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• WTIC’s Closing Bell Stock Report: May 5, 2017

  05-05-2017 23:03
  
  See where the market closed today with WTIC’s Closing Bell Report, brought to you by Toomey Investment Management, Inc.
  
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• Keidel: LeBron Passes Kareem, Sports World Shrugs

  05-05-2017 21:36
  By Jason Keidel
  Sometimes an athlete is so singularly great for so long his deeds become common, if not soporific.
  This NBA season morphed into the Russell Westbrook show, the pyrotechnic point guard stuffing the stat sheet like no one since Oscar Robertson. Somewhat lost in the personal greatness was the professional failure. If winning is the main metric of the greats, then Oklahoma City’s season didn’t match the hype, with 47 wins and a rather disappointing, first-round boot from
  
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• Todd Feinburg: Republican Health Care Bill Passes House.. Now What?

  05-05-2017 20:14
  
  John Thomas, professor at the Quinnipiac University School of Law, talks about the latest on the HealthCare Bill. Also do you support tax increases to balance the budget? What about talking about supporting President Trump in public?
  
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• Police ID Man Killed In Clinton Crash

  05-05-2017 17:44
  (CLINTON,Conn./CBS Connecticut)  –  Clinton Police continue to investigate a fatal Thursday afternoon  head on crash  at the intersection of Route 81 and Rocky Ledge Drive.The operators were the only ones in the vehicles.Both had to be extricated  by the  Fire Department.
  One of the victims was pronounced dead upon arrival at an area hospital. Police, Friday, identified him as Andrew Asermely, 60, or Killingworth.
  The other driver, Deidre Koziel, 48, of Middle
  
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• Dress Code Crackdown Suspends 150 Students, Brings Criticism

  05-05-2017 16:46
  
  By MICHAEL MELIAAssociated Press
  WATERBURY, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – The suspension of over 150 high school students for dress code violations is bringing criticism to a Connecticut district of predominantly Hispanic and black students that has been under scrutiny for low numbers of minority teachers.
  The students were called out of class by loudspeakers dozens at a time and ordered to sit out the next school day for wearing hoodies, forbidden colors or other violations.
  The distri
  
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• New Rules For Lobstering In Southern New England Up For Vote

  05-05-2017 16:08
  
  PATRICK WHITTLEAssociated PressPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New restrictions on lobster fishing are up for a vote as regulators try to slow the loss of the valuable crustaceans from southern New England waters.
  Scientists say populations of lobsters off of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts have declined as waters have warmed. A board of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is scheduled to vote on new management measures Monday and Tuesday.
  Fishing managers are consi
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Will The I-84/ I-91 Interchange Move?

  05-05-2017 15:33
  Jenna Carlesso, reporter for the Hartford Courant, discusses the DOT, which is considering a plan to move the I-84 and I-91 interchange north of downtown Hartford.
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Will The -84/ I-91 Interchange Move?

  05-05-2017 15:33
  
  Jenna Carlesso, reporter for the Hartford Courant, discusses the DOT, which is considering a plan to move the I-84 and I-91 interchange north of downtown Hartford.
  
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• Police: Driver Ends Up In Canal

  05-05-2017 15:25
  (Windsor Locks, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – There were no serious injuries early this morning when Windsor Locks Police say a car traveling at a high rate of speed drove into a canal at the intersection of Church and Main Streets.
  A witness reported the incident to police a little before 12:30 a.m.
  According to officers, the vehicle was headed south on Route 159 when it went through a guardrail and ended up in the canal, before becoming completely submerged.
  Police conducted a field sobriety
  
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• Charge Against Ex-Hartford School Administrator Dismissed

  05-05-2017 15:16
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A judge has dismissed a risk of injury to a minor charge against a former Hartford public schools administrator who had been charged with sending sexually explicit text messages to a 13-year-old girl.
  The charge was dismissed at the request of a defense attorney for Eduardo “Eddie” Genao, who said in his motion that Connecticut authorities lacked jurisdiction in the case because when the alleged messages were sent, Genoa was in Atlanta
  
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• Ray Dunaway: State Budget Update

  05-05-2017 15:15
  Keith Phaneuf, State Budget report for CTMirror.org looks at our state budget– what is happening, his take on tax increases, and state employee Union concessions.
  
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• Ray Dunaway: What a New Casino Could Do For Hartford

  05-05-2017 15:05
  Sen John Fonfara, D-Hartford and co-chairman of the finance, revenue and bonding committee, asks what casino expansion to the north of Hartford could do for the capital city? Would it bring more events to the XL Center?
  
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• Ray Dunaway: The State Income Tax Keeps Eroding

  05-05-2017 15:01
  
  Kevin Lembo, State Comptroller has announced that continued erosion of the state income tax – likely due to a combination of investors relying more on tax-friendly investment funds, an economic trend towards lower-paying jobs and population loss – has increased the current fiscal year deficit to $393.4 million.
  
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• This Morning With Ray Dunaway May 5, 2017

  05-05-2017 14:53
  Here’s what’s coming up this morning with Ray Dunaway.
  7:20- Aaron Sibarium is a junior at Yale University and a former opinion editor of the Yale Daily News. He wrote a piece on NRO online about Yale’s “Starving” Grad Students, Stuffed with Nonsense.
  7:50- Erik Semmel, Vice President TAB Computer Systems, Inc. discusses a very tricky phishing scam that takes advantage of Google Docs. It’s making its way around the web, and since it uses a google.com URL and e
  
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• Anthem Asks Supreme Court To Review Blocked Cigna Deal

  05-05-2017 14:43
  
  By TOM MURPHYAP Health Writer
  INDIANAPOLIS (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Health insurer Anthem is not ready to give up its $48-billlion bid for rival Cigna, which is based in Bloomfield, and now hopes to find a favorable audience in the U.S. Supreme Court.
  The Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurer is asking the court to review last week’s rejection by a federal appeals court.
  That court upheld a federal judge’s ruling that said the deal would further reduce competition in an already conc
  
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• Neighborhood Fed Up With Dirt Bikes And ATVs

  05-05-2017 14:12
  
  WATERFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Residents of one Connecticut town say their neighborhood has become like the Wild West on weekends, with people riding dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles illegally on their property.
  Waterford police are trying to contain the riders, but they often don’t stop for police and have no license plates for identification.
  WVIT-TV reports that the riders appear to be minors, and operate at high speeds. The riders are also often unregistered and u
  
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• Police: ‘Person Of Interest’ In Woman’s Death Found Camping In Union

  05-05-2017 13:47
  
  UNION, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – State police say a man found camping in the woods in the town of Union is a “person of interest” in the death of a woman found at a home in New Fairfield Tuesday.
  Police say Steven Flood, 32, of no certain address, was found with the woman’s car Thursday. He has been charged with third-degree larceny.
  Investigators have labelled the woman’s death “suspicious.” Authorities have not publicly identified the woman, or disclos
  
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• Police: Hernandez Cited Bible Passage John 3:16 In Suicide

  05-05-2017 09:43
  
  DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer
  BOSTON (CBS Connecticut and AP) — Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez wrote a reference to a biblical passage in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his prison cell before he hanged himself with a bed sheet, state police said in an investigative report released Thursday.
  The former New England Patriots tight end was found naked April 19 at the Souza-Baranowski prison, where he was serving a life sentence in the 2013 murder of a man who had bee
  
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• Orioles Soar At Fenway

  05-05-2017 04:49
  
  By JIMMY GOLEN  AP Sports Writer
   
   
   BOSTON (AP) _ Manny Machado hit a long three-run shot for his third homer of the series and the Baltimore Orioles capped four tense days at Fenway Park with an 8-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night.
  Machado hit a 466-foot drive over the Green Monster during a five-run fourth inning. Seth Smith had four of Baltimore’s 17 hits.
  In a four-game set marred by beanballs, brushbacks and racial rancor, the finale was a sedate af
  
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• Red Sox Wright Out For The Season

  05-05-2017 02:42
  
   BOSTON (AP) _ The Boston Red Sox say knuckleballer Steven Wright needs knee surgery and will miss the rest of the season.
  The team said before Thursday night’s game against Baltimore that the right-hander will have an operation to repair the cartilage in his left knee next week.
  Red Sox manager John Farrell said there wasn’t one thing that caused the injury. Wright pitched on Saturday and came out without any complaints, according to Dave Dombrowski, the team’s president
  
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• 1 person dead following car crash in Clinton; police investigating

  05-05-2017 01:12
  
  CLINTON —  Police have confirmed one person has died following a two car head on crash Thursday afternoon. Clinton police said around 3:43 p.m., first responders were called to a scene of a reported two car head on collision with serious injuries near the intersection of Route 81 and Rocky Ledge Drive in Clinton. Police said when they arrived, it was determined that both drivers were seriously injured and both victims needed help from the fire department to&nb
  
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• Team 26 leaves D.C. for Newtown, cycling to raise awareness on gun violence

  05-05-2017 00:34
  
  NEWTOWN — For the 5th consecutive year, Team 26 has hit the road. The cyclists left the nation’s capitol on Thursday with plans to roll into Newtown on Sunday, May 7. Team 26 is a group of cyclists who joined together after the Sandy Hook Tragedy, in honor of the 26 victims. They ride and rally to raise awareness on gun violence. While pushing Congress to pass stricter gun control laws, which they say would make Americans safer. Elect
  
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• One Dead In Clinton Crash

  05-05-2017 00:33
  
  (CLINTON,Conn./CBS Connecticut)  –  Clinton Police continue  to investigate a fatal Thursday afternoon  head on crash  at the intersection of Route 81 and Rocky Ledge Drive.The operators were the only ones in the vehicles.Both had to be extricated  by the  Fire Department.
  One of the victims was pronounced dead upon arrival at an area hospital.The other driver  was  seriously injured.
  The names of the victims have not been released, pending noti
  
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