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• Firefighters Battle Brush Fire at Giuffrida Park in Meriden

  15-04-2017 23:37
  
  Firefighters in Meriden are battling a brush fire off Westfield Road, according to fire department dispatchers.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Woodbridge Students Raise Money for Bone Marrow Registry

  15-04-2017 22:56
  
  Dozens of students in Woodbridge gave up their Saturday to give back by raising money and awareness for the bone marrow registry called Be the Match.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Martinez Crazy Wild, Yanks Top Cards 3-2 For 6th Win In Row

  15-04-2017 22:54
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cardinals ace Carlos Martinez put on a historically uneven performance, walking a career-high eight while striking out 11 and handing CC Sabathia and the New York Yankees a 3-2 win Saturday.
  The Yankees won their sixth straight despite tying a team record by fanning 17 times. They got plenty of help from sloppy St. Louis, which at 3-8 is off to its worst start in 20 years and has the poorest record in the NL.
  Martinez’s misadventures on the mound — he also airm
  
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• Settlement Talks Planned In Police Brutality Lawsuit

  15-04-2017 22:48
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Settlement talks are planned in a lawsuit against a former Meriden police officer who pushed a handcuffed suspect who fell and fractured his skull at the police department in 2010.
  Discussions are scheduled Monday in federal court in Hartford in the lawsuit against Evan Cossette, son of Meriden Police Chief Jeffry Cossette.
  The lawsuit filed by Pedro Temich alleges excessive force and violations of his constitutional rights. Cossette was convicted of criminal charge
  
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• Hartford Firefighters Rescue Goose from Storm Drain

  15-04-2017 22:48
  
  Hartford firefighters jumped into action to help rescue a goose that got stuck in a storm drain at Bushnell Park Saturday.Photo Credit: Hartford Fire DepartmentThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Danielson Man Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges

  15-04-2017 21:12
  
  State police arrested a man on drunk driving charges and seized a gun during a traffic stop in Killingly early Saturday morning.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• Direct Wine Sales, Beer Machines Among Host Of Alcohol Bills

  15-04-2017 20:21
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Whether legalizing machines that automatically dispense beer and wine or allowing Connecticut consumers to purchase wine from out-of-state retailers, there are many alcohol bills still on tap for this year’s General Assembly session.
  With less than two months to go until their adjournment deadline, state lawmakers also must decide whether to pass Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s now-perennial proposal to scrap a decades-old law prohibiting retailers fr
  
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• A Taste of Summer for Easter?

  15-04-2017 17:33
  
  We're forecasting another big warm-up and this time it arrives just in time for the Easter holiday.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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• Community Mourns Derby Man Killed in Seymour Crash

  15-04-2017 17:14
  
  Friends and family came together for a vigil for Shyheim Samuel in Derby on Friday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Litchfield County Dispatcher Helps Deliver Baby

  15-04-2017 17:01
  
  Litchfield County is celebrating one of its emergency dispatchers for instructing a couple on how to deliver a baby on Friday.Photo Credit: Litchfield County Dispatch
  
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• Registration Deadline For Special Elections Approaching

  15-04-2017 16:49
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Time is running out for people to register to vote in Connecticut’s latest special election.
  Tuesday marks the deadline for eligible voters to register by mail or online for special elections in the 7th and 68th Assembly Districts.
  April 24 is the deadline to register in person.
  In the 7th district, which includes Hartford, voters are filling the seat vacated by Democrat Douglas McCrory. In the 68th district, which includes Watertown and Woodbury, voters are fi
  
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• Casino Proposal To Be Heard Monday

  15-04-2017 16:44
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Lawmakers will hear about a proposal that could lead to someone else developing a new Connecticut casino besides the federally recognized tribes.
  The General Assembly’s Finance Revenue and Bonding Committee is scheduled to hear testimony Monday on proposed legislation requiring state agencies to develop and issue a request for proposals for a business or tribe to develop, manage, operate and maintain a possible casino.
  Among other things, responders to the RFP
  
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• Litchfield Principal Accused in Choate Sexual Abuse Report

  15-04-2017 15:37
  
  Many of the accused teachers in the Choate Rosemary Hall sexual abuse report were able to get other teaching jobs after leaving the elite boarding school in Wallingford.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Speedy the goat saves family from a fire

  15-04-2017 05:34
  
  POINSETT COUNTY, Ark. — Don’t let this little goat fool you. Speedy – the loud family pet – is now being hailed a hero. “I was in the living room sleeping,” said Abigail Bruce. The 10-year-old said her sleep was interrupted Saturday night by Speedy. The goat was jumping on her legs and then her chest. He wasn’t giving up until his message got across. “I was thinking ‘What’s happening?’ And all I seen was s
  
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• Parents oblige 3-year-old who wanted a poop-themed birthday party

  15-04-2017 05:32
  
  ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A St. Louis mom got an unexpected answer when she asked her little girl how she would like to celebrate her third birthday. Rebecca’s daughter Audrey said she wanted a “poop” theme. Her parents went with it, and gave her the party she wanted. “I feel like in this time of Facebook and Pinterest, we sometimes get caught up in trying to impress other adults,” Rebecca tells the Huffington Post. “This party wasn’t for me, it […]
  
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• Major Renovations Begin at North Haven Shopping Center

  15-04-2017 05:26
  
  Major renovations are underway at the North Haven Shopping Center on Washington Avenue after a new developer completed a multi-million dollar purchase of the property.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Connecticut Immigrant Community to Miss 'Ally' in Governor Malloy

  15-04-2017 05:21
  
  Governor Dannel Malloy has been an ally for the immigrant community in Connecticut, according to John Lugo, an organizer for Unidad Latino En Accion in New Haven.
  
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• Middletown's 'Wild Bill' Dies at 70

  15-04-2017 05:12
  
  Bill Ziegler, known as "Wild Bill", the owner of a nostalgia shop in Middletown, died at 70 on Tuesday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Wilbur Cross High School Drama Teacher Accused of Sexual Assault

  15-04-2017 05:09
  
  A Wilbur Cross High School drama teacher is accused of sexual assault, according to the school.Photo Credit: Shutterstock / maroke
  
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• New London Looks at Water Taxi Co. to Manage Docks, Moorings

  15-04-2017 05:09
  
  With the summer season almost here, the City of New London is looking for ways to tout its waterfront and all its downtown area has to offer.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Long Night For Red Sox

  15-04-2017 05:07
  
  By KEN POWTAK  Associated Press
   BOSTON (AP) _ Logan Morrison hit a grand slam and Shane Peterson homered in his first big league at-bat since 2015, two of the career-high four homers allowed by Cy Young Award winner Rick Porcello in the Tampa Bay Rays’ 10-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Friday night.
  Chris Archer (2-0) gave up one run in 5 2/3 innings, ending his 11-game losing streak against the Red Sox.
  Brad Miller and Steven Souza Jr. also homered for the Rays, who were
  
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• Cloudy Saturday with a chance of showers; warm, sunny Easter Sunday

  15-04-2017 05:05
  
  Clouds will roll in Saturday afternoon as a warm front approaches. There is a chance for a shower towards sunset. But showers are more likely Saturday night followed by a big warm-up Easter! Temperatures will soar into the 70s and 80s on Sunday! Rain should end before the sun rises. The rest of the day will be partly cloudy, breezy and warm.  An isolated shower is possible towards sunset but most towns will stay dry for family fun and Easter egg […]
  
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• Marlins Edge Mets

  15-04-2017 04:55
  
  By STEVEN WINE   AP Sports Writer
   MIAMI (AP) _ J.T. Realmuto hit a game-ending RBI double with two out in the ninth inning, and the Miami Marlins snapped the New York Mets’ five-game win streak with a 3-2 victory on Friday night.
  The Marlins avoided extra innings after a 16-inning loss to the Mets on Thursday.
  New York’s Noah Syndergaard allowed two runs, one earned, in six innings, and his ERA soared to 0.95. Syndergaard struck out four and still hasn’t walked
  
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• Widow can sue over NASA sting operation to ‘forcibly seize’ moon rock

  15-04-2017 04:50
  
  LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. – A 75-year-old widow in tough financial straits reached out to NASA about selling a speck of moon rock her late husband had given her. Joann Davis then became the target of a sting operation at a Denny’s that a federal appeals court suggested Thursday was outrageous overkill. The lead agent “organized a sting operation involving six armed officers to forcibly seize a Lucite paperweight containing a moon rock the size of a rice grain from an […]
  
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• 10 Facts About the Hartford Yard Goats, Dunkin' Donuts Park

  15-04-2017 04:44
  
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• Yankees Deal Cards A Loss

  15-04-2017 04:24
  
  JAKE SEINER   AP Sports Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) _ Masahiro Tanaka got back on track with 6 1/3 effective innings, Aroldis Chapman escaped his own jam for his third save in three days and the New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 on Friday night for their fifth straight win.
  Chapman allowed a two-out walk to Randal Grichuk and a double to pinch-hitter Jose Martinez before Dexter Fowler _ the closer’s teammate on the World Series champion Cubs last year _ grounded out to s
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit from widow of man killed by train in Darien

  15-04-2017 03:37
  
  BRIDGEPORT — A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man killed by a train that she said was on the wrong track. Jamey Murphy sued Metro-North Railroad after her husband was killed at the station in Darien in 2013. The railroad provides commuter service between New York City and Connecticut The suit said Kevin Murphy slipped on ice on the platform and was hit by a train traveling 70 miles per hour. Murphy’s lawyer, […]
  
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• Speculation growing as to who will run for CT Governor in 2018

  15-04-2017 02:31
  
  HARTFORD —  After Gov. Dannel Malloy announced he would not seek a third term speculation has been growing about who will take over as the state’s next Chief Executive. “I would say right now. Today. It really is the beginning,” said Professor Gary Rose, Chairman of the Political Science, Government and Global Studies Department at Sacred Heart University. “The fall is when I think things are going to become extremely visible.” Several Republicans an
  
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• Report: Former teacher worked years in Connecticut schools after sex abuse allegations

  15-04-2017 01:49
  
  HARTFORD —  Choate Rosemary Hall released Thursday a 48 page investigation that details decades of sexual misconduct involving former faculty and staff member. Some of the abuse was never reported and some reported cases were kept secret within its walls. “A prestigious school. It’s probably the best school for children to participate and go to,” said Wallingford resident, Natalie Corris. Choate hired a law firm out of New York to investigate after alumni came f
  
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• Rehabbed bald eagle set free in Suffield

  15-04-2017 01:01
  
  SUFFIELD — A Good Friday was extra special in Suffield. After being discovered by a construction crew about two weeks ago at the Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail in Suffield, a 13-year-old female eagle that had been likely attacked by another eagle over territory, is back in the air. “I stopped to watch him and then we realized it was injured,” said Danny Hinckley of Hinckley Construction. “I had a jacket so I took my jacket and put it over […]
  
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• New London Man Arrested On A Child Pornography Charge

  15-04-2017 00:20
  
  (NEW LONDON,Conn./CBS Connecticut)  –  New London Police have arrested a  local man  on a charge of Possession of Child Pornography.The investigation stemmed from an earlier arrest of  41 year old David Gunn in December , when New London Police responded to a  local pharmacy on the report of a man  printing photographs   believed to be child pornography on the  store’s  photo machine.Gunn was arrested that day   for unr
  
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• Branford teen first pediatric patient to try artificial pancreas

  15-04-2017 00:14
  
  BRANFORD —  Those battling Type 1 Diabetes now have access to a new tool in their fight. A Branford teen is the first pediatric patient in the world to realize the benefits of the new technology. Being a high school freshman is tough enough. “I have field hockey and track and a musical and best buddies,” said a beaming Claire Bickel, 14, a freshman at Branford High School, who must also find time to manage Type 1 Diabetes, which was […]
  
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