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• State Lawmakers Mull Pot Legalization Once Again

  15-02-2018 23:07
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Some state lawmakers want to know how recreational marijuana might be regulated if Connecticut decides to someday legalize thedrug.
  The General Assembly’s General Law Committee voted Thursday to raise the concept, the first step toward possible legislation.
  Democratic Rep. Michael D’Agostino of Hamden says it’s unclear whether the General Assembly might legalize the recreational use of marijuana but agreed itmakes sense for legislators to learn more
  
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• Stay For Farmington Couple Facing Deportation

  15-02-2018 22:19
  (Hartford, Conn./WTIC Radio) – The Farmington couple that was to be deported back to their native China Friday has received a stay.
  Governor Dannel Malloy a short time ago said they received formal notice from federal authorities that Tony Huang and Kris Li won’t be sent back while the process plays out.
  They have two American born children.
  The couple has been in the country illegally for 20 years and run a nail salon in Simsbury.
  Their attorney had expressed concern today because K
  
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• ‘This Is Us’ Star Chrissy Metz Doing Book Reading in Connecticut

  15-02-2018 21:59
  
  Chrissy Metz, who stars as Kate in the NBC show “This is Us,” is coming to Connecticut for a book signing and more tickets are available after the event was moved to a new venue.Photo Credit: Getty Images for Guild of Music
  
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• Can Young Rebound From Recent Slump?

  15-02-2018 21:25
  By Steve Silverman
  Is rebound coming for Trae Young after hitting freshman wall?
  Trae Young was the story of the college basketball world in the first half of the season. The freshman guard had lifted the Oklahoma program and was carrying it on his back.
  Young was the leading scorer and assist man in the nation, and the Sooners were winning basketball games. Lon Kruger had something positive going on his watch in Norman.
  Young looked like sure top-10 draft pick, and he probably remains in that p
  
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• Housekeeper Pleads Guilty In Bristol Home Theft

  15-02-2018 21:21
  BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) – A woman hired to clean a Connecticut home has pleaded guilty to stealing and pawning items worth about $13,000.
  Authorities say a Bristol homeowner confronted 51-year-old Laura Cournoyer in late 2016 about missing items.
  He initially decided not to press charges but contacted police months later when he noticed that valuable jewelry had gonemissing.
  The Bristol Press reported Wednesday that Cournoyer pleaded guilty to second-degree larceny.
  Cournoyer is free on bond a
  
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• Dozens Of Dog Food Brands Recalled After Euthanasia Drug Found

  15-02-2018 21:11
  CBS Local — After an investigation reportedly uncovered a drug used for euthanizing animals inside various brands of dog food, a massive recall has been issued by multiple companies.
  The J.M. Smucker Company issued a voluntary recall of several types of their “Gravy Train,” “Kibbles ‘N Bits,” and “Skippy” wet dog food products. In a memo to retailers, obtained by TruthAboutPetFood.com, J.M. Smucker said the move was being made “beca
  
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• Arrest Made After Elderly Woman Was Hit in CVS Parking Lot in Canton

  15-02-2018 21:00
  
  Police have arrested a 53-year-old Canton man who is accused of hitting an elderly woman in the parking lot of a CVS in Canton on Jan. 19 and leaving the scene.Photo Credit: Canton Police
  
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• Police: Man Crashed While High On PCP, Blamed Dead Passenger

  15-02-2018 20:17
  STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) – Police say a Connecticut man crashed his car while high on PCP and falsely claimed it was being driven by his passenger, who died in the wreck.
  The Stamford Advocate reports that 41-year-old Donell Alston, of Bridgeport, told investigators he was sleeping as the car careened off a road in Westport onDec. 21, 2016.
  Alston said 51-year-old Lisa Brown was driving at the time.
  She was partially thrown from the vehicle as it hit a culvert and flipped over.
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• Increasing Confidence for Weekend Snow

  15-02-2018 19:40
  
  Confidence continues to increase for accumulating snow for this weekend.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Inmate Gives Birth Inside Cell at Prison in Niantic

  15-02-2018 19:00
  
  A female inmate at York Correctional Institution in Niantic gave birth in her cell Tuesday morning and the state Department of Correction is conducting an internal investigation.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Grandmother Stops Another School Shooting Day Before Florida Massacre

  15-02-2018 18:51
  CBS Local — One day before 17 people were killed in a Florida school shooting, a grandmother helped to stop another massacre in Washington state.
  According to police in Everett, Washington, the grandmother of Joshua Alexander O’Connor called 911 after finding disturbing journal entries that described how the 18-year-old was planning to attack his high school.
  “Officers were also told the grandson had a rifle stored in a guitar case. As officers reviewed copies of the journal, t
  
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• WWE WrestleMania Card Rumors And PPV Changes

  15-02-2018 18:34
  By Chuck Carroll
  With WrestleMania season in full swing, there is no shortage of news and rumors coming out of WWE. Major questions surround the main event of the company’s biggest pay-per-view of the year.
  From the mainstream media standpoint, WWE stands to gain an inordinate amount of coverage from Ronda Rousey‘s appearance on the show. In fact, although she is not on the card, she will be essentially headlining The Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on February 25, when she signs he
  
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• Chemicals Found In Non-Stick Pans Linked To Weight Gain, Report Says

  15-02-2018 18:23
  CBS Local — Non-stick cookware was created to make cooking easier, but a new study claims that chemicals in your pots and pans may also be making some people fatter.
  According to a report in PLOS Medicine, perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are reportedly found in non-stick cookware, stain-resistant carpeting, and some fast food wrappers. Scientists say that the chemicals — which were already suspected of causing high cholesterol and possibly cancer — have been linked
  
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• Students Give Gifts for Newborns on Valentine’s Day

  15-02-2018 18:19
  
  On Wednesday a group of kindergartners from Middletown showed the true meaning of Valentine’s Day by sharing gifts of love with new babies in Hartford.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Parents Sue Over Racial Quotas At Magnet Schools

  15-02-2018 18:19
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  HARTFORD, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – Seven black and Hispanic families have filed a civil rights lawsuit against Connecticut and Hartford officials challenging race-based student quotas at city magnet schools.
  The families filed the lawsuit in federal court Thursday saying hundreds of student seats in the 21 magnet schools are unfilled because too few white children are enrolled. The schools are limited to 75 percent minority student enrollment under a landmark scho
  
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• Access Health CT Director On The Move

  15-02-2018 18:14
  (Hartford, Conn./WTIC Radio) – The man who has headed the state’s health insurance exchange has announced he is stepping down.
  A statement from Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman says Jim Wadleigh will leave Access Health CT in April.
  Wadleigh has been executive director of the exchange for over three years and has spent six years at Access Health CT.
  A successor has not yet been named.
  The Access Health CT resources committee will meet to discuss steps toward finding Wadleigh’s r
  
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• Southwest To Launch Non-Stop Flight From Bradley To St. Louis

  15-02-2018 17:30
  WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WTIC Radio) – Southwest Airlines is launching daily non-stop service from Bradley International Airport to St. Louis this summer, the Connecticut Airport Authority announced Thursday.
  The service will commence August 7. The daily departure from Windsor Locks is scheduled for 11:10 a.m., with an arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport at 12:45 p.m. local time. The inbound flight is scheduled to leave St. Louis at 4:25 p.m. and arrive at Bradley at 7:50 p.m.
  
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• Flags Lowered in Honor of Florida Shooting Victims

  15-02-2018 17:08
  
  Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has ordered that flags be lowered in honor of the 17 people killed in a school shooting in Florida Wednesday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Win Tickets To The Connecticut Flower & Garden Show 2018

  15-02-2018 17:00
  Enter for the chance to win a 4-pack of tickets to the Connecticut Flower & Garden Show 2018 at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, February 22-25, 2018.
  
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• Minor Quake Rattles New England

  15-02-2018 16:55
  EAST KINGSTON, N.H. (AP) – A minor earthquake has shaken New England.
  The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude 2.7 quake centered on East Kingston, New Hampshire struck at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday at a depth of 6.3kilometers.
  John Ebel, a senior research scientist at Boston College’s Weston Observatory, says people near the epicenter would probably have heard a loud boom, whilepeople farther away would hear a rumbling and some ground shaking, maybe window rattling.
  But, he says,
  
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• Where Things Stand Heading Into NBA All-Star Weekend

  15-02-2018 16:37
  Ryan Mayer
  The landmarks in the NBA season are rapidly coming and going. The trade deadline saw a flurry of action that completely remade one contender (the Cavs) and saw one fringe playoff team try to light a spark (Pistons), but little else. Now, the teams and players get the next week off for the All-Star break as the top players descend upon Los Angeles for the All-Star festivities. Though we’re well past the halfway point of the season, really closer to the 3/4 mark for some teams, le
  
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• Correction Department Investigate Prison Cell Birth

  15-02-2018 16:11
  (Niantic, Conn./WTIC Radio) – State officials are looking into the birth of a child to a mother who is incarcerated at the York Correctional Institution for women.
  The state Department of Correction says the baby was born on Tuesday.
  Correction officials say the circumstances surrounding the birth in a cell are still under investigation.
  They also say that two UConn Health correctional employees have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
  Earlier this month the Correction
  
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• State, U.S. Flags Lowered To Honor Florida School Shooting Victims

  15-02-2018 15:39
  (Hartford, Conn./WTIC Radio) – Flags in Connecticut have been ordered lowered to half-staff in honor of the victims of Wednesday’s high school shooting in Florida.
  Governor Dannel Malloy, in accordance with a presidential proclamation, has directed flags to be lowered in remembrance of the 17 who were killed at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,Florida.
  Beginning immediately, U.S. and state flags are to be lowered, Malloy said.
  The order remains in effect through sunset
  
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• Police Say Student, Teacher’s Aide Sold Pot Brownies

  15-02-2018 15:14
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police say a student and a teacher’s aide were caught selling brownies laced with marijuana at a Connecticut school.
  WFSB-TV reports that police and medics were called to Global Communications Academy after 17 students were believed to have eaten the brownies Wednesday.
  A teacher called police after seeing the brownies being sold and noticing the scent of marijuana.
  The 17 students believed to have eaten the brownies were evaluated by medics but none
  
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• Officials: Police Officer Accepted Pay Without Working

  15-02-2018 14:45
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (WTIC and AP) – Arrest records show a Bridgeport police lieutenant charged with stealing money from the department had a pattern of working minutes of the time he was being paid for before returning home.
  The Connecticut Post reports investigators found at least 11 instances last year where 64-year-old Lt. Stephen Shuck was at home when he was supposed to be at work. An arrest affidavit states Shuck’s actions equated to more than a $2,0 loss to the city.
  Shuck was a
  
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• 17 Dead in Florida School Massacre

  15-02-2018 12:15
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Just before the shooting broke out, some students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School thought they were having another fire drill.
  Such an exercise had forced them to leave their classrooms hours earlier. So when the alarm went off Wednesday afternoon shortly before they were to be dismissed, they once again filed out into the hallways.
  That’s when police say 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, equipped with a gas mask, smoke grenades and multiple magazines of ammunit
  
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• This Morning With Ray Dunaway February 15, 2018

  15-02-2018 12:00
  Here’s what’s coming up this morning with Ray Dunaway.
  6:50- Stephen Estes of Bully Breed Training, a company designed to train law enforcement and qualified civilians in basic and advanced firearms techniques, looks at the most recent school shooting in the Florida. What can we do to prepare people who find themselves in that type of situation? How do first responders test a situation like that?
  7:20- Marc Scribner is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Inst
  
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• Florida school shooting is now among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history

  15-02-2018 08:46
  Mass shootings in America are getting deadlier.
  Of the 30 deadliest shootings in the US dating back to 1949, 19 have occurred in the last 10 years, and the latest happened this week.
  Below is a list of the 10 deadliest single-day mass shootings in modern US history. If the shooter was killed or died by suicide during the incident, that death is not included in the total.
  1. The Harvest Music Festival: 58 killed
  October 1, 2017 – A gunman, identified as 64-year-old Steph
  
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• 19-year-old cancer survivor killed in shooting

  15-02-2018 05:50
  BELLEVILLE, IL (KMOV) — “This guy was just a genuinely well-rounded person. I was just really glad to have met him,” said Matthew Riewski.
  Riewski cherishes the time he spent with his friend, Cole Weirciszewski, a 19-year-old who loved ones said overcame cancer and even donated to help others through St. Baldrick’s.
  “Somebody who was just a real kind soul who would be there for you, even if nobody else would be there for you,” said Riewski.
  Weirciszewski was a
  
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• Yanks’ Judge on track for opening day after shoulder surgery

  15-02-2018 05:42
  TAMPA, Fla.  — Yankees slugger Aaron Judge took batting practice for the first time since left shoulder surgery and said he is on track to play on opening day.
  Judge hit a rookie record 52 home runs last year and was a unanimous pick for AL Rookie of the Year. He said the shoulder started to bother him around the All-Star break but he did not have any injections of painkiller. He refuses to attribute a lengthy slump to the injury.
  He is a centerpiece of the Baby Bombers’ batting
  
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• FOX61 travels to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria ‘s devastating aftermath 

  15-02-2018 05:37
  SAN JUAN -- FOX61’s Jeevan Vittal and photojournalist Tom Maroney traveled to Puerto Rico to meet with neighbors and follow a group of Connecticut volunteers who traveled to the Island to distribute tons of food, water and supplies to those in need.
  The all-volunteer group worked with the Lions Club of Puerto Rico along with several other non-profits around the state to raise money and collect critical items.
  An estimated 42 tons of supplies were shipped via ocean cargo container to the i
  
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• Thief finds missing man’s body in wall of abandoned motel

  15-02-2018 05:30
  GRIFFIN, Ga.  — The body of a missing man was found in an abandoned motel after someone breaking into the property stumbled upon it.
  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office as saying Wednesday that Timothy Johnson was last seen Dec. 6. Griffin Police recovered his car the next day. His body was found Sunday when the thief came across it at a former Howard Johnson motel.
  Capt. Dwayne Jones says investigators had searched the property three tim
  
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• Missing 4-year-old South Carolina girl rescued by police, suspect arrested

  15-02-2018 05:15
  RIVERSIDE, Ala. – A missing South Carolina 4-year-old has been found safe and her alleged abductor is in custody after he fled to Mississippi, according to WCIV.
  Heidi Renae Todd, who disappeared from Charleston on Tuesday evening, was rescued from a man’s car around 4 p.m. in an Alabama business parking lot.
  “We give the glory and our thanks that all prayers have been answered, and that Heidi Todd is safe in the hands of the FBI,” Charleston Mayor John Tecklen
  
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• Family who buried wrong man sues California county

  15-02-2018 05:09
  LOS ANGELES — Relatives who thought they had buried their loved one only to find out he was alive 11 days after his funeral are suing the California county responsible for what they say started as a mix-up but became a cover-up.
  Frank Kerrigan’s family filed the lawsuit Tuesday alleging negligence and concealment against Orange County.
  County spokeswoman Carrie Braun says she can’t comment on pending litigation but that the sheriff’s department is conducting an internal i
  
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• Student and Aide Bring Questionable Brownies to School in Hartford

  15-02-2018 05:06
  
  A paraprofessional and student at the Global Communications Academy in Hartford are being questioned after a teacher said a batch of brownies smelled a little odd on Wednesday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Questions still remain regarding alleged racial slurs used during a basketball game in Prospect

  15-02-2018 04:55
  PROSPECT --  A week after an emotional, physical, game between middle school boys basketball teams from Prospect and Naugatuck, it is still unclear whether racial slurs were used during the game.
  The Superintendent of Regional School District 16, said that in investigating alleged racial slurs by Prospect's Long River Middle School boys basketball players and some parents, they interviewed everyone possible.
  Superintendent Michael Yamin said those queried included "parents that were at the
  
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• Here’s what Michigan State University has done since Larry Nassar’s trial

  15-02-2018 04:05
  EAST LANSING — Weeks after the remarkable sentencing of longtime sexual abuser Larry Nassar, Michigan State University has made several changes in personnel, policy and procedure as it faces investigations into its role, if any, in the scandal.
  Nassar, the doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State, was sentenced to lengthy prison sentences and admitted to using his trusted position to sexually abuse young girls for more than two decades. Scores of them came forward and to
  
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• 'Consequence of Inaction': Connecticut Reacts to Florida Shooting

  15-02-2018 03:58
  
  The entire country, including Connecticut, was stunned when the news broke about a deadly school shooting in Florida.Photo Credit: C-SPAN
  
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• Brain-eating worm grows in Florida man’s eye

  15-02-2018 03:15
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  TAMPA, Fla. – It is like something out of a science-fiction movie — a brain-eating parasitic tapeworm living in your eye. Unfortunately for Sam Cordero, it wasn’t a movie and the race was on to surgically remove it from his eye, WFTS reports.
  Taenia Solium, more commonly called a pork tapeworm, passes to humans from consuming raw pork or through contact with fecal matter. Properly cooked pork, and good hygiene when handling food, kill the parasite.
  In
  
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• Todd Feinburg: Is Melania’s Family On The Way Out?

  15-02-2018 02:39
  The Mad Liberal joins us for a discussion about immigration policy… is Melania’s family on the way out? Plus, food stamps and the SNAP home delivery program, and Rep. Joe Aresimowicz talks the transportation authority recommendation.
   
  
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• Pfizer, Lilly Working on Opioid-Free Drug for Specific Chronic Pain

  15-02-2018 01:56
  
  Pfizer and Eli Lilly and Company are working on a non-opioid drug to treat chronic pain in patients with osteoarthritis and chronic low back pain.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• 'Misleading': Electric Bill Issues Catch the Eye of State Watchdog

  15-02-2018 01:43
  
  Third-party administrators are companies that act as a middleman for the state’s two electric utilities, United Illuminating and Eversource. The companies sell electricity at reduced or promotional rates...
  
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