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• I-84 eastbound in Manchester congested following a motor vehicle accident

  08-02-2018 22:41
  MANCHESTER – I-84 eastbound is congested between exits 63 and 64 following a motor vehicle accident.
  #cttraffic I84 E/B at Exit 63 expect extended delays due to multi car accident. Right lane remains open. Seek alternate route. pic.twitter.com/OY1h7gG7CT
  — CT State Police (@CT_STATE_POLICE) February 8, 2018At this time, there is no word if anyone was injured. No other details have been released.
  
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• iPhone Secret Code Revealed In ‘Biggest Leak In History’

  08-02-2018 22:36
  CBS Local — One of Apple’s most guarded secrets has reportedly been leaked online by an anonymous source. The source code for a core component of the iPhone’s operating system was posted to the software development platform GitHub; drawing a quick response from the tech giant.
  According to a report from Motherboard, the code is called “iBoot” and is responsible for ensuring your iPhone properly loads iOS when you turn your device on. It also loads and verifies that
  
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• Boy trapped inside claw machine rescued by firefighters

  08-02-2018 22:33
  Credit:  Titusville Fire and Emergency Services
  TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A young boy had to be rescued from a claw-style vending machine at a restaurant in Florida on Wednesday.
  Firefighter Jeremy House was eating dinner at Beef O’Brady’s in Titusville when he heard someone yell to call 911.
  The boy got stuck inside the machine while trying to retrieve a prize, according to a Facebook post by Titusville Fire and Emergency Services:
  “Often times we say to ourselves tha
  
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• Man plans to sue hospital after MRI mishap leads to lasting burn injury

  08-02-2018 22:32
  LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A man burned during an MRI mistake at a California hospital says the hospital hasn’t even apologized, and he's planning to sue.
  Nick Kruth, who has diabetes, went to Glendale Adventist Medical Center after experiencing low blood pressure and weakness in his legs in the Summer of 2016, according to KTLA.
  Routine tests ordered by doctors included an electrocardiogram and an MRI.
  Kruth told KTLA that a tab from the EKG containing metal was left on his stomach befor
  
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• This Week In College Basketball: NCAA Tournament Top Seeds Right Now

  08-02-2018 22:27
  By Steve Silverman
  The countdown is on, and we are just a little bit more than a month away from Selection Sunday and the start of the NCAA tournament.
  Here’s a look at the four best teams in the country right now, and unless they get hit hard by injuries, they seem likely to remain in those spots come tournament time.
  Villanova Wildcats (22-2)
  The Wildcats are loaded with talent and excellent leadership, both on the floor and the bench. Jalen Brunson (19.8 ppg, 54.4 shooting percentage) i
  
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• Dow plunges 1,033 points and sinks into correction

  08-02-2018 22:00
  For the second time this week, the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points.
  And it’s now in a correction — 10% off its record high just two weeks ago.
  Fears about the bond market, inflation and interest rates seized investors again Thursday and drove the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all into the red for the year.
  The Dow finished with a decline of 1,033 points, the second-worst in history, eclipsed only by Monday’s 1,175-point plunge.
  The percentage decline on Thursday, 4.2%,
  
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• Jimmy Garoppolo agrees to record deal with 49ers

  08-02-2018 21:56
  SAN FRANCISCO —  Former New England Patriots backup quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo just got PAID!
  Garoppolo inked a 5-year deal worth $137.5 million, making this the largest deal in NFL history on an average-per-year basis, according to NFL.com.
  Garoppolo was traded in October by the Patriots to the San Francisco 49ers  in exchange for a 2018 second-round pick. Garoppolo led the 49ers to 5 wins in 6 games played. In the only loss with Garoppolo at quarterback, he com
  
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• Reddit bans fake porn that uses other people’s faces

  08-02-2018 21:34
  Reddit is following other internet platforms in cracking down on fake porn that’s made with the help of artificial intelligence.
  The type of content, known as “deepfakes,” superimposes someone’s face onto an explicit photo or video without that person’s permission.
  Reddit’s move comes after people began using artificial intelligence software to realistically edit celebrities’ faces onto porn stars’ bodies. The website Motherboard first re
  
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• I-395 Southbound closed in Killingly due to crash

  08-02-2018 21:13
  KILLINGLY – A crash has closed I-395 Southbound Thursday afternoon.
  I-395 Southbound was closed between Exits 41 and 38 due to the crash. CT DOT said, “Traffic exiting off exit 41 which is Rte 101 in Killingly. (1 Vehicle). Reported Thursday, February 8 at 2:40 pm.”
  For the latest traffic information on traffic, click here. 
  
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• Problems reported with Uber ridesharing app

  08-02-2018 21:03
  HARTFORD — Ride share customers are reporting problems with the Uber app Thursday.
  Reports of problems spiked on Outage.report/uber around 2:30 p.m.
  There was no information on the company’s website. However they have been responding to complaints on Twitter.
  Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Our team is currently reviewing, and we hope to get this resolved shortly.
  — Uber Support (@Uber_Support) February 8, 2018@Uber_Support The Uber Driver app won’t let
  
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• MassMutual To Move 1,500 Jobs From Connecticut To Massachusetts

  08-02-2018 20:38
  (CBS Connecticut) — MassMutual has announced plans to move about 1,500 jobs to Springfield, Massachusetts over the next four years.  The employees are expected to come from Enfield.
  MassMutual is currently the largest taxpayer in Enfield, and one of the communities largest employers.
  Enfield officials say they are hopeful about quickly luring another company to take over the facility in their community.
  They say the building was recently renovated, and the grounds are well maintained.
  
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• Scientists Say Certain Foods Linked To Spread Of Cancer

  08-02-2018 20:37
  CBS Local — New research is claiming that one particular amino acid — found in everything from beef, to poultry, to eggs, and vegetables — has been linked to the spread of cancer.
  Asparagine, which takes its name from asparagus, was first isolated by scientists in 1806 studying asparagus juice. It’s also been blamed for the smell some people report coming from their urine after eating the spring vegetable. A recent study, published in the jou
  
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• Back taxes on Aaron Hernandez’s former Massachusetts home paid

  08-02-2018 20:20
  NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. — The more than $115,000 in back taxes owed on the Massachusetts home that once belonged to former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez have been paid.
  The tax collector in North Attleborough tells The Sun Chronicle that Hernandez’s estate paid $60,000 toward the lien in December while the new owners of the home paid the remaining $55,000 last month.
  Hernandez bought the home for $1.3 million in 2012. It was sold in November for $1 million.
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• Back taxes on Aaron Hernandez’s former home paid

  08-02-2018 20:20
  NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. — The more than $115,000 in back taxes owed on the Massachusetts home that once belonged to former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez have been paid.
  The tax collector in North Attleborough tells The Sun Chronicle that Hernandez’s estate paid $60,000 toward the lien in December while the new owners of the home paid the remaining $55,000 last month.
  Hernandez bought the home for $1.3 million in 2012. It was sold in November for $1 million.
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• Crews investigating ‘white powder’ incident at federal building in Hartford

  08-02-2018 19:47
  HARTFORD — Emergency crews are responding to  an incident involving white powder at a federal office building Thursday afternoon.
  According to The Hartford Police Department, the call came in at around 1 p.m. for the William Cotter Federal Office Building on 135 High Street in Hartford. The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and Hartford Police and Fire departments were on the scene.
  High Street was closed in the area of the building.
  The building houses offices for th
  
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• Fire Destroys East Hartford Store

  08-02-2018 19:45
  (East Hartford, CT/WTIC) – Fire officials in East Hartford say the blaze that destroyed a store in town late last night was electrical in nature.
  Assistant Fire Chief Wiliam Perez the fire was reported just before midnight at the Welcome Market on Main Street when a passerby called 911.
  He says it appears the fire started in a basement electrical panel.
  No injuries were reported and it took around three dozen firefighters about an hour to knock down the blaze.
  A neighboring store also sust
  
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• Police ID 70-Year-Old Man Who Died After Car Hit Him in Greenwich

  08-02-2018 19:43
  
  A 70-year-old man was killed when he was hit by a vehicle on Milbank Avenue in Greenwich Wednesday and police have identified him as Robert Bono, of Greenwich.
  
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• MassMutual to close Enfield office, build new Boston campus in $300M investment in Mass.

  08-02-2018 19:31
  SPRINGFIELD — MassMutual will close its offices in Enfield, and about 1,500 people who work there will move to Springfield,  according to masslive.com.
  MassMutual announced plans Thursday for a major expansion in Massachusetts including a $300 million investment and 2,000 jobs to the Commonwealth over the next four years.
  MassMutual is also closing offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, Somerset, New Jersey, Memphis, Tenn., and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
  The 2,000 jobs in Mass. include 1
  
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• State official say 11 more deaths now linked to the flu

  08-02-2018 19:08
  HARTFORD — State officials said 11 more people died from flu related causes in the period up to February 3, bringing the season’s total to 63.
  The Department of Public Health said the following in a press release Thursday:
  A total of 1,360 patients have been hospitalized with confirmed cases of flu between August 27, 2017 and February 3, 2018. 63 deaths have been attributed to the flu (50 associated with flu A, 13 with flu B) so far this season. Of these deaths, 52 were among patient
  
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• Norwegian Olympic Team Sent 15,000 Eggs After Google Translate Error

  08-02-2018 18:51
  CBS Local — With about 90 nations participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics there are bound to be issues with translating one country’s language to another. For Norway’s Olympic team, something got really “scrambled” as the team’s chefs were sent 15,000 eggs because of a Google Translate error.
  The chefs, who are catering for 109 Norwegian athletes at the Pyeongchang games, reportedly placed an order using Google Translate for 1,500 eggs to be delivered to the
  
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• Fire Damages Middletown Apartment Complex

  08-02-2018 18:48
  (CBS Connecticut) — Firefighters are on the scene of a blaze in an apartment complex on Town Colony Drive in Middletown right now.
  Several people were rescued from the fire, along with several pets.
  There is no immediate word if anyone was hurt in the fire.
  Part of the building’s roof was destroyed.
  
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• ‘Super Wood’ Could Replace Steel, Engineers Say

  08-02-2018 18:42
  CBS Local — Stronger than steel, cheaper than carbon fiber, capable of stopping a speeding bullet. It sounds like a futuristic material from outer space, but engineers say the revolutionary new substance is actually made of wood.
  “This new way to treat wood makes it 12 times stronger than natural wood and 10 times tougher,” the University of Maryland’s Liangbing Hu said in a press release. “This could be a competitor to steel or even titanium alloys,
  
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• Icy Conditions Led to School Delays

  08-02-2018 18:35
  
  Freezing rain Wednesday created icy conditions throughout the state and sent cars sliding across the streets, and with temperatures dropping overnight, the risk continues Thursday morning.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Fire Marshal Investigating Mill Fire in Killingly

  08-02-2018 18:15
  
  The fire marshal is investigating after a fire at a mill in Killingly Thursday morning.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Arrest After 1-year-old Submerged In Tub, Injured In Head, Ingested Alcohol Before Death

  08-02-2018 17:54
  (CBS Connecticut) — Torrington Police today arrested a 27-year-old city resident in the death of a 15-month-old boy.  The medical examiner found that the child’s death was a homicide, and that the boy had been submerged in a tub, suffered acute alcohol intoxication, and suffered head injuries.
  Twenty-seven year-old Alex Ciccarelli-Rosa is charged with second degree manslaughter, risk of injury to a minor and tampering with evidence in the death of Evan Standish.
  The boy died on
  
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• 3 rescued from Middletown apartment fire

  08-02-2018 17:54
  MIDDLETOWN — A large fire on Town Colony Drive in Middletown has multiple fire departments responding.
  The fire broke out this afternoon. Fire crews are dealing with cold temperatures and freezing, icy conditions. Smoke could be seen from miles away.
  The fire was in the Northwoods East Apartments, Building 10.The call came in at 11:15 am. Three people were rescued from the building along with several pets. All are in good condition.
  Three minor injuries to residents, including a brok
  
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• Torrington man arrested for death of 15-month-old

  08-02-2018 17:40
  TORRINGTON — Police arrested a man who they said left a child unattended in a bathtub, who later died.
  Police said the incident happened on June 6 in a second-floor apartment at 420 South Main Street. Police said that at just before 11 a.m., Litchfield County Dispatch received a 911 call from a female saying that her child, Evan Standish, was unconscious and needed help there.
  Police said the mother came home when she found the baby found  unresponsive in the bathtub. P
  
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• Edge Reflects On WWE Royal Rumble, Paige Injury

  08-02-2018 17:27
  By Chuck Carroll
  The last month in WWE can best be summed up by an impassioned speech by James Earl Jones’ character Terence Mann in Field Of Dreams. Standing in front of a baseball field carved into an Iowa cornfield, his unmistakable voice boomed: “It’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces.” Indeed, if you bring back Superstars of the past, people will come.
  Between the 25t
  
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• Rottweiler puppy miraculously survives after eating bottle of Gorilla Glue

  08-02-2018 17:03
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - You wouldn't know it by looking at her now, but over the weekend a Kansas City couple's Rottweiler almost died after she ate a bottle of Gorilla Glue.
  Now, Theresa Sanders and Aaron Blake are just thankful for their energetic 7-month-old puppy's comeback.
  “It was such a blur of a night for us. We cried all weekend," Sanders told WDAF.
  “The diagnosis wasn’t good. It all just happened so fast,” Blake added.
  He said one minute he was repairing exercise eq
  
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• Court Upholds $41.5M Verdict In Student Disease Lawsuit

  08-02-2018 16:53
  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – A federal appeals court has upheld a $41.5 million verdict against a private Connecticut boarding school that was sued by a former student who became ill and suffered brain damage on a school trip to China.
  A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by the Hotchkiss School on Tuesday.
  Cara Munn was a student at the school in Salisbury when she contracted tick-borne encephalitis during the 2007 trip when she was 15. Lawyer
  
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• Eagles fans flock to Philadelphia streets for Super Bowl parade

  08-02-2018 16:25
  PHILADELPHIA — E! A! G! L! E! S! EAGLES!
  Eagles fans, still basking in the euphoria of the team’s first-ever Super Bowl win, flooded Philadelphia on Thursday morning ahead of the championship parade in what’s expected to be a day for the ages in the City of Brotherly Love.
  The 4.8-mile parade is set to start at 11 a.m. ET, but fans in full Eagles regalia began gathering hours earlier as the sun came up.
  Tim Norton, 29, said he arrived at about 6:45 a.m. Given the crowds, CNN as
  
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• Video shows man clinging onto hood of car as it drives down busy street

  08-02-2018 16:20
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A witness recorded a man and woman arguing before she got behind the wheel of a car and he clung to the hood.
  Cell phone footage shows the man in red pants holding onto the hood of a dark-colored Chevy Impala as it cruises down a Memphis street.
  Bryan Pittman told WREG he shot the video Tuesday afternoon.
  "Never seen anybody hold onto a car like that in my life, but he was down for the ride. You can tell it wasn't his first rodeo," said Pittman. "Never seen anybody ho
  
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• Mom of girl with facial deformity fights Twitter troll who used her daughter’s picture

  08-02-2018 16:15
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  Natalie Weaver knows there aren’t many little girls like her daughter Sophia.
  The nine-year-old has been through enough surgeries to last several lifetimes. Though she can’t talk, she uses her eyes and makes little sounds to communicate with her family. Weaver says that although her conditions sometimes cause her pain, Sophia is a happy, strong little girl.
  And yet, every day people tell Weaver that Sophia should die. Or, even worse, that she should never have been born.
  
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• 78-Year-Old Manchester Man Reported Missing Found OK in Pennsylvania

  08-02-2018 15:57
  
  A 78-year-old Manchester man who was reported missing has been found in Pennsylvania and he is OK, according to police.Photo Credit: Manchester Police
  
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• Two Leaders of Credit Card Fraud Scheme Get Prison Time

  08-02-2018 15:47
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The ringleaders of a credit card fraud scheme that made almost $180,000 in fraudulent purchases at stores in multiple states have been sentenced to prison.
  The U.S. attorney for Connecticut says the group’s leader, 31-year-old Mei Bao Lu, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months behind bars. His second-in-command, 31-year-old Yang-Shi Lin was sentenced to a year in prison. Both men are from New York City.
  Prosecutors say they distributed 120 counterfeit credit car
  
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• Connecticut Among 16 States Seeing Increased Obamacare Enrollment

  08-02-2018 15:44
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Call it the political equivalent of a death-defying escape: former President Barack Obama’s health care law pulled in nearly 11.8 million customers for 2018, despite the Republican campaign to erase it from the books.
  An Associated Press count found that nationwide enrollment was about 3 percent lower than last year. California, with more than 1.5 million sign-ups, was the last state to report, announcing its numbers on Wednesday.
  Sixteen states increased their enro
  
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• Man Accused Of Ransacking Elderly Woman’s Home

  08-02-2018 15:36
  TORRINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man accused of ransacking an elderly woman’s home is being held on $250,000 bond.
  The Republican-American reports that 29-year-old Michael Ferratto, of Watertown, appeared in court in Torrington on Tuesday on charges of first-degree larceny and home invasion.
  Police say Ferratto and another man broke into the woman’s home in the New Preston section of Washington in August. Investigators say they disabled her phones before they we
  
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• Malloy Gets Mixed Reviews For Anti-Trump Speech

  08-02-2018 15:36
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Legislative Democrats are cheering Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s final State of the State address as a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s policies, while Republicans say the speech ignored Connecticut’s continuing fiscal woes.
  Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano called Wednesday’s address a “political speech.” He says Connecticut residents would rather hear Malloy discuss how the state budget remains in deficit and how “we&rsq
  
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• Naked passenger forces turnaround of Alaska Airlines flight

  08-02-2018 15:21
  ANCHORAGE, AK (Fox News) — An Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Seattle was forced to make a U-turn Wednesday due to a disruptive naked passenger, officials said.
  The naked passenger reportedly locked himself in the plane’s restroom, took off all his clothes and refused to comply with the flight’s crew instructions.
  “Alaska Airlines flight 146 from Anchorage to Seattle returned to Anchorage due to a passenger not following flight attendant’s instructions. Whi
  
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• Man Charged in 2016 and 2017 Robberies at Groton Stop & Shop

  08-02-2018 15:16
  
  Police have arrested a Rhode Island man who is accused of robbing a Stop & Shop in Groton in December 2016 and again in September 2017.Photo Credit: Groton PoliceThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• WorkinCT: It’s Not Your Average Workspace at Basement Systems

  08-02-2018 15:04
  A computer and a telephone may be standard order at most office jobs, but that’s where standard ends at Basement Systems in Seymour. It’s a workspace that looks more like Disneyworld than an office. Each part of the building is different than the next.
  “We like to have fun, and just be different, and just have an interesting, exciting, fun place for our employees to come to work in every day. I think it gives us a competitive advantage in hiring the best people, and we have do
  
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• Trump numbers on the rise with help from strong economy and tax reform

  08-02-2018 14:58
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  WASHINGTON DC — Bolstered by the strong economy and quickly shifting numbers on tax reform, President Donald Trump’s approval rating hit 40% in a new Quinnipiac poll on Wednesday, his best score in this survey in seven months.
  A slim majority of voters, 51%, say they approve of how Trump is handling the economy, his highest mark on this question since his inauguration. Seven in 10 American voters, 70%, say the US economy is excellent or good — the best mark on
  
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• USA Today: Gay Olympic athlete turns down Pence meeting

  08-02-2018 14:46
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  PYEONGCHANG — US Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon turned down a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence after criticizing him for his stance on gay rights, USA Today reported Wednesday.
  After reading a January 17 interview in which Rippon criticized Pence, the vice president’s staff asked the US Olympic Committee to set up a conversation that same day between the athlete and the politician, which Rippon ultimately declined, USA Today’s Christine Brennan re
  
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• WATCH: Mother walks out after son’s college decision

  08-02-2018 14:32
  Pensacola (Florida) Escambia wide receiver Jacob Copeland’s mother didn’t seem all that thrilled with his college decision.
  Jacob Copeland's mother — in an Alabama sweater and Tennessee hat — just got up and left after he announced he was going to Florida pic.twitter.com/tOZHnZeamv
  — Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 7, 2018Copeland was surrounded on national signing day Wednesday by several people, most of whom were either wearing Alabama gear or Tennessee gear.
  
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• Yard Goats Release Giveaway Schedule

  08-02-2018 14:14
  
  Baseball returns in April and the Hartford Yard Goats have released the schedule of promotional items the team will give away this season.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Adjunct Professor Suspended For Using Racial Slur In Class

  08-02-2018 13:43
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – Southern Connecticut State University officials have suspended a white adjunct faculty member for allegedly using a racial slur in class.
  Public Health instructor Eric Triffin tells the New Haven Register he was suspended with pay for using the word while singing along to a rap song Tuesday. Triffin says he regularly starts classes with dancing and music.
  A black student confronted Triffin on his use of the word during class, and video of his reaction has c
  
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• 2 East Hartford Stores Damaged By Fire

  08-02-2018 12:32
  
  Fire broke out in two stores on Main Street in East Hartford late Wednesday night.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• SCSU adjunct suspended for using racial slur during class

  08-02-2018 12:11
  NEW HAVEN — Southern Connecticut State University officials have suspended a white adjunct faculty member for allegedly using a racial slur in class.
  Public Health instructor Eric Triffin tells the New Haven Register he was suspended with pay for using the word while singing along to a rap song Tuesday. Triffin says he regularly starts classes with dancing and music.
  A black student confronted Triffin on his use of the word during class, and video of his reaction has circulated online. The
  
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• A rowdy boy almost made her quit teaching. Then he became her son

  08-02-2018 11:09
  BATON ROUGE, LA — Fourth-grader Jerome Robinson was the bane of his young teacher’s career.
  “At certain points, his behavior got so bad,” Chelsea Haley said, “I thought, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I can’t be a teacher.'”
  Haley joined Teach for America to make a difference in a low-income school. She did not expect to encounter a tough boy like Jerome. She definitely did not plan on adopting him and his little brother.
  “I never thought I&
  
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