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• CT Lottery Announces Date for Second Super Draw Drawing

  12-01-2018 23:55 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  CT Lottery announced the second CT Super Draw drawing will be on Jan. 16.Photo Credit: CT Lottery Commission
  
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• Rain and Ice Photos from Jan. 12

  12-01-2018 23:28 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
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• Flu stomps the nation, overwhelming ERs and leaving 20 children dead

  12-01-2018 23:17
  HARTFORD -- The flu virus has reached nearly every corner of the nation.
  Influenza activity is widespread in all states except Hawaii (and the District of Columbia), according to the weekly flu report released Friday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  "Flu is everywhere in the US right now," said Dr. Dan Jernigan, director of the CDC's influenza branch. "This is the first year we've had the entire continental US at the same level (of flu activity) at the same time."
  
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• Eagles Playoff Injury Report: Dannell Ellerbe Questionable For Playoff Matchup Vs. Atlanta Falcons

  12-01-2018 23:14
  By Kevin McGuire
  Two members of the Philadelphia Eagles defense are listed as questionable for Saturday afternoon’s NFC Divisional Round playoff matchup against the Atlanta Falcons. Starting middle linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, who has taken over the role for Joe Walker due to a season-ending injury, is officially listed as questionable for the Eagles this weekend. His potential absence could become a serious concern for the Eagles against the Falcons offense if he is not available on S
  
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• Don’t Expect Many WWE Legends In Women’s Royal Rumble

  12-01-2018 23:02
  By Chuck Carroll
  The Royal Rumble is known for surprises. You never know what WWE Superstar from the past will come through the curtain. We’ve seen the likes of the Honky Tonk Man, the Boogeyman, Kevin Nash, Road Dogg, and the late “Rowdy” Roddy Piper lace up their boots one more time to enter the over the top rope battle royal. And who can forget the year all three faces of Mick Foley competed. Even Drew Carey made a memorable appearance years before taking over hosting duties
  
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• ‘Mississippi Burnings’ killer Killen dies in prison at 92

  12-01-2018 22:41
  JACKSON, Miss.  — Mississippi’s corrections department says Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted in the 1964 ‘Mississippi Burning’ slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the age of 92.
  The part-time preacher and lumber mill operator was 80 when a Neshoba County jury convicted him in 2005 of three counts of manslaughter.
  He was sentenced to 60 years in prison. His conviction came 41 years to the day after Freedom Summ
  
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• Middletown Mayor Withdraws From Governor’s Race

  12-01-2018 22:35
  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – There’s now one less candidate in the crowded race for Connecticut’s next governor.
  Democrat Dan Drew, the mayor of Middletown, and his running mate, state Rep. Liz Linehan of Cheshire, announced Friday they are ending their campaigns for governor and lieutenant governor.In a message posted on Facebook, the two say “it became very difficult to raise the required funds to qualify for public financing.”
  Even though Drew says he raised $
  
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• UConn Says Freshman Guard Espinoza-Hunter Will Transfer

  12-01-2018 22:32
  STORRS, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – UConn coach Geno Auriemma says freshman Andra Espinoza-Hunter has decided to transfer out of the program.
  The 5-foot-10 guard was last year’s high school New York Gatorade Player of the Year and Co-Miss New York State Basketball.
  The Ossining, New York, native averages 2 points and 7 minutes per game for the top-ranked Huskies (14-0) this season.
  She was part of a highly-touted recruiting class that also included small forwards Megan Walker and Alexis Go
  
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• Sam's Club Members Can Sign Up for Special BJ's Offer

  12-01-2018 22:05 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Sam's Club members will be able to sign up for a special membership offer at their local BJ's.Photo Credit: AP
  
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• UConn Hires Chicago Bears’ Dunn As Offensive Coordinator

  12-01-2018 21:22
  STORRS, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – UConn’ football coach Randy Edsall has hired former Chicago Bears assistant coach John Dunn to be his new offensive coordinator.
  Dunn replaces Rhett Lashlee, who left after just one year on the job to take the same position at SMU.
  The school says Dunn, who will also coach the quarterbacks, agreed to a two-year contract worth $300,000 per year.
  He has worked with Edsall before, serving as his tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator at Maryland.
  Dunn
  
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• College Basketball Games Of The Week: UNC-Notre Dame Highlights A Big Weekend

  12-01-2018 21:16
  By Steve Silverman 
  Devonte’ Graham #4 of the Kansas Jayhawks. Credit: Ed Zurga/Getty Images
  Saturday, January 13
  Kansas State (12-4, 2-2) at No. 12 Kansas (13-3, 3-1), 12 noon ET, ESPN
  The Big 12 is the best basketball conference in the nation this year, and while this conference is almost always the domain of the Jayhawks, that may not be the case this year.
  Kansas has plenty of talent and will be near the top of the conference and almost certainly a two or three seed in the NCAA to
  
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• Keidel: NFL Divisional Round Predictions

  12-01-2018 21:10
  By Jason Keidel
  Wild card weekend was merely a preamble to this, the most delicious weekend of the NFL year. In the Divisional Round, the eight best teams play four games over two days to unveil pro football’s final four. We went 2-2 last weekend, which is unacceptable.
  Let’s do better, in order of games played.
  Atlanta Falcons (11-6) @ Philadelphia Eagles (13-3)Saturday, January 13, 2018, 4:35 pm ET
  This is the first time since 1975 that a conference’s top seed is an underdog
  
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• ‘Dignitaries’ Disrupted Crime Scene After Massacre

  12-01-2018 21:06
  By DAVE COLLINS
  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – Connecticut State Police say in a new report on the Newtown school massacre that unnecessary personnel potentially contaminated the crime scene by stepping on bullet casings and glass shards before they were collected for evidence.
  State police released a long-awaited report Friday that reviewed their response to the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
  The report concludes state police
  
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• Tide Pod Challenge: The Viral Challenge Encouraging Teens To Eat Laundry Detergent

  12-01-2018 21:01
  CBS Local — A strange new internet craze coined the “Tide Pod Challenge” has gone viral with teens across the nation.
  Although some internet challenges, such as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, support a good cause, this new trend has doctors and parents nationwide worried about the health of their teens.
  The new trend requires the challenger to post a video of themselves online eating the raw or cooked laundry detergent pod.
  I cooked the boys some good tide pod pizza. What d
  
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• Power Restored on UConn Campus in Storrs

  12-01-2018 20:50 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A power outage is affecting parts of the UConn campus in Storrs.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Suffield Man Charged With Animal Cruelty Over Care of Horses

  12-01-2018 20:42 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  Suffield police have arrested a local man after an investigation into the care of three horses on his property.Photo Credit: Suffield Police
  
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• 5 years later, state police release Sandy Hook ‘after-action report’

  12-01-2018 20:40
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  MIDDLETOWN —  On Friday afternoon Connecticut State Police released a report on the agency’s response to the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left 26 children and educators dead. A 20-year-old gunman killed 20 first-grade children and six educators inside the school before killing himself.
  Police said in a new report that unnecessary personnel potentially contaminated the crime scene by stepping on bullet casings and glass shards before the
  
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• Middletown police investigate incident at Middletown High School

  12-01-2018 19:21
  MIDDLETOWN — Middletown police are investigating an incident involving a white male student posting on social media and showing of a confederate flag.
  Superintendent of Middletown Schools, Dr. Michael Conner, said he couldn’t confirm if any altercation occurred o whether or not anyone had been arrested.
  He said school officials, including the principal, are also investigating.
  He said that the social media post upset members of the school’s African American community, and that
  
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• Chi McBride: ‘Hawaii Five-0 Has The Best Of All Worlds’

  12-01-2018 19:16
  Actor Chi McBride’s childhood foreshadowed his career. The Chicago native spent as much time as he could in front of the television and never missed an episode of “The Carol Burnett Show” on CBS. McBride has worked and become friends with some of the most talented people in Hollywood like Eddie Murphy, Will Smith and Tom Hanks. Yet, the 56-year-old is still humble and grounded. Chi sees the bigger picture in life and the impact of his contribution to society, just like his char
  
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• SportsLine’s Top Weekend Picks: NFL Divisional Match-Ups

  12-01-2018 19:13
  Golden State Warriors vs. Milwaukee BucksFriday, January 12, 2018, 8:00 pm ET
  MILWAUKEE +4.5
  Friday, the Bucks will host the Warriors in a key inter-conference matchup. On the injury report for the Warriors is Steph Curry, who is listed as doubtful with a sprained ankle. Yet the Warriors have already dealt with playing without Curry prior this season and boast a 17-3 away record. Of their nine losses this year, none have come consecutively. That’s where the value lies here, as bettors chas
  
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• Man Fatally Shot Outside New Haven Gas Station

  12-01-2018 18:42 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
  A man was shot and killed outside a gas station in New Haven early Friday morning.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Trump signs MLK Jr. proclamation amid cries of racism

  12-01-2018 18:26
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  President Donald Trump will sign a proclamation Friday declaring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one day after making disparaging comments about Haiti and African countries.
  “Today we celebrate Dr. King for standing up for the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear, that no matter the color of our skin, or the place of our birth we are all created equal by God,” Trump said Friday ahead of the signing.
  On Thursday, while rejecting a pitch from a bipartisan team of sena
  
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• CVS: No Plans To Move Aetna From Hartford

  12-01-2018 18:25
  By SUSAN HAIGHAssociated Press
  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – CVS Health Corp. says it has no plans to move Aetna from Connecticut’s capital city, reversing last year’s announcement by the insurance giant that it would move headquarters to another state.
  Friday’s statement comes days after New York City halted a $9.6 million incentive package.
  CVS Health announced in December it was buying Aetna. At that time, Aetna said all of its locations would be evaluated as part of
  
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• 2 Coast Guard Academy Cadets Punished For Racial Harassment

  12-01-2018 18:16
  NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – Two white cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have been punished for harassing a black classmate.
  A spokesman for the academy in New London, Connecticut, says the commandant of cadets ruled at a hearing Thursday that the cadets violated regulations andordered discipline including demerits and marching tours.
  The academy says one of the cadets played a racially offensive song in the black cadet’s room.
  After leaving to tell a peer counselor, the black cadet
  
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• WATCH: The first man to windsurf down a mountain

  12-01-2018 18:15
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  He swapped sea for snow to go where no man has gone before.
  Levi Siver, a professional windsurfer used to jumping waves and carving turns in the ocean, performed a world first last year when he took his sport to a snow-capped mountain in Japan.
  The 37-year-old, known as “The King of Style,” traveled to Rishiri Island in Hokkaido for a project that had been five years in the making and took 20 days to shoot.
  Braving temperatures as low as -13 degrees celsius, Siver was cap
  
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• State Officials ‘Alarmed’ By Flu Activity

  12-01-2018 18:15
  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC Radio) – Connecticut public health officials say they are “alarmed” by a recent uptick in influenza activity in the state, particularly among those age 65 and older.
  More than 450 people have been hospitalized statewide this season with the flu and 70 percent of them fall into that age group, said public health officials. They said flu activity has pushed some hospitals to capacity. In addition, the 15 flu-related deaths recorded so far this season in Conn
  
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• Top State Senate Republican Condemns Trump Remark

  12-01-2018 18:10
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – The top Republican of the Connecticut Senate is calling on President Donald Trump to apologize for vulgar remarks he reportedly made about immigrants from Africa and Haiti.
  Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fasano says the comments are “beyond inappropriate and offensive” and “fly in the face of what it means tobe Republican and an American.”
  Fasano, who declined to be a Trump delegate and has tried to avoid getting drawn into Trump&
  
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• Tobacco Scheme Nets 2 Arrests

  12-01-2018 18:01
  (New Haven, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Two men are being charged with defrauding the state out of nearly $6-million in a scheme to bypass the tax on tobacco products imported into the state.
  A grand jury in federal court in Bridgeport returned a 13-count indictment on Thursday charging 39-year-old Pavan Vaswani of West Haven and 45-year-old Rishi Malik formerly of Fairfield.
  In the indictment, Vaswani operated KDV Discounts, a wholesale tobacco business in Bridgeport. Malik operated Connecti
  
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• CVS: “No plans to relocate Aetna”

  12-01-2018 17:42
  HARTFORD — Aetna appears to be staying in Hartford, according to the Hartford Courant.
  CVS Health Corp., which is buying Aetna, said Friday it will not relocate Aetna from Hartford.
  A statement from CVS:
  We were in Hartford yesterday and met with the Mayor.  It is important to understand that while CVS Health will continue to be headquartered in Rhode Island, we also operate a number of large corporate hubs, or centers of excellence, in other states, including Arizona, Illin
  
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• North Branford man charged with hacking celebrity accounts

  12-01-2018 17:28
  HARTFORD — A man charged with hacking into more than 250 iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars and ordinary people has agreed to plead guilty.
  Federal prosecutors said the charge against 26-year-old George Garofano stems from the investigation into the 2014 “celebgate” scandal in which the private photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and others were made public.
  The North Branford man agreed to plead guilty to unauthorized access to a protected computer. He faces up to five
  
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• Hamden Police Probe “Suspicious” Activity

  12-01-2018 17:26
  (Hamden, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – Police in Hamden are investigating after they responded to a report of suspicious activity on Thursday.
  An officer was dispatched to Spring Glen School after a 10-year-old girl said she was approached by a female in a small sedan as she walked from her home to her bus stop at Putnam Avenue and Clifford Street.
  The girl described the female as having short hair and a “sweet voice”.
  Police say further investigation suggested that four weeks prior
  
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• School superintendent finds candy ‘bribes’ for snow day on his front porch

  12-01-2018 17:14
  HILLSBORO, Mo. - Winter weather had many students in the St. Louis area excited about a possible snow day Friday, and Superintendent Doc Cornman of Hillsboro Schools tweeted that someone was sending him candy "bribes" to call off school.
  A note with Reese's peanut butter cups placed at his front door read: "You know what to do."
  The first round of "Please Call School Off Tomorrow" candy has arrived. Students in my neighborhood really want a Snow Day!!! They remembered my favorite! pic.twitter.c
  
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• Police investigate homicide at New Haven gas station

  12-01-2018 17:09
  NEW HAVEN — New Haven police said a man was shot at a gas station.
  They said the man was shot outside an Exxon Gas Station at 775 Whalley Avenue just after 3 a.m.
  The victim, Kenneth Cooper, 35, of Waterbury, was taken to the hospital by a woman he was with, according to police there, and died shortly after arriving.
  Police said the woman and Cooper were not associated with the Exxon Station or the convenience store. The woman has not been identified.
  Police said investigators are fol
  
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• Facebook to show more content from friends, less from publishers and brands

  12-01-2018 16:44
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  MELNO PARK, Calif. — Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to devote 2018 to “fixing” Facebook.
  Now the Facebook CEO is kicking off the effort with a move he says is intended to boost the well-being of users, possibly at the expense of the well-being of publishers and other businesses.
  Facebook said late Thursday it is changing the News Feed to prioritize posts from friends, family members and groups over posts from publishers and brands.
  The company will elevate posts t
  
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• Mother of two dies days after going to hospital for flu

  12-01-2018 16:32
  NEEDHAM, Mass. (WCVB) — The death of a mother in Needham is being blamed on the flu.
  Jenny Ching, 51, and her entire family thought she was just battling a bad cold last week when she went to the hospital last Wednesday. Two days later, she died.
  “She had the flu and she also developed a bacterial infection,” her husband Matt Ching said. “It was really severe and caused severe pneumonia.”
  The flu vaccine was a norm for the Needham mother and her two little boys, age
  
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• Texas school closes for ‘flu day’ amid outbreak

  12-01-2018 16:29
  SAN ANTONIO – A school in San Antonio will be closed Friday for a "flu day" amid an outbreak of influenza.
  "While closed, our school will be launching a Super Clean of each classroom for the health of our faculty, staff and students," San Antonio Christian School posted on Facebook.
  Texas has been especially hard-hit by the flu this season, topping Walgreens' Flu Index, which compiles data from prescriptions used to treat the virus' symptoms.
  San Antonio Christian added:
  Our city's Emerge
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Oz Griebel, Candidate For Governor

  12-01-2018 16:25
  Oz Griebel, independent candidate for governor, and Monte Frank, independent candidate for lieutenant governor, are offering Connecticut a third choice in this year’s race for governor. No Parties. No Politics. Just Solutions. Learn more, straight from the candidates.
   
  
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• Ray Dunaway: Connecticut’s Image Problem

  12-01-2018 16:25
  Bill Curry, Columnist with Salon.com, talks about the bigger picture for Connecticut’s image problem.
   
  
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