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• Accused Triple Murderer Rejects Plea Deal

  23-08-2017 23:54
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A Connecticut man charged with killing three people in 2008 has turned down a plea deal that called for a 70-year prison sentence.
  The Hartford Courant reports 35-year-old Harold Patterson opted to instead face a jury. He faces up to 180 years behind bars if convicted. A trial date has not been scheduled.
  Prosecutors allege he fatally shot 34-year-old Raymond “Flip” Hite in June 2008, and used the same gun to kill 21-year-old Lamar Gresham and 23-year-old Carl
  
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• Have you seen them? Naugatuck police needs your help

  23-08-2017 23:49
  NAUGATUCK —  Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two people wanted for allegedly using a tool to open coin machines from a laundromat. Naugatuck police said the incident took place on New Haven Road where the wanted suspects stole approximately $600 in coins from the business. Police ask if anyone has information on the theft or the identity of the wanted suspects, to contact Naugatuck Police Department at 203-729-5221 or their confidential tip line at 20
  
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• State department expands travel warnings for Mexico

  23-08-2017 23:13
  WASHINGTON DC — Citing the rise in criminal activity for certain parts of Mexico, the U.S. State Department has raised warnings to travelers. In a warning on their website, the State Department said, “U.S. citizens have been the victims of violent crimes, including homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery in various Mexican states. U.S. government personnel and their families are prohibited from personal travel to all areas to which the Department recommends ‘defer non-ess
  
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• Thursday: Mostly sunny, cooler, low humidity

  23-08-2017 23:10
  For tonight we’ll have low temperatures in the 50s with mainly clear skies. We’re looking dry for a while. The next week or so will feature sunshine with temperatures a bit on the cooler side for late August. Highs will be in the 70s to near 80 for Thursday through next Tuesday, and it all comes along with low humidity. Comfortable afternoons and cool nights will be the theme as we wrap up the week and head into the weekend. […]
  
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• Millennials Are Happier At Work Than Others, Study Says

  23-08-2017 23:05
  CBS Local — Many millennials have the reputation of being social media-obsessed, trend-following, job-hoppers. A new study has added one more label to the much-maligned generation: very happy workers.
  According to a survey by talent recruitment firm Robert Half, millennials are the happiest of any generation when it comes to their jobs. Robert Half asked over 24,000 people in eight countries about their overall level of happiness at work. A mere eight percent of the 18 to 34-year-olds surv
  
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• Players hold breath as $700M Powerball jackpot drawing nears 

  23-08-2017 22:24
  DES MOINES, Iowa  — Lottery players will have a shot at a $700 million Powerball jackpot that ranks as the second largest in U.S. history. Despite incredibly long odds, people throughout the country will hold their breath Wednesday night as five white balls and one red ball are drawn from drums. The drawing will be seen around 10:57 p.m. Wednesday on WCCT Channel 20. Data researchers found  the most winning numbers — in order are  32-41-16-40-49. The jackpot
  
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• Naugatuck Quadruplets Begin College Together at Quinnipiac

  23-08-2017 22:04
  
  Quadruplets from Naugatuck arrived at Quinnipiac University in Hamden with a full U-Haul and bright hopes for the next four years, which they will spend together on the Hamden campus.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Legislators looking at sales tax hike

  23-08-2017 21:59
  HARTFORD — Connecticut Democratic lawmakers have proposed increasing the state sales tax to raise more than $660 million over two years to help curb potential cuts to education aid to cities and towns. Democratic House members released a two year, nearly $39.9 billion budget plan Wednesday that calls for raising the sales tax to 6.85 percent from 6.35 percent. A House vote on the budget is expected the week of Sept. 11. The state faces a two-year, $3.5 billion budget […]
  
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• Connecticut Democrats Propose Sales Tax Increase

  23-08-2017 21:59
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Democratic lawmakers have proposed increasing the state sales tax to raise more than $660 million over two years to help curb potential cuts to education aid to cities and towns.
  Democratic House members released a two year, nearly $39.9 billion budget plan Wednesday that calls for raising the sales tax to 6.85 percent from 6.35 percent. A House vote on the budget is expected the week of Sept. 11.
  The state faces a two-year, $3.5 billion budget deficit.
  
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• 9 Northeast States Agree To Further Power Plant Carbon Cuts

  23-08-2017 21:49
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed to update their regional environmental pact to further reduce power plant carbon emissions to fight global climate change.
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have agreed to reduce the cap on emissions an additional 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. The Democrat says the new cap will be 65 percent below the 2009 starting level.
  The initiative caps c
  
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• Report: Nearly Half of State’s Labor Force Holds Bachelor’s Degrees

  23-08-2017 21:46
  BOSTON (AP) — Half of all workers in Massachusetts held a bachelor’s degree or higher in 2016, marking the first time any U.S. state has reached that educational threshold, according to a report released Wednesday by the independent Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.
  The same analysis points to a growing wage chasm in the state, with the college-educated earning on average 99 percent — or nearly double — the wages of those in the labor force with only a hi
  
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• Rentschler Field to Host MLS Game

  23-08-2017 21:21
  
  Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field will host its first-ever MLS game next month.Photo Credit: United Technologies
  
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• Charlottesville covers Confederate monuments with large black fabric

  23-08-2017 21:18
  CHARLOTTESVILLE — Workers in Charlottesville, Virginia, placed large black tarps Wednesday over two monuments to Confederate military generals, according to video from CNN affiliate WVIR. The statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park and the statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson in Justice Park were each covered with tarp on Wednesday. The two monuments were the focus of violent protests earlier this month. Hunting down fabric swaths large enough to drape over the monuments of Robert E.
  
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• Poodle gets tumor that’s a third of its body weight removed

  23-08-2017 20:53
  NAUGATUCK — A poodle named Oreo is on the mend after having a 6.4-pound tumor removed — nearly a third of its body weight. Daryl Masone says her group, Poodle Rescue Connecticut, got custody of the 6-year-old, 26-pound  poodle mix earlier this month after a neighbor noticed it was struggling with the large tumor. She says it was hard for the dog to walk or do anything else, and it was also struggling with fleas and Lyme disease. The Watertown […]
  
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• Player Style Files: Floyd Mayweather

  23-08-2017 20:51
  By Matt Citak
  The time has finally come. This Saturday night, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, one of the most anticipated boxing matches in recent memory will take place. Floyd Mayweather and his perfect 49-0 record will come out of retirement to take on UFC star Conor McGregor, who will be making his professional boxing debut.
  While rumors of this battle began swirling over a year ago, it was not made official until the two fighters announced the epic showdown via Twitter on June 14, ju
  
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• Mayweather on Saturday’s Showdown: ‘This Fight Is Colossal’

  23-08-2017 20:51
  By Matt Citak
  The time has finally come. This Saturday night, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, one of the most anticipated boxing matches in recent memory will take place. Floyd Mayweather and his perfect 49-0 record will come out of retirement to take on UFC star Conor McGregor, who will be making his professional boxing debut.
  While rumors of this battle began swirling over a year ago, it was not made official until the two fighters announced the epic showdown via Twitter on June 14, ju
  
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• 13-year-old driver caught with 25 pounds of meth during traffic stop

  23-08-2017 20:42
  DENVER — A 13-year-old in Colorado faces multiple drug charges after investigators found over 25 pounds of meth during a traffic stop on Tuesday, according to KDVR. Investigators stopped the Dodge Avenger on Interstate 70 in Mesa County on Tuesday. Officials said they found a 13-year-old behind the wheel and 23 packages containing a crystalline substance inside the vehicle. According to investigators, 22-year-old German Michel-Arreola and 19-year-old Irene Michel-Arreola were als
  
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• Chat with the Chief: Back to School

  23-08-2017 20:36
  In our monthly Chat with the Chief segment, Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara discussed school safety. MacNamara said we can’t think of the seasons as summer, fall, winter and spring.  Instead, we should think of it as back-to-school season.  People out on the roads should be prepared for the buses to get rolling again. That means drivers need to pay attention to school children waiting at bus stops and getting off and on the school buses.  Parents should prepare their [
  
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• ICE Arrests Mom Accused of Leaving Baby Alone in Van

  23-08-2017 20:22
  
  Immigration officials have taken into custody a mother who is accused of leaving her 16-month-old baby girl alone in a van with the windows up in East Windsor Monday.Photo Credit: East Windsor Police
  
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• Second Furlough Day Draws Second Rally

  23-08-2017 20:05
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – The executive order keeping Connecticut state government running includes six furlough days for state-funded private non-profit groups that provide day programs to the developmentally disabled.
  As the second furlough day occurred on Wednesday, advocates rallied outside the State Capitol, decrying the cuts.
  “How are we, as special-needs parents supposed to work, if there are no day programs?,” said Penney Parks of Fairfield who has a son in a
  
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• Missing Elderly Mass. Man May be in Connecticut: Police

  23-08-2017 20:01
  
  Massachusetts police are trying to locate a missing elderly man who may be in the Windsor area.Photo Credit: Maynard Police Department
  
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• Counselors at School After Death of 11-Year Boy

  23-08-2017 19:53
  
  An 11-year-old boy has died from a medical issue and grief counselors will be available at Har-Bur Middle School in Burlington Thursday, according to police.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Shark Chomps on Paddleboard, Closing Cape Cod Beach

  23-08-2017 19:51
  
  A beach on the Cape Cod National Seashore was closed Wednesday after a shark bit a paddleboard, authorities confirm.Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, was closed to swimmers after an incident...Photo Credit: Cape Cod National Park Service
  
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• Counselors at School After Death of 11-Year Torrington Boy

  23-08-2017 19:50
  
  An 11-year-old Torrington boy has died from a medical issue and grief counselors will be available at Har-Bur Middle School in Burlington Thursday, according to police.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Racial Slur, Swastika Painted on New Milford Restaurant

  23-08-2017 19:49
  
  The New Milford community rallied together in a show of support Wednesday to help local restaurant owners after someone painted a racial slur and a swastika on their building.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• UConn Opens Downtown Satellite Campus In Hartford

  23-08-2017 19:38
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst have cut the ribbon on the school’s new satellite campus in downtown Hartford.
  A ceremony at the campus took place Wednesday.
  About 2,300 UConn students and 300 full-time faculty are scheduled to begin classes Monday in the capital city.
  The school spent $140 million to move the satellite campus from West Hartford, much of it on a major renovation and five-story addition to the historic
  
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• WATCH LIVE: Trump talks healing and unity at American Legion convention, signs bill to help veterans

  23-08-2017 19:36
  RENO, Nevada — Hours after his  campaign rally in Phoenix, President Donald Trump will call Wednesday for national healing. “It is time to heal the wounds that have divided us, and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us,” Trump will say in a speech to the National Convention of the American Legion in Reno, Nevada, according to advance excerpts of the speech provided by the White House. “We are one people, with one home, […]
  
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• Trump talks healing and unity at American Legion convention, signs bill to help veterans

  23-08-2017 19:36
  RENO, Nevada — Hours after his  campaign rally in Phoenix, President Donald Trump calls for national healing. “It is time to heal the wounds that have divided us, and to seek a new unity based on the common values that unite us,” Trump will say in a speech to the National Convention of the American Legion in Reno, Nevada, according to advance excerpts of the speech provided by the White House. “We are one people, with one home, and one […]
  
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• Mom, Children Safe After Getting Lost in Woods Overnight

  23-08-2017 19:30
  
  An Oxford mother, her two young children and their dog, who were missing after going for a walk in the Naugatuck State Forest, are safe at home after finding their way out of the forest.Photo Credit: NBCConnectcut.com
  
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• Dad Creates App Making Parents’ Texts Impossible For Kids To Ignore

  23-08-2017 19:22
  CBS Local — Parents have a new tool to help them get through to their phone-addicted kids. A father in Britain has created an app that will send texts their children are not able to ignore until they read the message.
  Nick Herbert was reportedly tired of his son, Ben, ignoring messages from home and wrote developed the app called ReplyASAP. ReplyASAP allows users to send a text message that triggers an alarm on the recipient’s phone even if their cell is on silent.
  The message w
  
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• Ledyard Police, State Police investigate car shooting

  23-08-2017 19:19
  LEDYARD — Ledyard Police say they are investigating after a man was shot Tuesday night. Around 10 p.m., police say a woman who was a passenger in a car called and said the 29-year-old driver was shot. The car was travelling on Route 2 in Preston, and stopped in the area of Preston Citgo. When police arrived, they found the victim suffering from a single gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was conscious and alert and taken to Backus Hospital […]
  
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• New Milford man dies from tick-borne illness

  23-08-2017 19:04
  NEW MILFORD— Officials say a 55-year-old Connecticut man died after contracting a tick-borne illness. The state medical examiner’s office says Michael Yoder, of New Milford, died Aug. 8 of liver and kidney failure after contracting babesiosis from a tick bite. Yoder’s wife, Wendy, tells The News-Times her husband had a stomach bug for weeks, but by the time he was diagnosed it was too late. Babesiosis is a disease caused by a parasite that gives people flu-like symptoms. In sev
  
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• Track Trash Causes Epic Subway Chaos, MTA Vows Discipline

  23-08-2017 18:53
  
  The MTA has promised appropriate discipline after poorly secured trash on a southbound refuse train at 14th Street fell on the tracks, causing a single train to get stuck twice -- once in Manhattan and once...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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• Cape Cod beach closed after shark bites paddleboard

  23-08-2017 18:41
  WELLFLEET, Mass.  — A beach on Cape Cod has been closed after a shark bit a paddleboard as a man was standing on it. Kathy Tevyaw, acting superintendent at the Cape Cod National Seashore, tells the Cape Cod Times that the 69-year-old man was not bitten in Wednesday morning’s incident at Marconi Beach. She says he was in about 3 feet (0.9 meters) of water when it happened. She says the beach was immediately closed after the call came in […]
  
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• Video: Man jumps in back of a tow truck, bashing the windows after his car is repossessed

  23-08-2017 18:28
  COMPTON, Calif. — A man may be facing charges after he jumped into the back of a tow truck after it repossessed his car according to KTLA. The incident happened in the 17600 block of South Santa Fe Avenue in Compton  around 10 a.m.. The man riding and hitting the tow truck and the truck’s driver were both detained, questioned and later released, authorities said. However, there’s a possibility the man who jumped onto the truck could face vandalism charges, officials [
  
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• Democrats Want to Restore Almost All School Funds Gov. Cut

  23-08-2017 18:21
  
  Democrats in the Connecticut House of Representatives want to restore almost all of the funds to school systems that Gov. Dannel Malloy announced last week would be cut in the absence of a state budget.
  
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• Nick Faldo On The Northern Trust: ‘Always Fun To See Who Might Step Up’

  23-08-2017 18:16
  By Dave Shedloski
  The final event of the CBS golf season is the first of the FedExCup Playoffs, which has a new sponsor and all-new venue. The Northern Trust begins Thursday at Glen Oaks Club in Old Westbury, N.Y., on Long Island, with 120 players entered among the top 125 in the season-long FedExCup points race who qualified.
  Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is the pacesetter, but the four-tournament playoff stretch contested over the next five weeks is sure to see movement aplenty in the race for the
  
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• Brandeis University closed and evacuated over email threats

  23-08-2017 18:02
  WALTHAM, Mass. — Officials are saying that Brandeis University in Waltham Massachusetts is closed and evacuated after emailed threats Wednesday morning. The University said that they had received emailed threats Wednesday morning and out of an abundance of caution, closed and evacuated the campus of all faculty and non-essential personal. Students who were already on campus were relocated to the playing fields. Around 11 a.m., the University said that they are still clearing the buildings
  
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• Bruno Mars meets source of nickname: Bruno Sammartino

  23-08-2017 17:56
  PITTSBURGH — Bruno Mars has met the man he’s nicknamed after: former pro wrestling champion Bruno Sammartino. The two met Tuesday night when the pop singing sensation’s 24K Magic World Tour stopped in Pittsburgh. Sammartino heard through friends that Mars, born Peter Gene Hernandez, was nicknamed “Bruno” by his father because he was a “chunky” baby. The wrestling legend — now 81 — was about 275 pounds in his prime and the favorite wrestler of
  
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• New Milford police investigating hate crime at local restaurant

  23-08-2017 17:43
  NEW MILFORD — New Milford’s Mayor says that the town is investigating after hateful graffiti was sprayed across a local restaurant. The owners of Thompson’s Restaurant issued a statement on facebook: Mayor Gronbach said on Facebook Wednesday morning: As Mayor, I can assure the Thompsons that the full weight of our police resources will be used to find and punish any person associated with this hate crime. To our Community at large, but especially to our Community of African-Ame
  
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• UConn Holds Grand Opening at Downtown Hartford Campus

  23-08-2017 17:30
  
  UConn has returned to Hartford and a grand opening ceremony is underway at the downtown campus, which will soon educate about 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students and provide work for almost 300 full-...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• ME: Connecticut Man Died From Tick-Borne Illness

  23-08-2017 16:51
  NEW MILFORD, Conn. (AP) – Officials say a 55-year-old Connecticut man died after contracting a tick-borne illness.
  The state medical examiner’s office says Michael Yoder, of New Milford, died Aug. 8 of liver and kidney failure after contracting babesiosis from a tickbite.
  Yoder’s wife, Wendy, tells The News-Times (http://bit.ly/2veZpyL ) her husband had a stomach bug for weeks, but by the time he was diagnosed it was too late.
  Babesiosis is a disease caused by a parasite that
  
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• Mosquitoes in More Towns Test Positive for West Nile Virus

  23-08-2017 16:50
  
  Mosquitoes trapped in Greenwich, South Windsor, Stratford, and Westport have tested positive for West Nile Virus, according to state officials.
  
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• Healthy Rounds: Heat Illness In High School Athletes

  23-08-2017 16:46
  Dr. Alessi discusses heat illness in high school athletes with Samm Scarneo, Director of Sport Safety at the UConn Korey Stringer Institute.
   
  
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• ESPN under fire for taking announcer off University of Virginia football game

  23-08-2017 16:38
  By trying to avoid an embarrassing ordeal, ESPN has embarrassed itself. On Tuesday night, the network confirmed that its management moved an Asian-American announcer, Robert Lee, off the University of Virginia‘s home opener football game “simply because of the coincidence of his name.” Earlier Tuesday, a source had told CNN that Lee was abruptly switched to the Youngstown versus Pitt game. He had recently been promoted by ESPN, so the switch was a sensitive matter. News of the
  
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• Man Charged in North Haven Dunkin' Donuts Robbery, Assault

  23-08-2017 16:18
  
  A New Haven man is accused of robbing the Alltown Plaza at the North Haven rest stop on Route 15 and assaulting one of the employees.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• Priest takes leave of absence after revealing he was in the KKK

  23-08-2017 16:17
  ARLINGTON, Va. – After the events in Charlottesville, a Virginia priest wrote an editorial Monday on how he turned to a life of faith after leaving the Ku Klux Klan. Then he decided to step down from his position in the church. “The images from Charlottesville brought back memories of a bleak period in my life that I would have preferred to forget,” wrote Father William Aitcheson, 62, of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington in a post for The Arlington Catholic Herald [&h
  
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• Alleged Highway Rest Stop Robber Charged

  23-08-2017 16:05
  (North Haven, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – State Police are charging a New Haven man in connection with the robbery this month at a highway rest stop eatery.
  It was back on August 15 that a suspect later identified as 22-year-old Trayvon Foster entered the Dunkin Donuts on the Wilbur Cross Parkway northbound in North Haven just before 5:00 a.m. and demanded money from employees, one of whom police say was assaulted, causing injuries.
  Troopers say Foster was taken into custody Tuesday and booke
  
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• House Democrats Still Looking to Raise Sales Tax to Solve Budget Crisis

  23-08-2017 16:02
  
  Following the most recent meeting of top legislative leaders, House Democrats revealed that they still intend to raise the state sales tax from 6.35 percent to 6.85 percent.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Danbury nanny sentenced to 15 years in prison for child abuse

  23-08-2017 15:53
  DANBURY –  A Connecticut nanny accused of burning a 3-year-old’s hand and leg on a hot stove, lifting her up by her hair and trapping her inside a toy chest has accepted been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The News-Times reports a defense attorney caled Lidia Quilligana’s actions “unfathomable” at Tuesday’s sentencing, but said she was “a sad person who lost control.” The attorney said Quilligana was abused as a child and was using the only
  
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