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• Teachers Union Drops Lawsuit Against The State

  03-11-2017 23:54
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Connecticut’s largest teachers union and four municipalities are dropping their lawsuit against the state, now that a budget is in place.
  The Connecticut Education Association, the city of Torrington and towns of Brooklyn, Stratford and Plainfield, had sought an injunction last month to stop Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy from using his limited executive spending authority to cut $557 million from the majority of Connecticut school districts.
  CEA President Sheila C
  
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• Fierce Fashion Trends: What’s Hot In Women’s Lingerie & Sleepwear

  03-11-2017 23:45
  By Lori Melton
  You can count on Victoria’s Secret to keep you on the forefront of what’s soft, sexy, and currently trendy in lingerie and sleepwear. Some of the newest styles and hottest fashion trends will be seen on the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway. Here’s a look at some stunning new arrivals that serve up a perfect blend of sexy, beautiful style.
  VelvetVelvet is trending right now and Victoria’s Secret is serving up a luscious line of velvet lingeri
  
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• What To Expect From The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2017

  03-11-2017 23:40
  By Lori Melton
  It’s almost time for this year’s group of glamorous, glittering Angels to walk the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Find out what to expect from this year’s show including the location, which models are walking, who’s performing, what costumes will be featured and more in this comprehensive rundown of everything that’s happening at fashion’s most exciting entertainment extravaganza.
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• Lessons Learned from Gym Membership Miscommunication

  03-11-2017 23:18
  
  A woman from Meriden said Big Sky Fitness charged her for two personal training sessions six weeks after she put a freeze on that part of her account.
  
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• Cooler Weather Working into the State

  03-11-2017 22:39
  
  NBC Connecticut Meteorologists are tracking much cooler temperatures as we head into the weekend.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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• Clinic Warns About Some Ineffective Flu Vaccines

  03-11-2017 22:02
  
  A West Hartford clinic is warning dozens of patients about vaccines that may have reduced effectiveness.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• SportsLine’s Top Weekend Picks

  03-11-2017 21:36
  Charlotte Hornets @ San Antonio SpursFriday, November 3, 8:30 ET
  SAN ANTONIO -3
  The Spurs have lost four straight while the Hornets have won three in a row. But this is a matchup San Antonio has dominated, winning nine of the past 10. And I don’t see the Spurs losing to a Charlotte team missing its best player. Lay the small number.
  SportsLine Expert: Larry Hartstein (16-9-1 in last 26 NBA ATS picks)
  South Carolina Gamecocks @ Georgia BulldogsSaturday, November 4, 3:30 ET
  SOUTH CAROLINA +2
  
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• CBS Sports’ Dan Fouts On Week 9 Broncos-Eagles Matchup, More

  03-11-2017 21:03
  By Matt Citak
  This week’s matchup between the Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles features two teams trending in very different directions. The Eagles are currently the hottest team in the National Football League, winners of six straight games, and the owners of the league’s best record (7-1) and point differential (+76). Philadelphia’s second-year quarterback Carson Wentz has put himself in the MVP discussion halfway through the season. The 24-year-old QB has completed 61.
  
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• Documents Reveal More About Shooting of Wethersfield Teen

  03-11-2017 21:02
  
  A 16-year-old Wethersfield High School junior was shot and killed Thursday night and an 18-year-old graduate of the high school has been charged with murder.Photo Credit: Wethersfield Police
  
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• Jewish Group Wins Legal Fight To Build Synagogue

  03-11-2017 20:27
  LITCHFIELD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A Jewish group has won a 10-year legal fight against a historic district commission to build a synagogue in northwestern Connecticut.
  U.S. District Judge Janet Hall ruled Thursday in New Haven that Chabad Lubavitch of Litchfield County can convert a Victorian home near the Litchfield Green into a synagogue and community center.
  The Republican-American reported that Hall also ruled the group must eliminate a planned second-floor apartment for Rab
  
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• Route 10 in Cheshire Reopens After Crash That Sent 2 to Hospital

  03-11-2017 19:57
  
  Route 10 in Cheshire was closed for several hours after three tractor-trailers and one car collided where Route 10 meets East and West Johnson Avenue around 6 a.m. Friday. Two people were taken to the hospital...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Report: Wethersfield Teen Was Showing Off Gun, Smoking Pot Before Fatal Shooting

  03-11-2017 19:32
  (CBS Connecticut) — A young man from Wethersfield went before a judge in New Britain Superior Court this afternoon, on charges of murdering a 16-year-old boy.
  According to a Wethersfield Police report filed in court, Noah Hendron was showing friends his new gun on the back porch of a home on Alison Lane.
  Hendron was excited about the Smith and Wesson revolver, because it was his first handgun.
  He took the bullets out of the gun, to show his friends that they had hollow points. That feature
  
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• U.S. unemployment drops to lowest in 17 years

  03-11-2017 19:04
  HARTFORD — America’s job market got back on its feet in October. The U.S. economy rebounded from the hurricanes and added 261,000 jobs, the best performance of the Trump administration. Unemployment inched down to 4.1 percent, the lowest since December 2000. “This labor market is still really firing on all cylinders,” says Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West in San Francisco. Wages took a step back. They grew only 2.4 percent in October compared with a yea
  
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• Elderly Woman Hit by Car in Meriden Has Died

  03-11-2017 19:00
  (Meriden, CONN. / CBS Connecticut)– An 87-year-old woman has died of her injuries after being hit by an SUV in Meriden Thursday evening.
  Police say Maria Opalacz of Meriden was found lying near the Stop & Shop on Broad Street shortly before 7:30 pm. A Ford Edge driving northbound on Broad Street struck the woman. She suffered injuries to her legs, midsection and head.
  The driver of the Ford Edge, Charles Crook, remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators. Police co
  
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• What sets apart the ‘Biggest Losers’ who keep off the weight

  03-11-2017 18:38
  After competing in “The Biggest Loser,” many of the reality-show contestants have reluctantly regained the weight they sought to lose through extreme dieting and exercise. “The truth is, I kind of spiraled,” Ali Vincent, the first woman to win the competition, told Oprah last year. “I got home and I was like, ‘What do I do?’ “I’m supposed to be strong. I’m supposed to know how to do this.” But some contestants discovered
  
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• 87-Year-Old Woman Hit at Stop & Shop in Meriden Has Died

  03-11-2017 18:37
  
  An 87-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle at the entrance of a Stop & Shop in Meriden on Thursday night had died, according to police.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Melania Trump to be protected by special all-female Japanese squad

  03-11-2017 18:34
  The Japanese police department in Tokyo has put together an all-female squad of officers for specific assignment to first lady Melania Trump and other visiting female dignitaries, including presidential adviser Ivanka Trump, according to a report. The first lady arrives in Japan on Sunday for a two-day visit with President Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump landed in Tokyo on Thursday. The female police unit, dressed in smart black suits with white button-down shirts, practiced their moves in front
  
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• Keidel: Carson Wentz Is Carrying The Eagles

  03-11-2017 18:34
  By Jason Keidel
  If we’ve learned anything about the NFL, it’s that it’s silly to assume any team will beat another, despite the odds. Even when the Philadelphia Eagles (7-1) host the Denver Broncos (3-4) this Sunday.
  But it’s pretty safe to say the Eagles are pro football’s best club at halftime of the NFL season. And, if we had to crown a league MVP after eight games, Eagles QB Carson Wentz would get the most votes, or at least finish in a dead heat with Tom Brady.
  
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• CCSU Basketball Coach, Assistant Coach Under Investigation

  03-11-2017 18:34
  
  Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) said that the Blue Devils' mens basketball coach and one of the assistant coaches will not be at Thursday night's game because of an investigation conducted by...
  
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• Lego’s ‘Women of NASA’ sale lifts off, lands as best-selling toy

  03-11-2017 17:47
  Skyrocketing sales has landed Lego’s new “Women of NASA” play set as Amazon’s No. 1 best-selling toy in just 24 hours. Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, and astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, the four women who played vital roles in the US space program are now immortalized in a 231-piece Lego set, accompanied by three builds illustrating their areas of expertise. The set went on sale Wednesday morni
  
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• Student Threat to Ex-Boyfriend Prompted Enfield High Lockdown

  03-11-2017 17:43
  
  Enfield High School went into lockdown Friday morning after a 16-year-old girl who broke up with her boyfriend texted the boy and said she was going to kill him and another student was going to help, police...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Power Generation Rates To Increase

  03-11-2017 17:39
  NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – Connecticut utility regulators have approved increases to the electricity generation rates offered by Eversource and United Illuminating.
  Effective January 1, 2018, Eversource’s residential generation rate will change from 8.01 cents per kilowatt-hour to 9.08 cents. UI’s residential generation rate will change from 7.6 cents to 9.66 cents. The rates are based on auctions held earlier this year.
  About two-thirds of Connecticut homes receive
  
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• Eversource gets approval for rate increase

  03-11-2017 17:16
  BERLIN — Eversource has submitted its proposed winter electricity prices to the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PUTRA) Friday. Customers will see an increase on their electric bill beginning January 1st. PURA approved the new service charge of just under 10 centers per kilowatt an hour, which is up from just over 8 cents. Eversource says this is a direct pass through cost to customers for the price of power generation, and iwll not profit the company. Eversource Senior V
  
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• CCSU Coach Donyell Marshall Subject Of School Investigation

  03-11-2017 17:13
  NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Central Connecticut men’s basketball coach Donyell Marshall is the subject of a school investigation, but officials there will not say what is being investigated.
  Marshall and assistant coach Anthony Anderson were not allowed to coach in Thursday’s exhibition game against Nyack.
  The school says they were unavailable due to a “confidential personnel matter currently under investigation by the university.”
  The Hartford Cou
  
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• No Prison Time For Bowe Bergdahl

  03-11-2017 17:07
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) – A military judge has found that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time for endangering his comrades by walking off his Afghanistan post.
  The judge also gave Bergdahl a dishonorable discharge, reduced his rank to private and said he must forfeit pay equal to $1,000 per month for 10 months.
  The judge made no other comments.
  Bergdahl appeared tense, grimaced and clenched his jaw.
  His attorneys put their arms around him and one patted him on the back.
  Bergdahl pleade
  
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• Eversource and United Illuminating Rates Increasing in January

  03-11-2017 17:06
  
  Rates will be going up for Eversource and United Illuminating customers in Connecticut.The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority released information Friday on the new rates after Eversource and UI recently...Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• South Florida Heads To UConn After Season’s First Loss

  03-11-2017 17:04
  PAT EATON-ROBBAP Sports Writer
  STORRS, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) — A trip to Connecticut may be just what South Florida needs after a disappointing week that saw Bulls lose for the first time in more than a year and drop out of the Top 25.
  USF (7-1, 4-1 American) will face one of the nation’s worst defenses on Saturday. UConn (3-5, 2-3), which coming off a 52-12 rout at home to Missouri, has been giving up and average of more than 548 yards a game. That includes just under 378 y
  
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• Judge: No prison time for Bowe Bergdahl after abandoning Afghanistan post

  03-11-2017 16:43
  WASHINGTON DC — A judge ruled that Bowe Bergdahl should serve no prison time after he walked off his Afghanistan post, endangering his comrades. While avoiding jail time, Bergdahl will get a dishonorable discharge, lose rank, and forfeit pay. Bergdahl, of Hailey, Idaho, was held by the Taliban for nearly five years after he walked off his post in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009. Some members of Bergdahl’s platoon have criticized him, labeling Bergdahl a deserter. “I was pisse
  
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• People Care More About Dogs Than Other Humans, Study Finds

  03-11-2017 16:34
  CBS Local — A new study is making the claim that humans care more about “man’s best friend” than they do about their human friends. Researchers say that humans expressed more empathy towards dogs than other people when both were hurt or needed help.
  The study, published in the journal Society and Animals, examined the reactions of over 240 students when they were given fictitious news reports about injured dogs and people. The team from Northeastern University gave e
  
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• No Contest Plea In Assault, Abuse Case

  03-11-2017 16:27
  NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut woman charged with abusing a male victim for years, including inflicting injuries on his genitals, faces eight years in prison after pleading no contest to assault charges.
  The Norwich Bulletin reports that a New London Superior Court judge accepted the plea from Jillian Washburn on Thursday. She is scheduled to be sentenced onJan. 31 to 18 years in prison suspended after eight years.
  She had faced up to 30 years in prison if convicted at trial.
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• Fears squashed: Zucchini mistaken for WWII bomb in Germany

  03-11-2017 16:27
  BERLIN, Germany — A worried resident in Germany alerted police to what he thought was a World War II bomb in his garden. Officers rushed over — and found a particularly large zucchini. Police were summoned to the scene in Bretten, near the southwestern city of Karlsruhe, on Thursday morning by an 81-year-old man. They said in a statement Friday that officers determined “the object, which really did look very like a bomb” was actually a 40-centimeter (nearly 16-inch) zucch
  
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• Pope Francis asked to consider letting some married men act as priests

  03-11-2017 16:22
  VATICAN CITY — A high-ranking Vatican official has said he is pressing the Catholic Church to consider allowing married men to act as priests in a remote region of the Amazon. Bishop Erwin Krautler, Secretary for the Commission on the Pan-Amazon Region, wants the subject on the agenda at a meeting in the Vatican in 2019, he told the Austrian news agency KNA. The proposal centers around the question of allowing faithful Catholic married men to act as priests, including […]
  
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• How I’d Bet $100 On The Breeders’ Cup Classic

  03-11-2017 16:16
  By Kevin Martin
  This Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at the Del Mar Racetrack in California is being billed as a two-horse race between last year’s winner, Arrogate, and Gun Runner, who dominated the East Coast’s older-horse division in 2017.
  While all of the focus is on the two favorites, nine other runners are entered to run for the six-million-dollar purse. One of those nine, Collected, beat Arrogate the last time both horses ran in August. That race, the Pacific Clas
  
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• Boy caught on camera filling empty trick-or-treat bowl with his own candy

  03-11-2017 15:42
  CHULA VISTA, Calif. – A sweet act of kindness was caught on camera, and a California mother is hoping to find out who the boy is that left Halloween candy at her doorstep for others to take. Kim Manalo and her family left a bowl of candy out while she took her kids trick or treating on Halloween night,  KSWB reports.  After coming home to an empty candy bowl, Kim immediately thought the worst. “Once we got around the block the bowl […]
  
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• UHart Starting NAACP Chapter After Hate Crime Incident

  03-11-2017 15:36
  
  The University of Hartford is starting a student NAACP chapter in the wake of a disturbing hate crime incident between two students.Photo Credit: West Hartford Police
  
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• Florida woman charged with DUI on a horse

  03-11-2017 15:26
  LAKELAND, Fla.  — A 53-year-old woman riding a horse down a busy Florida highway has been arrested and charged with driving drunk. Polk County Sheriff’s officials said in a news release that someone called 911 about a woman, who appeared confused and possibly in danger. When deputies arrived they found Donna Byrne riding her horse in the road. Officers did a sobriety test and said she gave breath samples that registered blood alcohol level of .161 — much higher than [&hell
  
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• UHart President Calls Hate Crime Incident a 'Wake Up Call'

  03-11-2017 15:23
  
  The University of Hartford is taking swift action in the wake of a disturbing incident between two students.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Teacher arrested after biting 2-year-old student on the face

  03-11-2017 15:16
  COVINGTON, La. (WGNO) — A former Covington-area teacher is in jail after admitting she bit one of her students, according to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office. Heather Marcotte, 28, of Covington, was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 1, for felony cruelty to a juvenile. Shortly after 4:15 p.m. on Oct. 25, the parent of a 2-year-old student at Northlake Christian School called the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office to report an incident. The mother told deputies when she went to p
  
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• Road Closed Until Tonight After Water Main Break in Bozrah

  03-11-2017 15:12
  
  Fitchville Road in Bozrah will be closed for much of the day after a water main break Friday morning.Photo Credit: Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communications @QVEC911
  
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• 16-year-old shot and killed in Wethersfield, 18-year-old arrested

  03-11-2017 13:49
  WETHERSFIELD — Police arrested 18-year-old Noah Hendron of Wethersfield after they say he’s a suspect in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Police were called to a home on Alison Lane around 8:17 p.m. on a report someone had been shot. The caller reported that his friend, a 16-year-old male, was shot and the suspect left the home in a car. Officers arrived at the scene and found the victim was dead. A description of Hendron and his car was […]
  
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• Wethersfield Teen Charged With Murder

  03-11-2017 13:46
  WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) – A Wethersfield teenager is under arrest, accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy at a home on Alison Lane Thursday night.
  Officers responded to the address around 8:15 p.m.m to find the the victim dead of a gunshot wound, said police. A friend of the victim told police that the suspect fled in a vehicle.
  Police later arrested Noah Hendron, 18, of Wethersfield. He is charged with murder and criminal use of a firearm. He was held on $1,000,000 bo
  
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• Malloy Offers Money To Keep Public Affairs Network

  03-11-2017 13:23
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – With word that Connecticut’s cable TV and online public affairs network plans to end its coverage of state government after severe budget cuts, Governor Dannel Malloy is offering executive branch dollars to help keep the Connecticut Network on the air.
  Malloy wrote legislative leaders Friday, offering $400,000 to help fund CT-N, and suggested that the legislative and judicial branches should be able to find matching dollars within their exis
  
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• Man Convicted Of Manslaughter For Fatal Stabbing

  03-11-2017 13:21
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A Connecticut man faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty of fatally stabbing another man during a street fight in 2012.
  The Connecticut Post reports that 56-year-old Mario Chavez was convicted Thursday of first-degree manslaughter in the May 2012 death of 23-year-old Francisco Barbosa in Bridgeport.
  Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 12.
  Prosecutors say Chavez had stopped his car at a city intersection at about 2 a.m. and let two
  
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• Asked if DNC system was rigged in Clinton’s favor, Warren says ‘yes’

  03-11-2017 13:19
  WASHINGTON DC — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she believes that the Democratic National Committee was “rigged” in favor of former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 primary. Asked Thursday by CNN’s Jake Tapper whether she believes that the Democratic campaign organization was tipped in favor of Clinton over her primary opponent, independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Warren responded without hesitation: “Yes.” “We learned toda
  
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• Law Firm Officer Manager Charged With Embezzlement

  03-11-2017 13:18
  WATERBURY, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – The former office manager for a Connecticut law firm has been charged with embezzling more than $125,000 from the business.
  Police say 49-year-old Kathleen Botsacos, of Southington, was charged this week after they completed an investigation into the alleged theft that began about five years ago at the Waterbury office of attorney Leonard Crone.
  She faces 11 counts of forgery and first-degree larceny for allegedly forging Crone’s signature
  
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• Enfield High School on Lockdown

  03-11-2017 13:09
  
  Enfield High School is on lockdown, according to police.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Enfield High School lockdown lifted

  03-11-2017 12:54
  ENFIELD — Enfield High School was placed in a precautionary lockdown Friday morning after a student allegedly made a threat against another. Enfield High School said on their Facebook page that all safety protocols were initiated and followed. All students and staff were safe, and were not in danger. Police say that a suicidal girl threatened an ex-boyfriend, alleging she would kill herself but before she did would kill him with the help of another boy. The boy took the […]
  
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• How did this happen? 3 questions for Twitter after it deleted Trump’s account

  03-11-2017 12:42
  We know this much: A Twitter employee used their final day at the company to delete President Trump’s account. The account, which has more than 41 million followers, was restored after just 11 minutes, and Twitter says it’s conducting an internal review. But the company’s statements have raised more questions than they’ve answered: How did this happen? And could it again? Here are three key questions Twitter has yet to answer: How could this happen? The fact that one
  
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• Crash Closes Route 10 in Cheshire, 2 Hospitalized

  03-11-2017 12:33
  
  Route 10 in Cheshire is closed after a crash involving three tractor-trailers and one car. Police said there are injuries and the road will likely be closed through morning rush hour.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• 87-Year-Old Woman Hit by Vehicle at Stop & Shop in Meriden

  03-11-2017 12:18
  
  An 87-year-old woman is in critical condition after she was struck at the entrance of a Stop & Shop in Meriden on Thursday night.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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