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• Wallingford Man Charged With Public Indecency

  06-06-2017 23:26
  
  (HAMDEN,Conn./CBS Connecticut) -Department of Energy and Environmental Protection EnCon Police have arrested a 57 year old Wallingford man after receiving two reports of a man exposing himself and hiking naked in Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden on April 1 and April 9.
  Antony Ingraham was charged with two counts of Public Indecency.He was released on $10,000 bond. Ingraham has a June 19 date in Meriden Superior Court.
  
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• Stronger Hate Crimes Law In Offing For CT

  06-06-2017 22:36
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Connecticut lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed what advocates believe is the strongest hate crimes legislation in the nation.
  Democratic and Republican senators said they hope Tuesday’s unanimous vote sends a strong message to the rest of the country that bigotry will not be tolerated in Connecticut.
  The bill already cleared the House of Representatives and heads to the governor.
  The legislation makes commission of a hate crime a felony. V
  
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• Sound Off CT: Voting Districts and Russian Leaks

  06-06-2017 21:55
  Jim discusses voting districts, Russian leaks, and news of the day.
  
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• Child Found Dead In Torrington

  06-06-2017 21:42
  
  (Torrington, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Police in Torrington say they’re investigating the untimely death of a 15-month-old child.
  The 911 call came in just before 11:00 this morning to a home on South Main Street police said.
  A woman told them her son was unresponsive and needed help.
  Police and first responders arrived and the child was rushed to Charlotte Hungerford Hospital where he later died.
  According to investigators, it appears the child was found unresponsive in the bathtub.
  
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• Exclusive: Errol Spence Jr. Discusses His Win Over Kell Brook, Next Steps As IBF Welterweight Champion

  06-06-2017 21:39
  
  Bryan Altman
  On Saturday, May 27, Errol Spence Jr. walked into enemy territory, stared down one of the best welterweights in the world, and took care of business in front of 30,000 fans – most of whom were hoping to see him falter on the biggest stage of his career.
  He didn’t.
  Spence bested fellow welterweight Kell Brook in his native Sheffield, England to claim the IBF title and solidify him as one of the best welterweights in the world.
  A week and a half removed from the biggest bo
  
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• Ray Dunaway: ZERO Prostate Cancer Race Preview

  06-06-2017 21:30
  Dr. Ryan Dorin, Urologist at Hartford HealthCare Tallwood Urology & Kidney Institute, talks about the ZERO Prostate Cancer Race happening this Saturday, June 10th at Dunkin Donuts Park.
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• Man Accused In Fatal Highway Crash

  06-06-2017 21:24
  (Hartford, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – State Police have arrested a man they say caused a fatal crash last year in Enfield.
  Under arrest is 27-year-old Brett Vernona, who turned himself in at the Troop H barracks in Hartford today.
  Investigators say it was last June 13 that Vernona was traveling southbound on Interstate 91 when his vehicle hit another from behind near exit 48.
  That second vehicle wound up in a grassy area of the right shoulder. A passenger, 48-year-old Carolina McAllister, wa
  
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• Weird Things Fans Have Thrown On The Ice (Aside From Catfish)

  06-06-2017 21:13
  
  by Rob Joyce
  No catfishing here – the center of the hockey world right now is in Tennessee. During the Predators’ run to the Stanley Cup Final, Nashville has established to the rest of the world that it is hockey-crazy, something that seemed a fantasy at best when the expansion franchise came to fruition less than two decades ago. Alas, “Smashville” has been a crazy atmosphere for opponents and a longtime tradition of the fans is now garnering national attention. Since 20
  
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• NBA Players Perform Worse Day After Sending Late Night Tweets, Study Finds

  06-06-2017 21:13
  
  CBS Local– Social media is a convenient tool to bring athletes closer with their fans, but can doing it at the wrong times be detrimental to their performance? According to a study by researchers at Stony Brook University, late-night tweeting from NBA players has shown to lead to a decline in performance the next night at their game.
  The study sifted through more than 30,000 tweets from accounts of 112 players during the hours of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. from 2009 to 2016. The findings were
  
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• Ray Dunaway: A Warning From Journal Inquirer’s Chris Powell…

  06-06-2017 21:10
  
  Chris Powell, managing editor of the Manchester Journal Inquirer is back. WARNING! ACTUAL RELEVANCESURFACES AT STATE CAPITOL.
  Hear more from Powell as the legislative session approaches the finish line.
  
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• Connecticut House Debates Bill That Would Lead To Tolls

  06-06-2017 21:05
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Proponents of legislation that could lead to tolls on Connecticut’s highways say they don’t have enough votes to pass the bill.
  Democratic House Speaker Matt Ritter abruptly ended debate Tuesday after 90 minutes, admitting “we’re going to fall short today … by the narrowest of margins.”
  Lawmakers have said they needed one more vote to pass the bill allowing the Department of Transportation to study where to loc
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Spotlight On Coast2Coast For A Cause

  06-06-2017 20:50
  
  Brett Lehner is one of two courageous UConn School of Medicine students pedaling their bikes 3,500 miles across the country to raise charitable funds to increase nutritional education awareness for children in Connecticut schools.
  The students fly to Seattle on June 9th where they will begin their long journey.  This year’s cause is “An Apple a Day,” a public health project to improve access to and education around nutrition in Connecticut schools.
  Follow them coast2coastf
  
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• Ray Dunaway: How Long Was The Writing On The Wall With Aetna?

  06-06-2017 20:25
  Greg Bordonaro, editor of the Hartford Business Journal, says Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini telegraphed Aetna’s headquarters move out of Hartford years ago.
  Where did it all start?
  
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• CT Peach Crop Expected To Make Comeback

  06-06-2017 20:20
  
  (Middlefield, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – What a difference a year makes. At this time last year, farmers across the state were lamenting the loss of virtually all of their peach crop thanks to a spring cold snap.
  And last year’s drought also impacted the harvest of other produce.
  John Lyman, executive vice president of Lyman Orchards in Middlefield and an 8th generation farmer, says they’ve come a long way in a short period of time thanks to all the rain.
  Lyman estimates the loss
  
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• Farmers Rally At Capitol

  06-06-2017 20:15
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – Farmers rallied at the State Capitol Tuesday, against funding cuts to the state Department of Agriculture, and any budget plan that would fold the department into other state agencies.
  “I can’t imagine that we would not have a standalone Department of Agriculture there to support a state that has growth of new farms faster than any other state in New England,” said dairy farmer Matt Peckham, whose family has been working the land in Woo
  
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• 3 Traditional Indian Recipes To Add To Your Recipe Book

  06-06-2017 20:11
  
  Photo Courtesy of Simon & Schuster
  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author, poet and teacher whose work, including the novels The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and Oleander Girl, has received national and international acclaim. She has been featured in a range of publications, including The New York Times and The Atlantic, and in 2015, she was chosen by the Economic Times as one of twenty Indian women of global influence. She lives in Houston with her husband and two
  
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• Top 5 Vacations For People Who Don’t Like Big Cities

  06-06-2017 20:00
  By Randy Yagi
  America’s busy summer season is just around the corner and vacationers across the country are about to hit the road to points near and far. But many people are hoping to avoid the large crowds and congested roadways associated with major cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Here are just five of the best small town vacations destinations, all with less than 5,000 residents.
  Carmel-By-The-Sea
  With world-class art galleries, fine dining and superb lodging, Carmel-by-
  
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• Best Activities For Summer Thrill Seekers In Connecticut

  06-06-2017 20:00
  By Gillian Burdett
  Summer is vacation time. Even if your work schedule only has room for a long weekend “staycation,” you need time away from ordinary life to adjust your perspective, reinvigorate and re-create yourself.  Lounging on a beach may be fine for some, but if the sands of Hammonasset leave you restless, if you need to be alive in the moment with adrenaline-pumping action, you have options that don’t require traveling to Acapulco for cliff diving or hiring a She
  
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• Lawyer’s Death Ruled Suicide, Not Homicide

  06-06-2017 19:16
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut prosecutor has ruled that the death of an attorney found shot in the head in a wrecked car in 2014 was not a homicide as his family believes and has closed the criminal investigation.
  Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III announced the conclusion of the investigation into Gugsa Abraham “Abe” Dabela’s death Tuesday. The finding supports Redding police’s belief that Dabela killed himself.
  A lawyer for Dabela’s f
  
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• WATCH: Two Predators Fans Celebrate Game 4 Win With Make Out Session On Live TV

  06-06-2017 19:05
  
  Bryan Altman
  The Nashville Predators took down the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4 on Monday night by a final of 4-1, and the win simultaneously made the Stanley Cup Final series a 2-2 tie, and made the entire city of Nashville lose its mind.
  Some fans danced in the streets, some shouted “we want the cup,” some high-fived and hugged joyously, but none of their celebrations compared to the couple that vigorously made out on live TV immediately following the Preds’ big win.
  WSMV re
  
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• Police: Drug Detail Nets Stolen Vehicle, Suspect

  06-06-2017 15:49
  (Hartford, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Hartford Police say detectives from the vice and narcotics division were in the midst of an investigation Monday when they came upon a stolen vehicle with a juvenile behind the wheel.
  They say it was around 6:30 p.m. that they observed the operator drive through a pair of stop signs at a high rate of speed while on an unrelated detail on Pliny Street.
  Detectives in unmarked vehicles followed the suspect vehicle at a safe distance, they say, until the dri
  
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• Jack Kerouac Relative Seeks Political Office In Connecticut

  06-06-2017 14:26
  BROOKLYN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A relative of late Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac is running for political office in a small Connecticut town.
  A.J. Kerouac is running for first selectman in Brooklyn, a town with a population of about 8,200 in the rural northeastern area of the state known as the Quiet Corner.
  The 30-year-old real estate agent tells The Connecticut Post his grandfather was a cousin of Jack Kerouac’s father. Jack Kerouac was from Lowell, Massachusetts,
  
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• This Morning With Ray Dunaway June 6, 2017

  06-06-2017 12:27
  
  Here’s what’s coming up this morning with Ray Dunaway.
  6:50- Dr. Ryan Dorin, Urologist at Hartford HealthCare Tallwood Urology & Kidney Institute, talks about the ZERO Prostate Cancer Race happening this Saturday, June 10th at Dunkin Donuts Park. Get all the details.
  7:20- Chris Powell, managing editor of the Manchester Journal Inquirer is back. WARNING! ACTUAL RELEVANCESURFACES AT STATE CAPITOL. Hear more from Powell as the legislative session approaches the finish line.
  8:20- &
  
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• Man Faces Animal Cruelty Charges After Running Over Geese

  06-06-2017 08:26
  SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A 68-year-old Southington man has been charged with animal cruelty after several witnesses tell police he intentionally ran over a family of geese.
  Police say Thomas Guerrette was driving his pickup truck Friday when he ran over geese attempting to cross the street.
  Guerrette told officers he took his eyes off the road briefly, and when he looked back the geese were in front of him. He says he tried to avoid them.
  However, one witness told officers Guerrette slow
  
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• Air Force Member Charged With Sexual Assault Pleads Guilty

  06-06-2017 08:20
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A man accused in Connecticut of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl he met online while he was in the U.S. Air Force has pleaded guilty in federal court.
  Nicholas Murphy, of Exeter, Rhode Island, has pleaded guilty to one count of traveling to engage in illegal sexual activity with a minor Monday.
  Court documents show Murphy started communicating with the girl through social media.
  Police say Murphy drove to Connecticut and picked up the victim without her parent
  
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• Protestors Arrested

  06-06-2017 03:28
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Six activists are facing misdemeanor charges after police say they attempted to disrupt the state Legislature to voice their concerns about the state budget.
  State Capitol Police on Monday charged the protesters with interference with the General Assembly. Five of the six were also charged with disorderly conduct.
  Police say a group of people gathered in the north rotunda and began singing loudly and chanting, causing a disturbance. When they refused to stop, police say t
  
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• Wooden Butterfly Missing From Sandy Hook Memorial

  06-06-2017 01:09
  SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) _ Police in Connecticut say a missing wooden butterfly that represents one of the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on a mural is being investigated as a theft.
  Police say it’s unclear when the butterfly reported missing Monday was taken from the memorial at the Southington park. Officers didn’t locate any witnesses.
  The hand-painted butterflies at the memorial are dedicated to the victims of the December 2012 shooting in Newtown. Twenty
  
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