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• Nassar lawyer doubts some assault victims

  01-02-2018 23:37
  MICHIGAN —  A lawyer for Larry Nassar says she has doubts about the large number of women and girls who say they were sexually assaulted by the Michigan sports doctor.
  Shannon Smith tells radio station WWJ that she has a “very hard time” believing that Nassar could have assaulted more than 250 victims. She says it’s “really unfortunate” if some girls stepped forward only because of all the attention in the last few weeks.
  Nassar released a statement Thurs
  
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• ‘This is gonna change our lives’: Man wins $1M lottery jackpot, dies suddenly 3 weeks later

  01-02-2018 23:36
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  SIDNEY, N.Y. – A man who won a $1 million lottery jackpot died just weeks after winning the big prize.
  WABC reports that Donald Savastano won the money on the New York Lottery’s Merry Millionaire ticket in January and had quite a few things he wanted to do the money – including funding his retirement.
  “This is going change our lives, to tell you the truth,” Savastano said after winning. “I’m probably going to go get a new truck and
  
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• New Monopoly edition encourages players to cheat their way to the top

  01-02-2018 23:31
  Have a tendency to cheat at Monopoly?
  Then the latest version of the classic real estate trading game is just for you!
  Hasbro is releasing a special “cheaters” edition of the board game.
  Monopoly: Cheaters Edition works much like the regular game, but players are also encouraged to cheat by stealing money from the bank or moving another player’s token without anyone noticing.
  In addition to the Community Chest and Chance Cards, the game includes 15 “Cheat Cards” th
  
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• 9 Overdoses Reported Within 6 Hours in New Haven Area: Officials

  01-02-2018 23:21
  
  There have been at least nine overdoses in the New Haven area within the last six hours, New Haven Emergency Operations Deputy Director Rick Fontana said.
  
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• CT Flu Deaths Up By 20

  01-02-2018 22:49
  (Hartford, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – The flu continues it’s march across the state.
  There’ve been 20 more deaths related to the flu in the last week.
  That puts the number at 52 deaths for the season attributed to the virus in Connecticut.
  Over 11-hundred had been hospitalized in the last five months.
  The vast majority of the deaths–41–were from the H3N2 strain.
  Forty-four of the deaths were among patients aged 65 and older.
  in addition, the state Department of Public
  
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• Make Sure You Have America’s Favorite Super Bowl Food At Your Party This Sunday

  01-02-2018 21:39
  By Joel Balsam, AskMen
  Super Bowl LII is just days away and you can be sure the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles are getting into that game winning frame of mind — are you?
  A new AskMen and Offers.com 1,000-person survey found that 27.2% of Americans have a Super Bowl ritual to get themselves primed on gameday. Three in ten watch the game with the same friends every year, while 24% wear a lucky jersey (hopefully washed). Playoff beards aren’t just for hockey, as 15%
  
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• Woman Accused of Fake Cookie Sale Burglaries in Waterford Arrested

  01-02-2018 21:20
  
  Waterford police have arrested a woman they said went door-to-do, using a fake cookie sale to get into people’s houses and steal items.Photo Credit: Waterford Police
  
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• Glastonbury Daycare Worker Accused of Child Abuse Sentenced to Prison

  01-02-2018 21:14
  
  An employee of a Glastonbury daycare who was accused of hitting several 2-year-old children at the daycare will serve a year and eight months in prison.Photo Credit: Glastonbury Police
  
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• WWE’s Natalya And Lana: Ronda Rousey Will Make Us Better

  01-02-2018 20:55
  By Chuck Carroll
  History continues to be made in WWE, where the women’s division remains a priority. Nay. The priority. For the first time ever, a women’s match was the main event at the Royal Rumble. It had to be. Even without the debut of Ronda Rousey, the 30-woman over-the-top-rope battle royal had been built up to an epic level. In a world known for outrageous storylines, it’s clear that there’s no scripting the emotions felt by the female superstars who are finally g
  
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• Suspect in East Harford Shooting Found in North Carolina

  01-02-2018 20:50
  
  A suspect in the shooting at Krauser’s in East Hartford on Jan. 18 was taken into custody on North Carolina, according to police and the U.S. Marshals Office.Photo Credit: East Hartford Police
  
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• Victoria Chun Becomes First Female Athletic Director At Yale

  01-02-2018 19:56
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – Colgate Athletic Director Victoria Chun has been named as athletic director Yale, the first woman to be appointed to the position at the university.
  The 49-year-old replaces Tom Beckett, who is retiring from his 24-year tenure at the end of the academic year.
  Chun, who is a former Colgate volleyball player, says her focus at Yale will be expanding a winning culture that is grounded in strong academics.
  Yale President Peter Salovey noted that in the six year
  
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• School: Student Grades, Focus Improve After Cellphone Ban

  01-02-2018 19:50
  SEYMOUR, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – Students at a Connecticut high school are reporting higher grades and more focus in the classroom since the school instituted a blanket ban on cellphone use.
  Seymour High School Principal Jim Freund said the school banned cellphones Dec. 11 following instances of “mean spirited behavior” through text messages and social media.
  Students are only allowed to use their phones at the teacher’s instruction or while using a classroom app.
  Students
  
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• Man Sentenced To 4 Years In Prison For Pipe Bomb Explosion

  01-02-2018 19:48
  SOUTHBURY, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – A Connecticut man who police say detonated a pipe bomb on a rural road has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.
  A judge sentenced 34-year-old Brian Fluman, of Southbury, to 57 months in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to possession of a destructive device by a convicted felon.
  Police were called to Woodbury in April 2017 after receiving reports of loud explosions. Investigators found a burned and blackened road and pieces from a pipe b
  
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• This Week In College Basketball: Purdue Climbing The AP Rankings

  01-02-2018 19:40
  By Steve Silverman
  Purdue unexpectedly climbs the ladder
  In a season in which many of the usual suspects are playing solid but unspectacular basketball, there is a good chance that one or two teams could emerge from the pack and challenge college basketball’s power structure.
  Villanova remains at the top of the heap, and Virginia, Duke, Kansas and Michigan State – despite being under fire from the school’s sexual abuse crisis – are all in striking distance.
  But, the Purdu
  
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• School Districts Already Planning to Make Up Snow Days

  01-02-2018 18:56
  
  Dozens of school districts across the state have experienced a high number of cancellations because of the weather, and they are already planning how they’re going to make up for that missed time.
  
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• Dr. Phil Talks Career, Relationships And Influences

  01-02-2018 18:24
  Dr. Phil McGraw has been an institution in American society for almost two decades. Through the platform of his nationally syndicated program “The Dr. Phil Show,” McGraw takes the topics that are toughest to talk about and gives them light. This idea can be seen in today’s show as a 21-year-old woman named Bailey believes she is in love with a woman she met through the Internet and has never met in person.
  Dr. Phil talked with CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith about his career, tod
  
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• Gas Leak Closes Farmington Avenue and Whitney Street in Hartford

  01-02-2018 17:24
  
  Farmington Avenue and Whitney Street in Hartford are closed as emergency crews investigate a gas leak.Photo Credit: Hartford Police
  
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• Court Denies Request For Reconsideration In Education Funding Lawsuit

  01-02-2018 17:09
  (CBS Connecticut) — The state Supreme Court has denied an effort to get the justices to reconsider their ruling in a major education funding lawsuit.
  The one page order from the high court simply states that the request for reconsideration is denied.
  The Connecticut Coalition for Justice In Education Funding had asked for reconsideration after the high court rejected the coalition’s lawsuit.  If it had succeeded, the suit could have led to changes to the way schools are funded i
  
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• Yard Goats to Hold National Anthem Auditions for Fans

  01-02-2018 17:07
  
  If you can sing, you have a chance to sing the National Anthem before Hartford Yard Goats fans at Dunkin’ Donuts Park in Hartford.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• President Trump to declassify surveillance memo, sources say

  01-02-2018 16:57
  WASHINGTON DC — President Trump is expected to declassify a controversial memo on purported surveillance abuses, sources tell Fox News, even as Democrats raise objections that edits were made to the document.
  Fox News is told that the White House will declassify the latest version, which sources said included “technical edits” at the request of the FBI.
  House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff is accusing chairman Devin Nunes of sending a different version o
  
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• Pizza shop workers take down armed robber, only to find it’s their former boss

  01-02-2018 16:45
  BARRE, MA — A former pizza shop employee in Massachusetts is accused of trying to rob his old workplace.
  Police say a man wearing a mask and carrying what turned out to be a fake gun walked into Northeast Pizza in Barre on Tuesday, according to CNN affiliate WCVB.
  Surveillance video shows the man climbing over the counter and forcing one of the workers to help him open the register. Employees wrestled him to the floor and held him there until police arrived.
  “I was just frozen i
  
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• WorkinCT: Southington man makes indestructible mailbox

  01-02-2018 16:30
  Do you frequently see mailboxes becoming roadside victims? They are broken off, barely hanging on or with some makeshift protection. It can happen in Connecticut especially when we see a snow storm. It was last winter that Gary Celella, Junior caught a glimpse and came up with a solution.
  “There was a bad storm and I was driving down the road seeing all the smashed mailboxes, and it just popped into my head,” said Celella.
  He created a mailbox that’s indestructible, no matter
  
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• Price Cut For UConn Football Season Ticket Holders

  01-02-2018 16:03
  (Storrs, Conn./CBS Connecticut) – UConn is announcing it plans to cut the price for season ticket holders for the 2018 football campaign.
  Those holding season tickets who receive their renewal notices today will see prices reduced by 10-percent from 2017, according to the UConn Athletic Department.
  Athletic Director David Benedict says the purpose for the reduction is twofold: maximizing the fan experience and encouraging more fans to participate in UConn Football Gameday.
  In addition, Ben
  
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• Ian Baker-Finch On Phoenix Open: ‘Ideal Conditions For Scoring’

  01-02-2018 16:00
  By Dave Shedloski
  The seating capacity at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, site of Super Bowl LII, is 65,400. Attendance for last year’s Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale was roughly 10 times that number, over the span of four days. The two events share the stage again this Sunday on the sporting landscape.
  There’s almost no question the loudest fans will be attending the popular PGA TOUR event near Phoenix, Arizona.
  The Greatest Show on Grass returns this weekend on C
  
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• Super Bowl Picks: Will The Eagles Upset The Patriots?

  01-02-2018 15:56
  CBS Local Sports talent from across the country looks at the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl match-up. Who are our NFL experts picking?
  
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• Man Tries to Steal Hartford Officer’s Car from Police Station Lot: Police

  01-02-2018 15:56
  
  A Hartford man was arrested while trying to steal a police officer’s car right from the police department parking lot, according to authorities.Photo Credit: Hartford Police
  
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• FDA cracks down on anti-diarrhea drug abuse amid spike in overdoses

  01-02-2018 15:24
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the fight against the nation’s opioid epidemic, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that one common antidiarrheal drug should be given new packaging.
  The agency is working with manufacturers to change the packaging of the drug loperamide to include blister packs and single-dose packaging, which could reduce the likelihood of overdose, according to FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
  Loperamide, sold under brand names such as Imodium, is
  
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• Eagles Team Headlines: Is This Finally The Year?

  01-02-2018 15:02
  By Kevin McGuire
  The New England Patriots may have Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, but even the combo of an all-time great head coach and all-time great quarterback has proven to not be invincible in the Super Bowl. Come Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles will look to hand Belichick and Brady their third Super Bowl loss. Brace yourselves, Philadelphia, because these Eagles have the tools needed to do what few are expecting to see in Super Bowl LII in Minnesota.
  Eagles are Underdogs Despite Havin
  
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• Guilford Superintendent speaks on the fatal shooting of 15-year-old student

  01-02-2018 14:57
  GUILFORD — Police said a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in Guilford Wednesday.
  Guilford police said when they arrived they found two teenage boys in a home on Seaside Avenue near Chittenden Park. Police said 15-year-old Ethan Song suffered a gun shot wound and was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was then pronounced dead.
  Police said Song was a freshman at Guilford High School.
  “As you can imagine this is a very tragic event for the town,” said Guilford Police
  
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• Man Threw Brick Through Police Window So He’d Be Arrested: Police

  01-02-2018 14:51
  
  A man who threw a brick through a window at the Hartford police station early Thursday morning told police he threw it because he wanted to be arrested, according to police.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Abandoned Illinois prison to become haunted house for Halloween 2018

  01-02-2018 14:40
  JOLIET, IL — It’s never too early to start planning your Halloween and now,the Old Joliet Prison could be a spooky stop for you, WGNTV reports.
  The haunted house company Evil Intentions has announced it’s adding the Old Joliet Prison to its locations.They made the announcement on YouTube earlier this week saying:
  Evil Intentions is opening the doors to the terrifying Old Joliet Prison. Walk the hallways of Chicago’s most notorious killers like John Wayne Gacy, Richard Sp
  
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• No. 7 South Carolina Managing UConn Prep, Missouri Fallout

  01-02-2018 14:22
  By PETE IACOBELLIAP Sports Writer
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (WTIC and AP) – South Carolina coach Dawn Staley has had to multi-task this week, dealing with serious concerns on and off the court.
  Staley and the Gamecocks have preparing to play No. 1 UConn while the coach dealt with comments by Missouri athletic director Jim Sterk’s comments that she fostered a hostile atmosphere during last Sunday’s game against the Tigers.
  “I’m a master compartmentalist,” Staley said Wedn
  
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• Officer Cleared In Teen’s Death Remains On Paid Leave

  01-02-2018 14:17
  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – A Connecticut police officer cleared last week in the killing of an unarmed teenager remains on paid administrative leave.
  A spokesman for Bridgeport police told the Hartford Courant on Wednesday that Officer James Boulay would be on leave until an internal investigation of the shooting is complete.
  Waterbury State’s Attorney Maureen Platt said in a report released last Friday that Boulay was justified when he fatally shot 15-year-old Jayson Negron in
  
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• Patriots Team Headlines: Tom Brady Has An Open-Ended Contract And Gronk Still Not Out Of Concussion Protocol

  01-02-2018 14:14
  By Danny Cox
  As if the media week leading up to the Super Bowl wasn’t enough stress, Tom Brady walked out of a radio interview earlier this week after confronting one of the hosts. The confrontation was in regards to an earlier comment in which WEEI host Alex Reimer called Brady’s five-year-old daughter an annoying “pissant” in her appearance in Brady’s “Tom vs. Time” documentary. While obviously protective of his daughter and justified in his
  
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• Man Charged In Sex Trafficking Ring Rejects Plea Deal

  01-02-2018 14:13
  DANBURY, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – A Connecticut businessman charged in a sex trafficking ring has rejected a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid prison time.
  Bruce Bemer was arrested last year and charged with patronizing a trafficked person in connection with what authorities called a long-running human trafficking ring based in Danbury. Authorities say some victims were young people with mental illnesses.
  Bemer rejected an offer of probation Wednesday and opted for trial by jury.
  
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• President Trump’s first tweets after ‘unifying’ State of the Union slam Democrats

  01-02-2018 14:10
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  WASHINGTON DC — President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address on Tuesday was billed as a “unifying” speech that looked to bridge a partisan divide that has only grown during his first year in Office.
  Then the President took to Twitter.
  The President’s first two tweets after the State of the Union slammed Democrats Thursday for not getting behind his immigration, infrastructure and tax plans and complained that all the opposing party does is &
  
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• Teen delivers hundreds of solar lamps to Puerto Ricans without power

  01-02-2018 14:07
  SAN JUAN — More than four months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, 15-year-old Salvador Gomez Colon is shocked by the poor living conditions that persist in many of the towns throughout the island.
  “There is so much need,” said Gomez Colon. “People are still shoveling debris around their homes. With no power, the elderly are struggling with the heat.”
  Nearly half a million of Puerto Rico’s residents still don’t have power. Families are livi
  
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• Serial Burglars Used Social Media to Find Homes: Police

  01-02-2018 13:51
  
  Glastonbury police have arrested two people accused of breaking into at least six homes, and say the suspects used social media to pick their targets.Photo Credit: Glastonbury Police Department
  
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• Olympic doping ban overturned for 28 Russian athletes

  01-02-2018 13:07
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  LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Doping bans on 28 Russian athletes were overturned on Thursday, throwing the International Olympic Committee’s policy on Russian doping into chaos just over a week before the start of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
  The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the appeals of athletes given lifetime Olympic bans for doping violations during the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, saying there was insufficient evidence to show they had broken
  
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• Service Restored After Water Main Break at Busy West Hartford Intersection

  01-02-2018 13:02
  
  A water main break at the intersection of Albany Avenue and North Main Street in West Hartford caused headaches for drivers and area businesses Wednesday.Photo Credit: Submitted
  
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• Man tries to steal Hartford cop car

  01-02-2018 12:20
  HARTFORD — Stupid is as stupid does.  A Hartford man has been arrested after he tried stealing a cop car.
  Around 2:40 a.m., a Hartford police officer was having issues with the car’s battery. He started the car and left it running for a short amount of time in the police parking lot.
  When he came back to the car, he saw it was slowly moving from the parked position.
  Panicking, the officer ran to the car, thinking he left it in drive. However it was actually Christian Rodriguez,
  
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• San Francisco retroactively tossing thousands of marijuana convictions

  01-02-2018 11:17
  SAN FRANCISCO — Good news for people who had a marijuana-related conviction in San Francisco during the past 40-plus years.
  There’s a good chance it will be removed from their records or be downgraded.
  On Wednesday, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said his office is going to look into thousands of cases dating back to 1975, retroactively applying a new California law legalizing some recreational cannabis possession.
  The new law allows people whose past
  
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• Accusations Devin Nunes of altering FBI memo before sending to White House

  01-02-2018 10:58
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  WASHINGTON DC — House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff is accusing chairman Devin Nunes of sending a different version of the memo alleging FBI surveillance abuses to the White House than what the committee approved.
  In a letter to Nunes, Schiff said that his staff discovered Wednesday evening that the memo sent to the White House was “materially different” than the version on which the committee voted.
  The White House is currently reviewing the fou
  
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• Teacher apologizes for misspelling ‘Hillary Clinton’ on 11-year-old’s letter

  01-02-2018 10:37
  SUNBURY, Pa. – A Pennsylvania middle school teacher has apologized for misspelling Hillary Clinton’s name on a letter from one of his students, 11-year-old Mary Reinard.
  Mary asked her teacher at Shikellamy Middle School, Benjamin Attinger, for help writing to the former presidential candidate. Attinger addressed the envelope and sent Mary home with it.
  Instead of “Hillary,” however, Attinger addressed the letter to “Hiliar,” according to Mary’s parents.
  
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• Woman says Cadillac’s heated seats caused car to burst into flames

  01-02-2018 10:28
  NOBLESVILLE, Ind. – An Indiana woman is looking for answers after her 2015 Cadillac CTS suddenly caught fire while it was warming up Sunday evening.
  Lauren Rummell told WXIN she was preparing to leave her sister’s house in Greenfield with her 14-month-old son around 6:45 p.m., when she carried her son outside and saw smoke pouring from her parked car. Within seconds, the smoke had given way to visible flames coming from the main cabin of the car.
  “I stood there and just w
  
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• Snow Thursday night into Friday; Cold weekend

  01-02-2018 10:20
  Parts of the state could see flurries overnight into early Thursday. This will be most likely for northwestern Connecticut. Otherwise it will be cloudy with temperatures near 30 degrees by daybreak. There might be a few slick spots Thursday morning for towns that see a few flakes but most of the state should be fine for the commute.
  Most of the day Thursday will be dry, cloudy and mild with highs near 40 degrees.Then tomorrow night rain will develop and some of that could change to snow just be
  
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• Wethersfield High School student displays serious work of art

  01-02-2018 05:56
  WETHERSFIELD --  Yasmin Lazu, always enjoyed art, but realized it was more than just a hobby in 5th grade when it became her passion.
  Lazu is this month’s featured student artist chosen for her outstanding work in visual arts and dedication to her craft.
  “I feel like my art can use work so I thought I didn’t deserve it but I was happy to win," said Lazu, a junior at Wethersfield High School. "I was surprised and pretty excited because I’ve been working really hard o
  
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• Serial Robbers Used Social Media to Find Homes: Police

  01-02-2018 05:26
  
  Glastonbury police have arrested two people accused of breaking into at least six homes, and say the suspects used social media to pick their targets.Photo Credit: Glastonbury Police Department
  
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• Eversource on possible rate hikes: ‘It will ensure better service’

  01-02-2018 05:01
  BRANFORD --  The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) held a hearing Wednesday night to get input on possible rate hikes for the utility company.
  Several people voiced concerns over the possible hike saying they are on fixed incomes and Eversource is not passing on savings to the customer.
  Eversource and the state agreed to an increase in the distribution rate over the next three years. Eversource said its request is necessary to provide the best service for customers.
  On Friday,&n
  
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• Guilford High School, community offer support in response to teen fatally shot

  01-02-2018 04:48
  GUILFORD -- Police have identified the 15-year old as Ethan Song, a freshman at Guilford High School.
  The school has offered support to his classmates. Many people in town said the tragedy hit home for them, especially for parents.
  The superintendent of Guilford Public Schools sent a letter to students, parents and staff and reassured them support will be provided to get through the tragic incident.
  "She was very very sad," Martin Smith of Guilford.
  Smith is a father of a sophomore at the high
  
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