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• Sound Off CT: Hillary and the Blame Game

  01-06-2017 23:50
  John Hinderaker, President of Center of the American Experiment, a think tank headquartered in Minnesota, talks with Jim and Will about Hillary Clinton and “the blame game.”
   
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Budget Updates With Sen Len Fasano

  01-06-2017 23:25
  
  Sen Len Fasano, Senate Republican President Pro Tempore, shares the latest on the budget debate.
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• WTIC’s Closing Bell Stock Report: June 1, 2017

  01-06-2017 23:01
  
  See where the market closed today with WTIC’s Closing Bell Report, brought to you by Toomey Investment Management, Inc.
  
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• Ray Dunaway: The Effects of Withdrawing From The Paris Climate Accord

  01-06-2017 23:00
  
  Robert Tracinski, writer with the Federalist, looks at what it would mean for the US to withdraw from The Paris Accord Climate deal.
   
  
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• Brewers Chase Mets

  01-06-2017 22:47
  By BEN WALKER   AP Baseball Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) _ Chase Anderson pitched seven shutout innings and the Brewers benefited _ temporarily, anyway _ when a Milwaukee bat boy bumped into Mets infielder Wilmer Flores on a foul popup Thursday in a 2-1 victory over New York.
  NL Central-leading Milwaukee won the last two at Citi Field to salvage a four-game split.
  The kooky play came in the fourth inning with the Brewers ahead 2-0 after they loaded the bases with one out.
  Eric Sogard lofted a
  
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• Ray Dunaway: President Obama’s New Rules

  01-06-2017 22:40
  Joseph Lawler, Economics Writer at The Washington Examiner, discusses his piece on the surge in New Rules by President Obama last year.
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Online Competition For Optometrists

  01-06-2017 22:28
  
  Brian Lynch, Legislative Chair of the Connecticut Association of Optometrists, talks Connecticut’s optometrists, sharply focused on banning online competition.
   
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Choral Fantasy and Mystical Songs’

  01-06-2017 22:22
  
  Adam Boyles, Assistant Conductor of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, is about to finish up his first full season with the HSO.
  He will be conducting his first Masterworks program in June for “Choral Fantasy and Mystical Songs” running June 9-11th. Get a preview of the show…
  
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• Delay In Probation Ruling In UConn Death

  01-06-2017 22:12
  ROCKVILLE, Conn. (AP) – A judge has delayed rulings on whether to grant probation programs to six University of Connecticut students charged withalcohol crimes related to the death of a fellow student who was accidentally run over by a fire department vehicle.
  The students’ lawyers submitted documents supporting their applications for accelerated rehabilitation Thursday in Rockville Superior Court.
  Judge Carl Taylor continued the cases to June 29.
  The students are charged in connect
  
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• Charges In Farmington Building Crash

  01-06-2017 21:14
  
  (Farmington, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Police in Farmington are charging a Vernon man with driving a box truck into a building this week.
  They say 48-year-old Steven Myska did suffer a medical emergency in the crash on Tuesday on Route 4 in town.
  He’s been cited for failure to drive in the proper lane.
  Myska’s vehicle slammed into a building containing a Subway sandwich shop.
  No other injuries were reported.
  Farmington police say Myska’s license was seized and transmitted
  
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• Download Tickets To an Advance Screening of ‘MY COUSIN RACHEL’

  01-06-2017 20:08
  
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• WWE Insiders Pick Extreme Rules 2017

  01-06-2017 20:00
  
  By Chuck Carroll
  Looking at the WWE Extreme Rules card, it seems that a lot of the winners are foregone conclusions. The intrigue from those matches is how the “extreme” angle play out. Case in point: Alexa Bliss and Bayley are wrestling for the Raw Women’s Championship in a kendo stick on a pole match. I’ll spare you the suspense and tell you that Alexa Bliss is going to retain. However, the intrigue is in how she will win. Will the women channel The Sandman from ECW and
  
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• Cyclist, Driver Injured In Milford Crash

  01-06-2017 19:11
  (Milford, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – In Milford police say they’re investigating a crash that left a motorcyclist and driver with injuries.
  They say late Wednesday afternoon, a vehicle was turning south on to North Street from Sigwin Drive.
  Around the same time, officers say the cyclist was traveling north on North Street, approaching Sigwin Drive when the two collided.
  The motorcyclist was rushed to Bridgeport Hospital with serious injuries. The driver of the motor vehicle was transpo
  
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• Buildings At UConn Evacuated After Gas Line Struck

  01-06-2017 17:43
  STORRS, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – At least two buildings on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs were evacuated late Thursday morning after a construction crew hit a natural gas line with a backhoe.
  The excavator was working to clear the scene of a fire that burned down a historic landscaping barn May 8 on the eastern end of campus when the mishap occurred around 11 a.m., said university spokesperson Stephanie Reitz.
  People were cleared from the UConn Dairy Bar and the Jones acad
  
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• Police: Glastonbury Chemical Spill Was Intentional

  01-06-2017 15:51
  GLASTONBURY, Conn (CBS Connecticut) – Glastonbury police have arrested a Hartford man for allegedly causing, on purpose, a chemical spill at his former employer.
  The spill of sodium hydroxide, at Connecticut Galvanizing on Commerce Street, occurred in 2015. Police say Manuel Sastre, 54, had been terminated from the company a few months prior to the spill.
  Sastre is charged with third-degree burglary, first-degree criminal mischief, and discharge into waters of the state without a permit, s
  
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• Aunt Of Convicted Arsonist Gets A Year In Prison

  01-06-2017 15:11
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – The aunt of a Connecticut teenager in prison for setting fires that terrorized a town has herself been sentenced to time behind bars.
  The Courant reports that Theresa Izzo, of Enfield, was sentenced to a year in prison for fabricating evidence and witness tampering.
  Prosecutors say she tried to provide an alibi for her nephew, 18-year-old Davidson Izzo, whom she described as her son. She raised her nephew because his own mother died when he was an
  
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• Republicans Accuse Democrats Of Breaking Finance Law

  01-06-2017 13:41
  FAIRFIELD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – In an elections complaint, Republicans in a Connecticut town are accusing Democrats of receiving illegal in-kind contributions.
  The Connecticut Post reports the Republican Town Committee chairman in Fairfield announced the complaint a week before a special Board of Selectman election.
  Chairman James Millington alleges the Democratic Town Committee should have paid $60,000 in rent for their party headquarters. He says financial statements show the
  
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• This Morning With Ray Dunaway June 1, 2017

  01-06-2017 12:50
  Here’s what’s coming up this morning with Ray Dunaway.
  6:50- Brian Lynch, Legislative Chair of the Connecticut Association of Optometrists, talks Connecticut’s optometrists, sharply focused on banning online competition.
  7:20- Sen Len Fasano, Senate Republican President Pro Tempore, shares the latest on the budget debate.
  8:20- Robert Tracinski look at what it would mean for the US to withdraw from The Paris Accord Climate deal.
  8:50- Joseph Lawler, Economics Writer at The Wash
  
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