elect Donald Trump on Twitter as “nothing new.” Trump said in a Twitter post Thursday that the United States must “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability.” “As for (comments by) the newly elected president of the US, there is nothing new,” Putin said
  
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• Radio City Rockettes to perform at Trump’s inauguration

  23-12-2016 15:58
  
  WASHINGTON — Looks like President-elect Donald Trump will be holding an Inauguration Day Spectacular. Inaugural committee spokesman Boris Epshteyn told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Thursday that the Radio City Rockettes will perform at the Washington ceremony next month. “We’re extremely excited. We’ve had a ton of great performers, entertainers, and just Americans reaching out wanting to be a part [of it]. And I can announce right now on your air that the Radio City Rocket
  
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• Motorist Charged In Fatal Pedestrian Collision

  23-12-2016 15:54
  
  (Danbury, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – State police are charging a man after a fatal pedestrian versus motor vehicle crash Thursday evening in Danbury.
  The say just after 5:30 p.m., 53-year-old Susan Blaney of Brewster, New York was struck  by a vehicle eastbound on Interstate 84 by exit 7.
  The evading vehicle and its driver were later tracked down in a parking lot in Danbury.
  They say the driver, 43-year-old Roger Leblanc of Torrington failed a sobriety test.
  He’s now charged with
  
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• Hartford Family Hides in Closets as Burglars Rummage Through House

  23-12-2016 15:49
  
  A Hartford family, including a child, hid in closets while two people burglarized their home on Thursday night and police have arrested two suspects.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Three Arrested In Hartford Drug Bust

  23-12-2016 15:48
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — Hartford Police say they worked with agents from the FBI to conduct a drug bust in an apartment on Franklin Avenue yesterday.
  The people who were arrested sold Fentanyl-based heroin labeled with “KD” and “Dance” logos.  The same logos have been used on drugs associated in several overdose deaths.
  Police seized heroin, PCP and cash.
  They say the investigation is ongoing.
  The drug operation was less than two blocks from where a man was wounded
  
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• Crashes Kill Pedestrians In Connecticut

  23-12-2016 15:21
  
  GROTON, Conn. (AP) – Authorities say three pedestrians were hit and killed by cars in separate crashes in Connecticut.
  Police say the victims were fatally struck by vehicles within about an hour of each other on Thursday night.
  The first person was hit in Groton around 5:20 p.m. Police say another victim was hit by a car in Naugatuck about 15 minutes later.
  Connecticut State Police troopers investigated a crash on Interstate 84 eastbound in Danbury that left a pedestrian dead about 30 minu
  
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• Person Hit by 2 Vehicles on Route 8 in Naugatuck

  23-12-2016 15:06
  
  A person is dead after being hit by two cars on Route 8 in Naugatuck on Thursday night.
  
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• The Ultimate Sports Viewing Guide For Christmas Weekend

  23-12-2016 15:00
  
  Ryan Mayer
  The holidays are a time for spending time with family and friends and enjoying their company, right? Okay, that’s what the greeting card companies say at least, but, if you’re not super into discussing your love life for the millionth time with your family (no grandma, I don’t have a girlfriend. No, I don’t want you to set me up with your friend’s granddaughter), then you likely need an excuse to get away and spend some alone time.
  If you need an excuse t
  
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• In humorous video, dad shares downsides of kid’s visit

  23-12-2016 14:24
  
  CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine  — Clothes all over the house, milk left out of the fridge, loud gatherings with friends. These are some of a Maine dad’s complaints about his college daughter being home for Christmas. Dan Howard, of Cape Elizabeth, has posted a humorous two-minute video on Facebook in which he describes scenes that are likely familiar to any parent with a child home from college. The video has more than 2.4 million views. Howard shares tales of carrying his daug
  
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• Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run on I-84 in Danbury

  23-12-2016 13:35
  
  An alleged impaired hit-and-run driver accused of killing a pedestrian on Interstate 84 in Danbury Thursday was caught with some help from a witness who followed the pickup and called 911, according to...
  
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• Suspect arrested in Danbury fatal hit and run

  23-12-2016 13:35
  
  DANBURY — State police arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit and run accident Thursday. Roger Leblanc, 43, of Torrington, was charged with manslaughter, operating while under the influence and evading an accident with serious injury. Police said they responded to the scene of an accident at Exit 7 on I-84 Eastbound where a vehicle where a pedestrian had died after being struck. Susan Blaney, 53, of Brewster, NY, died in the accident. Witnesses said a white Chevrolet Silve
  
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• 4 Washington state electors to be fined $1,000 for vote

  23-12-2016 13:00
  
  OLYMPIA, Wash. — Four Washington state electors who cast their vote for someone other than Democrat Hillary Clinton will each be fined $1,000 next week, the secretary of state’s office said Thursday. David Ammons, a spokesman for Secretary of State Kim Wyman, told The Associated Press that the electors will have 60 days to pay the fine, and said the office is putting together an appeals process in case of a challenge. Clinton won the state’s popular vote last month, […]
  
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• Judge: Teen to be tried as adult in attack on Yale professor

  23-12-2016 12:45
  
  NEW HAVEN — A judge has ruled that a New Haven teen will be tried as an adult for his alleged role in the beating of an elderly Yale University professor last year. The New Haven Register reports  the Superior Court judge on Thursday denied pleas from supporters of Aymir Holland to keep the 17-year-old on youthful offender status. Holland and two young men were arrested after the November 2015 attack on the 79-year-old professor in New Haven. Holland faces charges […]
  
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• Malta Prime Minister: Passengers disembarking hijacked jet

  23-12-2016 12:14
  
  VALLETTA, Malta — The office of Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says passengers have been leaving the jet that was hijacked Friday. The premier has spoken to his Libyan counterpart, Fayez Serraj, about the hijacking of a Libyan plane, which landed on the Mediterranean island earlier Friday. Serraj is leading the so-called Presidency Council and National Unity Government, both brokered by the United Nations as part of peace efforts to heal the country’s rift and end divisions. Li
  
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• Malta: Libyan plane presumed to be hijacked has landed

  23-12-2016 12:14
  
  VALLETTA, Malta — Malta airport says a Libyan plane has landed at the Mediterranean island and that there appear to be two hijackers on board. The Malta airport authority said all emergency teams had been dispatched to the site of what it called an “unlawful interference” on the airport tarmac. Earlier Friday, Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, said in a tweet that there was a “potential hijack situation” involving an internal Libyan flight that was divert
  
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