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• Man in critical condition after being shot in face while sitting in car in Hartford

  29-12-2016 23:31
  
  HARTFORD — A man is in the hospital after a serious shooting Thursday morning. At about 1:15 a.m., Hartford Police responded to an address on Adelaide Street after ShotSpotter picked up five shots being fired in the area. While responding, a report was made to police that a gunshot victim was in a building on Barker Street. Police found the victim in a fourth-floor apartment, and saw he had six gunshot wounds to the entire right side of his body, […]
  
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• Office of the Child’s Advocate investigating 3 deaths of foster kids in 1 month

  29-12-2016 23:18
  
  HARTFORD — Several children who were in foster care died in Connecticut in the last month, leading to some serious questions. The Office of the Child’s Advocate is investigating why and how three children in the care of the state died. “These deaths are enormous tragedies,” said Faith vos Winkle, of the Office of the Child’s Advocate. “When the state steps in to take on the parent role, we need to make sure we’re doing it as effectively as we […]
  
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• Rain Ending as Snow

  29-12-2016 23:13
  
  Rain is ending as snow across the state.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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• Malloy Administration Makes New Cuts To Town Education Funding

  29-12-2016 22:53
  
  How much is your town being cut? Click for a full list in PDF form: Education Cost Sharing Town Cuts
  (CBS Connecticut) — The Malloy administration has made a new round of education funding cuts to cities and towns.
  The cuts total $20-million dollars.  Different towns and cities will lose different amounts of money, depending on a formula.
  The cuts come midway through the current fiscal year, making it more difficult for towns to budget for them.
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• Former Shelton High School student arrested for hacking school system’s server

  29-12-2016 22:24
  
  SHELTON — A teenager has been arrested after police say the teen hacked his school district’s computers. According to Shelton Police, a former Shelton High School student was arrested on Thursday and charged with computer crimes in the third degree. The teen is being held in juvenile detention and will be in court Friday. Police say that between November and December 2015 and March and April 2016, the school district’s internet service was disabled citywide. It was due to a [&h
  
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• Vandals cause about $10,000 in damage to Preston church

  29-12-2016 22:16
  
  PRESTON — Several aspects of a church in Preston were damaged around Christmas, and items were stolen. According to State Police, sometime between when St. Catherine of Siena, a Roman Catholic church, closed at 11:30 a.m. on Christmas Day and reopened at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 28, several thousand dollars of damage was done. At least one, and possibly two people forcibly entered the locked church, and inside broke a 3-foot statue of St. Catherine and several large and […]
  
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• New Britain Fire Displaces 21

  29-12-2016 22:14
  
  NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – Fire struck a six-unit apartment building in New Britain Thursday morning.
  Five of the units in the three-story building at 22 Hurlburt Street were occupied. In all, 21 people were displaced.
  Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after 9 a.m., and the fire was under control in about 30 minutes.
  One woman in the building was taken to a local hospital for smoke inhalation; no firefighters were injured.
  The rear porches of the building suffered h
  
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• Two Children In Foster Care Have Died In Traffic-related Incidents In The Last Week

  29-12-2016 21:49
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — The state Child Fatality Review Panel is investigating the separate traffic-related deaths of two children who were in foster care through the state Department of Children and Families. A third child in foster care, an infant died earlier this month.
  Fourteen year-old Michael Shore was struck and killed by a Jeep and a van on Route 8 in Naugatuck.
  Assistant State Child Advocate Faith VosWinkle says he had gotten out of a vehicle after an argument with foster parents.
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• 1 Transported After Fire at Multi-Family Home in New Britain

  29-12-2016 21:32
  
  One person was taken to the hospital after a fire at a multi-family home on Hurlburt Street in New Britain Thursday morning.Photo Credit: New Britain Fire Department
  
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• State Plans For Natural Gas Expansion Survive Legal Challenge From Heating Oil, Gasoline Dealers

  29-12-2016 21:27
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — The state’s natural gas-reliant Comprehensive Energy Strategy today survived a legal challenge from businesses who sell a competing product.
  The state Supreme Court rejected a legal effort by an association of heating oil and gasoline dealers, who sought to slow down state plans to expand natural gas pipelines in Connecticut.
  Natural gas competes with heating oil as a method of keeping homes warm in the winter, and there have been efforts to push natural gas as a
  
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• Former Shelton Student Launched Cyber Attacks on School: PD

  29-12-2016 21:15
  
  Shelton police have arrested a former Shelton High School student accused of launching cyber attacks against the high school’s internet service.Photo Credit: KNBC
  
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• Boy, 6, Dies After Rollover Crash on I-91 on Christmas Day

  29-12-2016 21:14
  
  A 6-year-old Meriden boy has died after he was thrown from a pickup truck that rolled over on Interstate 91 in North Haven on Christmas morning.Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
  
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• NFL Picks Week 17: Lions Top Packers, Claim First Division Title Since 1993

  29-12-2016 20:47
  
  Bryan Altman
  We’ve come to the end of the line.
  Incredibly, Week 17 and the end of the NFL regular season is upon us, and like every team outside of the 12 NFL teams that are playoff bound, there’s so much I would have done differently, especially last week.
  But, in the words of Mr. Sinatra, “regrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention.”
  Overall, it’s been a good year, and hopefully with a solid Week 17 showing we can finish with a record above
  
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• Obama announces retaliatory actions against Russia for election hacking; Russia considers response

  29-12-2016 20:35
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama took an unprecedented step Thursday in responding to “the Russian government’s aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election.” About an hour later Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would consider retaliatory steps against the United States’ sanctions. Obama said there had been numerous public and private warnings issued to the Russian government beforehand about interfering
  
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• Obama announces retaliatory actions against Russia for election hacking

  29-12-2016 20:35
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama took an unprecedented step Thursday in responding to “the Russian government’s aggressive harassment of U.S. officials and cyber operations aimed at the U.S. election.” The president said there had been numerous public and private warnings issued to the Russian government beforehand about interfering with our election process, and now “necessary and appropriate” actions must be taken in “response to efforts to harm U.S
  
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• College Bowl Preview – Thursday December 29th

  29-12-2016 20:20
  
  By Mike Bachini, CBS Connecticut
  Connecticut (CBS) – Yesterday was needed. Three of yesterday’s games were decided by 14 points. Pittsburgh and Northwestern traded jabs before the Wildcats held on for the win. Utah needed a field goal with less than 2 minutes remaining in the game to outlast Indiana. And Kansas State turned around the fortunes of the Big 12 by beating former Big 12 member Texas A&M. Today there are only three games, but they all will be worth watching.
  Thursday,
  
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• Tow-truck driver killed in hit-and-run crash just over state line on I-95

  29-12-2016 19:58
  
  HARRISON, NY — New York State Police are looking for the public’s help to identify the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run. State Police said that on Thursday morning just before 7 a.m., a hit-and-run crash happened on I-95 northbound, the New England Section near Exit 18B. A tow truck driver was hit and taken to Greenwich Hospital with serious injuries. At about 8:15, the 32-year-old Yonkers man was pronounced dead. The accident is being reconstructed by the N
  
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• ACLU, Commissioner Seek To Put Prison Reforms Into Law

  29-12-2016 19:55
  
  By SUSAN HAIGHAssociated Press
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Civil libertarians are working with the state’s Department of Correction commissioner to put into state law changes he has made to greatly reduce the number of inmates in administrative segregation, commonly known as solitary confinement.
  Connecticut’s ACLU chapter and Commissioner Scott Semple want to ensure such policies remain in place for future administrations, a move that concerns some correctional
  
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• CBS Sports’ Trent Green Breaks Down The Kansas City Chiefs Vs. San Diego Chargers Matchup

  29-12-2016 18:55
  
  By Rick Brown
  The Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers will finish the regular season the way it began – by facing off in an AFC West showdown. However, their seasons have gone in opposite directions. Since the Chiefs’ unlikely overtime win in week one against the Chargers, the Chiefs have earned an 11-4 record and a playoff berth. Meanwhile, the Chargers have had less success with a 5-10 record. Injuries and the inability to close out games have plagued the Chargers all season.
  
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• Keidel: Lions-Packers For NFC North Title A Fitting End To NFL Season

  29-12-2016 18:43
  
  By Jason Keidel
  For a sport that trades on parity, on the notion that every game is essential, it’s fitting that the final game of the NFL season will decide the final playoff spot.
  The Detroit Lions host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, and the winner will be crowned kings of the NFC North. Depending on earlier games, the loser may well toil in winter purgatory, watching the very party they were four quarters from joining.
  Not only are they eternal divisional foes, with epic clashes
  
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• Baby Jesus statue stolen from Naugatuck nativity scene

  29-12-2016 18:41
  
  NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck Police Department is investigating  the theft of a baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity scene. The nativity scene is on Naugatuck‘s Town Green on Church Street. Naugatuck Police are also investigating other incidents that happened Wednesday. The said there was a robbery at the DB Mart on New Haven Road and a suspicious person was reported at an Irving Street home trying to steal Christmas ornaments from the yard there. If anyone has informat
  
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• End Of The Line For Old Berlin Train Station

  29-12-2016 18:21
  
  BERLIN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – The Connecticut Department of Transportation says the Old Berlin Train Station, which burned last week, is being demolished.
  A structural report on the building says it cannot be saved, according to the DOT, which leased the building from Amtrak. Officials say they are saving what they can from the 116-year-old station, such as cast iron radiators. All that was left after the fire were the brick exterior walls.
  The future of the site is unclear.
  The buildi
  
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• Ranking College Basketball’s Six Remaining Unbeatens

  29-12-2016 17:40
  
  by Rob Joyce
  Conference play arrives this week in college basketball, and this year appears to have as much parity as ever. To this point, only six teams go into their leagues with unblemished records. While it’s highly unlikely no one will finish with a “0” in the loss column (no one has done it since Indiana in 1975-76), all six have legitimate reasons to go into conference play with dreams of a deep March run.
  Let’s introduce the remaining half-dozen, and where they ra
  
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• 6-year-old boy dies after Christmas Day crash in North Haven

  29-12-2016 17:38
  
  NORTH HAVEN — A 6-year-old boy from Meriden died after he was ejected from a pickup truck that rolled over in a crash on Interstate 91 in North Haven on Christmas morning. Police said a 2000 Toyota Tundra with a snowplow attached, driven by Lexsis Ariel Walter, 23, of Meriden, was headed south on I-91 at around 8:35 a.m. when it slid into the center median. It rolled over a number of times and crossed into the northbound side of the highway […]
  
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• Stonington Couple Charged With Injuring 5-Week-Old Daughter

  29-12-2016 17:37
  
  STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Stonington couple has been charged with injuring their 5-week old daughter.
  Police say 24-year-old Katrena Aiello and 21-year-old Cody Brown were charged last week and their arrest warrants were released on Wednesday.
  Aiello is being held on $500,000 bond on charges including second-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor. Brown has been released on $50,000 bond on charges including risk of injury to a minor and tampering with evidence.
  Police say they star
  
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• 6-year-old Dies After Christmas Highway Crash In North Haven

  29-12-2016 17:04
  
  (CBS Connecticut) — A 6-year-old boy has died after a one-vehicle Christmas Day crash on I-91 in North Haven.
  State Police say Noah McCoy of Meriden was sitting in the middle of the back seat, in a Toyota Tundra, when the pickup truck slid into the median and rolled over several times.
  The boy was not wearing a seat belt, and he was thrown out of the truck.
  The other three people in the vehicle were wearing shoulder and lap belts, and they survived with minor injuries.
  Twenty-three year-ol
  
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• How did this driver hit 236 consecutive green lights in New York City?

  29-12-2016 17:02
  
  NEW YORK CITY – If you’re an urban driver, you probably feel lucky after hitting two green lights in a row. On December 3, New York Uber driver Noah Forman hit not one or two in a row, but 236. His interest in beating the traffic system started in 2014 when he saw a video of a driver hitting 55 straight green lights. “I just thought I could totally beat that,” Forman told CNN. “After a few years of driving, […]
  
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• Boy, 6, Dies After Rollover Crash in North Haven

  29-12-2016 17:02
  
  A 6-year-old Meriden boy has died after he was thrown from a pickup truck that rolled over on Interstate 91 in North Haven on Christmas morning.Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
  
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• Pour one out: The inventor of red Solo cup has died

  29-12-2016 16:53
  
  2016 is still not done. Before we lost George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds this week, we lost someone who’s probably had just as big an impact on our lives, though you’ve never heard of him: Robert Leo Hulseman. He’s the man who invented the red Solo cup, staple at every party ever. He died last week at age 84. The Solo Cup Company was the family business — Hulseman’s dad started it in 1936 — and Hulseman started […]
  
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• Heavy Rain, Wet Snow as Storm Moves Through

  29-12-2016 16:52
  
  While the major snows will miss Connecticut, beneficial rain and some snow will impact the state today.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Crews Responding to Fire on Hurlburt Street in New Britain

  29-12-2016 16:51
  
  New Britain firefighters are responding to a fire at multi-family home on Hurlburt Street Thursday morning.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• West Hartford Police Investigate Gunfire on Albany Avenue

  29-12-2016 16:47
  
  West Hartford police are investigating after shots rang out near the Calvary Church on Albany Avenue Wednesday night.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Shelton Bus Driver Admits to Taking Methadone, Cough Syrup: Documents

  29-12-2016 16:40
  
  A 55-year-old former Derby bus driver faced a judge on Wednesday after police say he was driving as many as 30 Shelton intermediate students home from school and falling asleep at the wheel.Photo Credit: Snapchat
  
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• CEO resigns after overworked employee commits suicide

  29-12-2016 16:14
  
  TOKYO — The head of the Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has resigned after the suicide of a junior employee was linked to a company culture that required staffers to work huge amounts of overtime. The company confirmed Thursday that its president and CEO, Tadashi Ishii, would step down after its January board meeting. Dentsu, which employs 47,000 people and operates in 140 countries, has been in the spotlight following the suicide of an employee on Christmas Day in 2015. Japanese [&helli
  
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• Police investigate shots fired near West Hartford church

  29-12-2016 16:06
  
  WEST HARTFORD — Police are looking into a shooting that happened in the Calvary Church parking lot on Albany Avenue in West Hartford on Wednesday night. Police said callers reported a disturbance, and one of them reported shots being fired. Hartford Police also responded and when police got there, they saw a a bunch of young people running away from the area. Several of them were detained. Police said there was evidence of a shooting but no victims were found. The shoot
  
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• Winter Weather Advisory in Effect for Litchfield County

  29-12-2016 15:52
  
  A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the northwestern part of the state ahead of a storm that could dump up to 6 inches of snow in some of the Litchfield hills on Thursday.
  
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• 5 Bold NBA Predictions For 2017

  29-12-2016 15:47
  
  By Rahul Lal
  What if I told you back in 2015 that the 2016 NBA Dunk Contest would be as exciting as watching MJ and Dominique go at it in back in 1988? Would it have sounded crazy to say that the Warriors would go on to win 73 regular season games and then add Kevin Durant in the offseason after a messy divorce in OKC? What if I proposed that in between shooting commercials about “bringing one back for the land,” LeBron James actually found a way to do it?
  All that and more happened
  
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• WATCH: live ‘Eagle Cam’ features two eggs about to hatch

  29-12-2016 15:30
  
  FORT MEYERS, Florida — Thousands of people are watching a live camera of an eagle nest in North Fort Myers, Florida, where two eagle eggs are expected to hatch. Mom, Harriet, and dad, M15, are taking turns keeping them warm. The live stream is provided by Southwest Florida Eagle Cam. The website offers this disclaimer: “Eagles are wild birds and anything can happen in the wild. The Southwest Florida Eagle Camera (SWFEC) does not interfere or intervene and allows nature […]
  
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• 5 Bold MLB Predictions For 2017

  29-12-2016 15:01
  
  Ryan Mayer
  2016 is coming to an end and it was a wonderful year for Major League Baseball and its fans. The sport seemed to enjoy a resurgence in popularity, largely due to the fact that the lovable losers, the Chicago Cubs, finally ended their title drought. However, that wasn’t the only reason 2016 was exciting. We saw more young, bright stars break out across the league as the youth infusion continues. It’s looking like we’re set up for a fun next several seasons with all of
  
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• 10 Best Sports Moments Of 2016

  29-12-2016 15:01
  
  Ryan Mayer
  The calendar year of 2016 is coming to a close and boy was it a doozy in the sports world. The Cavaliers brought Cleveland its first title in 50 years. The Cubs broke the curse of the billy goat and ended their 108-year title drought. The year provided us with an endless number of sports highlights, but, for the sake of my sanity, we’ve narrowed it down to the Top 10 of the year.
  10) DeflateGate Mercifully Comes To An End
  Almost a full year and a half after the initial news abou
  
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• This Morning With Ray Dunaway December 29, 2016

  29-12-2016 15:00
  
  Here’s what’s coming up this morning with Ray Dunaway.
  6:50- Dr. Anita Kelsey from the Women’s Heart Program at Saint Francis shares some important tips about women and heart health –  a hot topic of conversation in light of Carrie Fisher’s death. What should women look out for?
  7:20- Shawn Elizabeth George, author of A Place for Sam, joins Ray in the studio.  A Place for Sam is an engaging story about a puzzle piece, Sam, who cannot find her place in the
  
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• Largest indoor, multi-level racing facility to open in Montville

  29-12-2016 14:58
  
  It’s being billed as the largest indoor, multi-level racing facility in the world and its right in our own backyard. The green flag drops on Naskart in Montville on New Years Day. “It took 11 months to get to this point,” said Sales and Marketing Manager Rachel Hannas-Metz. “We are looking forward to seeing what the public thinks and growing our Naskart family. We hope Naskart will help boost tourism to the area.”” The white knuckle, 110,000 square foot thrill
  
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• Berlin truck’s automatic braking system ‘may have saved lives’

  29-12-2016 14:36
  
  BERLIN — German authorities believe the automatic braking system installed in the truck used in the Berlin Christmas market attack may have saved lives, according to a joint investigation by German media outlets. Twelve people were killed and at least 48 more injured when attacker Anis Amri plowed through an open-air Christmas market on the evening of December 19. The truck came to a halt within 87 yards, reports by German media outlets NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung said Wedne
  
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• State Police Seize 10K Oxycodone Pills During Traffic Stop

  29-12-2016 14:31
  
  State police arrested one man after seizing around 10,000 Oxycodone pills during a traffic stop.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• Police ID Man Killed In Stering Crash

  29-12-2016 14:20
  
  STERLING, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – State police have identified the man killed when his pickup truck slammed into a tree in Sterling Wednesday.
  Donald Gould, 50, of Foster, Rhode Island was the sole occupant of the 1993 Ford pickup that hit a tree along Route 14A just before 1 p.m., said state police.
  The crash remains under investigation.
  
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• One Killed in Crash on Route 14A in Sterling

  29-12-2016 14:15
  
  One person was killed when a truck crashed into a tree on Route 14A in Sterling Wednesday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Police: 10,000 Oxycodone Pills Seized During Traffic Stop

  29-12-2016 14:06
  
  MILFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – State police say a West Haven man has been arrested after troopers found 10,000 oxycodone pills valued at $200,000 from his vehicle after a traffic stop.
  Troopers stopped the truck around 3 p.m. Wednesday on Interstate 95 in Milford after spotting vehicle violations. A police dog alerted officers to drugs in the vehicle. A search revealed a bag containing the oxycodone, an opioid.
  Police say 30-year-old John Carlos Torres was arrested after a brief
  
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• Alcohol banned on Metro North trains for New Year’s Eve

  29-12-2016 13:57
  
  HARTFORD — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is banning alcohol trains and at stations from noon New Year’s Eve until noon New Year’s Day. The transit agency said the intent is to maintain orderly travel and safe station and terminal operations. Alcohol will not be permitted on Long Island Rail Road trains and in stations from 11 p.m. Friday through noon Sunday. MTA police officers will be on duty at Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal, stations and trains to enforce t
  
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• Police ID man, 27, gunned down in Bridgeport

  29-12-2016 11:34
  
  BRIDGEPORT — Police in Bridgeport have released the name of a man who was shot to death on Christmas Eve. The Connecticut Post reports that police said Wednesday that 27-year-old Miguel Rivera, of Bridgeport, was gunned down early Saturday morning near North Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said that they are working to catch the suspected shooter. It was the second year in a row that a fatal shooting occurred in the city on the day […]
  
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• Hundreds search woods for Sterling teen missing since Monday

  29-12-2016 11:01
  
  DANIELSON – Hundreds of people, including State Police K9 teams, firefighters, the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection,  using horses, a helicopter, and ATVs, as well as friends, family and neighbors, formed a search party Tuesday and Wednesday to try to find a teen missing from Sterling. And the search will continue on Thursday, according to a Facebook group formed to find the teen, that posted: “Today make Carbuncle Pond the #1 priority.
  
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