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• Snow Falling During Evening Commute

  15-12-2017 23:42
  
  Drivers should expect a messy commute leaving work today, with snow beginning around 3 p.m. and going until around 10 p.m., and some schools will be dismissing early or canceling evening activities.Photo Credit: NBC ConnecticutThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• CREC teacher accused of inappropriate relationship with student

  15-12-2017 23:15
  HARTFORD — A Capitol Region Education Council teacher was placed on leave after allegations surfaced that she had an inappropriate relationship with a student.
  CREC administrators were notified on Wednesday, December 13, that a Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts instructor was acting improperly with an underage student at one of the Colt Gateway campus schools.
  Council officials immediately contacted both police and the Department of Children and Families, before placing the teacher on a
  
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• Americans are less religious, largely unconcerned about alleged ‘War on Christmas’ poll finds

  15-12-2017 22:36
  Americans are getting a little less religious in their Christmas observance, though the vast majority still celebrate the holiday that marks the birth of Jesus Christ, according to the Pew Center on Religion and Public Life.
  Pew regularly polls Americans on religious belief and observance, asking the same questions over time in order to follow trends in American religion.
  Here are some of the results of their poll of 1,503 Americans:
  In the 2017 poll, 66 percent believe Jesus was born to a virg
  
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• Grandmother and granddaughter graduate from college together – with honors

  15-12-2017 22:25
  CHICAGO – Most grandparents hope to live long enough to see their grandchildren graduate college, but one got the unique chance to follow her granddaughter across the stage and pick up a diploma of her own.
  "When we started together we never intended on being finished at the exact same moment so this was actually a coincidence, but we are proud and excited to be doing it together," said granddaughter Karea Berry. The two graduated from Chicago State University Thursday.
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• Trump judicial nominee struggles to answer basic legal questions at hearing

  15-12-2017 22:24
  WASHINGTON  – A Trump judicial nominee struggled to answer basic legal questions posed to him by a Republican senator on Wednesday, including his lack of experience on trial work, the amount of depositions he’d worked on and more.
  During his testimony, Matthew Spencer Petersen, who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, was asked a string of questions by GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana about his experience on trials, including how many depositi
  
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• Nurse Charged With Abusing Patients Files For State Pension

  15-12-2017 22:18
  HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A nurse accused of abusing a patient at the Whiting psychiatric hospital has filed for retirement benefits.
  The Hartford Courant reports that a lawyer for 49-year-old Mark Cusson says his client is allowed to receive a state pension, even if he is eventually convicted of the eight criminal counts.
  Cusson, who was the hospital’s head nurse, qualifies for retirement because of his 21 years of service. He was paid a salary of $173,000 last year
  
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• Mother found guilty of murder after 16-year-old daughter starves to death

  15-12-2017 22:10
  DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa mother was convicted of murder Thursday in the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter, who weighed only 85 pounds when she died, according to WHO.
  Nicole Finn was also found guilty of three counts of first-degree kidnapping, related to her other children.
  Natalie Finn died in October of 2016 after being found unresponsive and not breathing on the bare floor of a bedroom at the family’s West Des Moines home. Investigators say she was wearing an adult
  
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• Business Leaders Working to Better State's Economic Growth

  15-12-2017 21:56
  
  The state’s top business leaders are working to put Connecticut on a path to better economic growth.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Woodbridge School Warns Students of Mumps Exposure

  15-12-2017 21:32
  
  A school in Woodbridge is warning staff and students about the potential for mumps exposure.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Grants To Fund Review Of Untested Sexual Assault Kits

  15-12-2017 21:25
  (CBS Connecticut) — State officials today announced that they have received a pair of grants will allow the DNA testing of about 2,000 sexual assault evidence kits.
  Some kits had only been partially tested previously. Other kits had waited in police departments for years, because victims did not want to press charges, or because police departments thought the kits should only be sent to the lab when an arrest was near.
  Chief States Attorney Kevin Kane says results can be fed into a nationa
  
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• Woman Seriously Injured in Waterbury Hit-and-Run Has Died: Family

  15-12-2017 21:16
  
  A 75-year-old woman who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run in Waterbury on Tuesday morning has died, according to family members.
  
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• Couple adopts seven brothers and sisters who were split up in three separate foster homes

  15-12-2017 21:16
  MARIANNA, Fla. -- A Florida couple just became a family of nine after adopting seven children - all brothers and sisters and all at once!
  Sofia and Dashoan Olds said they always knew they might adopt some day, according to Today.
  The Olds said once they saw a news story about the siblings, it just felt right to adopt.
  "I like to say I felt like it was a calling. Honestly, when I saw that picture, it was automatic.""There was no question, if they allow us to adopt these children, we will do
  
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• New Store Coming to Main Street in Manchester

  15-12-2017 20:55
  
  After about 10 years of being vacant, a new business is taking over 12,000 square feet along Main Street in Manchester.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Former ‘Today’ staffer reveals alleged affair with Matt Lauer

  15-12-2017 20:54
  A former “Today” show staffer has revealed an affair she claims to have had with former host Matt Lauer.
  Addie Collins Zinone gave a first-person account of the alleged affair to Variety.
  Zinone, who is now married, said she was 24-years-old when she started working for NBC’s “Today” show following a summer internship.
  She said Lauer, who was fired last month amid sexual misconduct allegations, began messaging her just a few weeks before she was leaving NBC for a r
  
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• ‘To the woman in the Target parking lot’ – Daughter of slain Sandy Hook principal shares emotional story

  15-12-2017 20:53
  Five years later, even those who have never set foot near Newtown can conjure the scene painted by police of a first-grade classroom transformed into a killing field.
  Dawn Hochsprung, the slain Sandy Hook principal, ran toward danger in her attempt to save students.
  Hochsprung’s daughter, Tina Hassinger, shared a story on Thursday about an unknown hero from that day: the “woman in the Target parking lot:”
  “To the woman in the Target parking lot, five years later:
  It was m
  
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• Snow Could Make for Messy Evening

  15-12-2017 20:25
  
  Drivers should expect a messy commute leaving work today, with snow beginning around 3 p.m. and going until around 10 p.m., and some schools will be dismissing early or canceling evening activities.Photo Credit: NBC ConnecticutThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Two teens arrested in police-involved shooting of carjacking suspects

  15-12-2017 20:21
  NEW BRITAIN – Police have arrested two teenagers wounded by police gunfire during a carjacking arrest last night.
  Connecticut State Police say 18-year old Noah Young of Bloomfield has been charged with Illegal Possession of Narcotics, Possession with Intent to Sell, and Risk of Injury to a child.
  They also say a 15 year old juvenile male was issued a Juvenile Summons for Carrying Weapons in a Motor Vehicle, Possession of a Pistol without a Permit, and Possession of Narcotics.
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• 2 teen carjacking suspects arrested in police-involved shooting in New Britain

  15-12-2017 20:21
  NEW BRITAIN — Police have arrested two teenagers wounded by police gunfire during a carjacking arrest last night.
  Connecticut State Police said 18-year old Noah Young of Bloomfield has been charged with illegal possession of narcotics, possession with intent to sell, and risk of injury to a child.
  They also said a 15-year-old juvenile male was issued a juvenile summons for carrying weapons in a motor vehicle, possession of a pistol without a permit, and possession of narcotics.
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• North Carolina Man Accused In Death Of His 9-Month-Old Child

  15-12-2017 20:05
  WATERBURY, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Authorities have accused a North Carolina man in the death of his 9-month-old child.
  The Jacksonville Police Department said in a news release sent to local media outlets that its investigators began looking into the child’s death in September. At the end of the investigation, the sheriff’s office charged 21-year-old TraQuan Curtis with an open count of murder.
  On Thursday, Jacksonville police asked for help from U.S. Marshals Fugitiv
  
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• 2 Teens Charged After Police-Involved Shooting in New Britain

  15-12-2017 20:05
  
  State police have arrested an 18-year-old Bloomfield man and charged a 15-year-old boy in connection with an altercation that ended in a fatal officer-involved shooting on Chapman Street in New Britain Thursday...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com and Connecticut State Police
  
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• Former On-Air Personality Says ESPN Was Hostile Workplace

  15-12-2017 19:58
  BRISTOL, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A former ESPN personality is accusing the network of trying to silence her and other women who assert they were subjected to a sexually hostile work environment.
  Adrienne Lawrence made the accusation in a tweet Friday after ESPN published a friendly text message exchange between her and an anchor she had accused of misconduct.
  Lawrence, who served a fellowship at ESPN, filed a complaint this summer with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights an
  
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• CREC Teacher Accused of Inappropriate Relationship

  15-12-2017 19:48
  
  A teacher at a CREC school has been placed on leave after allegations of an inappropriate relationship between a student and a teacher. Officials from CREC said the school is the Greater Hartford Academy of the...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Firefighters Help Save Christmas After Family Loses Presents in Fire

  15-12-2017 19:19
  
  Firefighters stepped up to help a family who lost all their Christmas presents after a fire ripped through their New London condo on Thursday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Judge Puts Off Request To Dismiss Lawsuit In Mystery Deaths

  15-12-2017 18:59
  CONCORD, N.H. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A New Hampshire judge has put off a decision on whether to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a Vermont man of killing his millionaire grandfather and possibly his mother to collect an inheritance.
  Nathan Carman has been called a suspect in the 2013 shooting death of 87-year-old real estate developer John Chakalos in Connecticut. No one has been arrested. He also has been questioned about the day his boat sank last year near Rhode Island with his mother onb
  
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• Yacht Club Settles Alleged Bias Lawsuit By Muslim Couple

  15-12-2017 18:57
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – A Connecticut yacht club has settled a lawsuit by a Muslim businessman and his wife who said club board members rejected their membership application because of their religion and falsely claimed they supported terrorism.
  A document filed Friday in New Haven Superior Court says Pine Orchard Yacht & Country Club, in Branford, settled with Kamran and Kara Farid. Terms were not disclosed.
  Kamran Farid and a lawyer for the yacht club declined to
  
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• Crews Work to Repair Heat at Middle School in Waterbury

  15-12-2017 18:55
  
  Schools in Waterbury sent students home early Friday because of snow in the firecast for this afternoon, but weather has been an issue for students at Wallace Middle School has had weather issues for the...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut,com
  
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• AAA Expecting Record-Breaking Holiday Travel Season

  15-12-2017 18:26
  
  The end-of-the-year holiday travel forecast is another record breaker with AAA projecting a 3.1 percent increase in travel compared to last December.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Cancer survivor and ‘Real Elf’ returns to hospital to cheer up patients

  15-12-2017 18:15
  CHICAGO -- There was an elf roaming the halls at Rush University Medical Center Thursday, as one of Santa’s helpers made his way back to a place he knows very well.
  Known as "Tommy the Real Elf," Tommy Holl started dressing up as an elf after his friends told him he looked like the Elf on the Shelf reports WGNTV.
  "You can’t take life too seriously. Got to have a sense of humor and a candy cane," Holl said.
  A cancer survivor himself, Holl was treated at Rush, where he walked through t
  
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• College Basketball Games To Watch: UNC Takes On UT In Knoxville

  15-12-2017 18:12
  By Steve Silverman
  Teams are preparing for their conference schedule at this point of year, but the next couple of weeks will see a menu of notable interconference games and holiday tournaments.
  Once the conference schedules begin in earnest, the games become more competitive and entertaining, but interconference games may be the most informative when making end-of-season judgments about which teams belong in the NCAA tournament and where they should be seeded.
  Saturday, December 16
  Virginia Tec
  
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• NY, NJ and Conn. in Top 15 Healthiest States: Report

  15-12-2017 18:08
  
  All three states in the tri-state are among the healthiest in the country, according to an annual report on the nation’s health.Photo Credit: AP
  
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• Father of 3 Shot and Killed in Sprague

  15-12-2017 18:07
  
  A man is dead after a shooting in Sprague Thursday night and detectives from major crimes are investigating.State police have not identified the victim, but a family member said he was a father of three young...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• ‘Today’ Show’s Wrangler is Working With Connecticut State Police

  15-12-2017 18:02
  
  You met Wrangler on the ”Today” show when he was just a puppy and beginning his training to become a service dog and you could be seeing a lot more of him in Connecticut.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.comThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Man Accused of Supplying Lethal Drugs Charged With Negligent Homicide

  15-12-2017 17:42
  
  A man accused of supplying the drugs that led to a man’s death in Naugatuck has been charged with negligent homicide.Photo Credit: Naugatuck Police
  
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• CSCU Board of Regents approves consolidation plan

  15-12-2017 17:17
  HARTFORD -- In a 12-0 vote with one abstention, the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents adopted a plan to consolidate the system's 12 community colleges into one unified, centralized, system.
  "Today's proposal is the beginning. It's the beginning of an effort to change," said Mark Ojakian, CSCU President. "This is about making choices and prioritizing where we spend our limited resources."
  According to CSCU, 60% of funding for its community colleges comes from the state
  
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• Fantasy Football Week 15 Starts And Sits

  15-12-2017 17:10
  By Matt Citak
  If you are reading this, that means your fantasy football season is still alive. You are one win away from making your league’s championship, and CBS Local Sports is here to help you make it to the big game. The NFL came out of Week 14 relatively healthy, with the injury to Carson Wentz being the only significant one to occur (for fantasy purposes). For those fantasy owners who had been riding Wentz’s stellar play all season, don’t fret. There should be several so
  
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• Crews Respond to Minor Chemical Spill at New Haven Lab

  15-12-2017 17:09
  
  Crews responded to after a minor chemical spill at a New Haven lab that tests tissue.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• These states could be the next Alabama

  15-12-2017 16:54
  Watch Video Could the next Roy Moore be awaiting Republicans in Arizona or Nevada?
  With wounds still fresh from the bruising Senate special election in Alabama, party strategists have begun to refocus on a slew of potentially messy party primaries next year — where the challenge of recruiting and elevating candidates who can win in a general election is now more urgent than ever.
  “We’ve learned from Tuesday’s results that candidates matter, and we can’t af
  
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• St. Moritz: Meet the man who lives in an Olympic stadium

  15-12-2017 16:52
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  His back garden has hosted an Olympic opening ceremony, and his bedrooms once served as changing rooms for the world’s best athletes.
  The ski resort of St. Moritz in Switzerland is home to many affluent residents, but none live in a house quite like Rolf Sachs.
  The artist-designer transformed the town’s Olympic Stadium, which hosted two Winter Games in 1928 and 1948, into his own abode after it fell into disrepair over the second half of the 20th Century.
  An Olympic
  
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• Southington Care Provider Stole Guitars from Client: Police

  15-12-2017 16:51
  
  A personal care attendant is accused of stealing electric guitars worth $1,800 from a client in Southington. Police said it appears that once she realized that police were investigating, the woman went back...Photo Credit: Southington Police
  
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• Boy with cancer inspires family to start organic farm

  15-12-2017 16:47
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  Eleven years ago, the Tyson family seemed to have it all. Nicole and Scott Tyson had just bought land in Sharpsburg, Georgia, to build their dream home. They envisioned starting a small farm, with a place for their kids to play.
  Less than a month later, their world changed as they rushed their son Mason to the emergency room on his 4th birthday.
  “We had felt the lump in his abdomen, which we later found out was a tumor,” Nicole said.
  It was stage IV neuroblastoma, a rare
  
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• CBS Sports’ Bill Cowher On Week 15 Patriots-Steelers Matchup

  15-12-2017 16:30
  By Matt Citak
  Week 15 provides us with one of the best matchups of the season, as the New England Patriots will take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at Heinz Field. This late-season clash between the AFC’s top two teams has a lot riding on it, as the winner will likely get home-field advantage and the No. 1 seed in the conference. New England enters this game with a 10-3 record after the Miami Dolphins upset the AFC East-leading Patriots, 27-20, on Monday night, snapping an eight-game winning s
  
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• Man whose relatives died mysteriously wants lawsuit scrapped

  15-12-2017 16:14
  CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire judge is scheduled to hear arguments to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a Vermont man of killing his millionaire grandfather and possibly his mother to collect an inheritance.
  Nathan Carman has been called a suspect in the 2013 shooting death of 87-year-old real estate developer John Chakalos in Connecticut. No one has been arrested. He also has been questioned about the day his boat sank last year near Rhode Island with his mother onboard. She’s presumed d
  
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• SpaceX to launch Space Station resupply rocket

  15-12-2017 15:37
  CAPE CANAVERAL — SpaceX says they will be launching a Falcon 9 rocket, taking with it a Dragon spacecraft to a low-earth orbit to deliver critical cargo to and from the International Space Station for NASA.
  SpaceX is targeting launch of its thirteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-13) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The instantaneous launch window is on Friday, December 15 at 10:36 a.m. EST, or 15:36 UTC. Dragon will separate
  
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• Care 4 Kids Could Close Until 2019

  15-12-2017 15:36
  
  Connecticut's child care subsidy program only recently reopened under the state's budget agreement but it is in jeopardy again.
  
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• Unconscious Man Transported to Hospital After East Windsor Fire

  15-12-2017 15:26
  
  An unconscious man was transported to the hospital after a fire in the Broad Brook section of East Windsor Thursday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Mystic Aquarium to benefit Connecticut SNAP households

  15-12-2017 15:09
  MYSTIC — Governor Malloy announced a partnership with Mystic Aquarium that will allow Connecticut SNAP benefit households to recieve complimentary admission to enjoy the aquarium.
  The aquarium is focused on engaging communities throughout Connecticut in ocean conservation and is trying to reach thsoe communities that currently may not be able to enjoy a visit.
  “Mystic Aquarium is deeply committed to community.  We appreciate this partnership with the Governor and State of Connec
  
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• After officer adopts opioid-addicted baby, mom’s struggle continues

  15-12-2017 14:56
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  ALBUQUERQUE — A chance encounter with a homeless pregnant woman addicted to heroin put Albuquerque Police Officer Ryan Holets on one of the most emotional journeys of his life. Now, two weeks after their story touched millions, there’s a second chapter.
  Holets met Crystal Champ and her partner, Tom Key, shooting up heroin behind a convenience store in September. Champ, 35, was eight months pregnant and living in a tent alongside an Albuquerque interstate. Police body came
  
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• Aaron Murray: Georgia’s Best Defense Against Oklahoma Will Be Their Offense

  15-12-2017 14:24
  Ryan Mayer
  The college football bowl season kicks off this Saturday afternoon with the Celebration Bowl, featuring Grambling and North Carolina A&T. After that, the 39 bowl games featuring FBS teams kick off and it’s two-plus straight weeks of postseason college football action. Football will be played on every day of the week (outside of New Year’s Eve) leading up to the College Football Playoff semifinal games that will take place on New Year’s Day.
  There will be plenty o
  
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• Police Investigate Fatal Shooting In Sprague

  15-12-2017 14:10
  SPRAGUE, Conn. (CBS Connecticut and AP) – Connecticut police are investigating a fatal shooting in the small town of Sprague.
  State police say troopers responded to a disturbance at a home in town just before midnight Thursday and found a male outside suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds.
  The victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
  The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the exact cause and manner of de
  
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• NY Woman Used Bitcoin in Attempt to Send Money to ISIS: Feds

  15-12-2017 06:20
  
  A Long Island woman has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars to send to Islamic State fighters in Syria using Bitcoin.But her lawyer says she was simply collecting money to help Syrian...Photo Credit: Anatoliy Zhdanov/Kommersant via Getty Images
  
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