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• Man Charged with Operating Drug Factory in South Windsor

  13-03-2018 21:35
  
  Police have arrested a man after seizing more than 1,500 packages of edible marijuana gummies during a drug investigation that led to South Windsor.Photo Credit: Manchester Police Department
  
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• 5 Recipes For Awesome St. Patrick’s Day Drinks

  13-03-2018 21:10
  Get ready to toast to Ireland’s most beloved saint this St. Patrick’s Day with these five delicious drink recipes. With a little effort, these boozy beverages will turn any St. Patty’s Day into a celebration that even St. Patrick himself would raise a glass to. So skip the crowds, long lines and Uber surcharges this year by opting to host your own Irish shenanigan amongst friends and one tipsy leprechaun.
  Boozy Shamrock Shake
  Ingredients4 cups Vanilla Ice Cream
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• 5 Ways To Take Your St. Patrick’s Day Celebration To The Next Level

  13-03-2018 21:05
  St. Patrick’s Day celebrations date back as far as the 17th century, with traditions that have become widely recognizable on a global scale. The tradition of drinking became widely popular on this holiday back when St. Patrick’s Day was made an official Christian day of feasting, and all restrictions from Lent become temporarily lifted. Even though we all love a good Guinness, that’s not the only way to celebrate this special day. These five unique activities will make Mar
  
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• Elon Musk On First Mars Explorers: ‘Good Chance You’ll Die’

  13-03-2018 20:58
  CBS Local — SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk had some interesting comments about the future of space travel while speaking at an international film and innovation festival in Texas. While the tech mogul says humans must branch out into space, Musk admits the planet’s first travelers to Mars may not make it back alive.
  Speaking at the SXSW Conference in Austin, the pioneer of privately-funded space travel explained that the first missions to Mars will not be “an esc
  
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• Woman Who Gouged Out Her Own Eyes: ‘I Thought I Was Sacrificing Myself For The World’

  13-03-2018 18:49
  CBS Local — The 20-year-old woman who tore out her own eyes in a drug-induced frenzy has finally returned home and is telling reporters what led her to that horrific day.
  Kaylee Muthart of Anderson, South Carolina was released from the hospital on March 1 after recovering from the self-inflicted injuries she suffered outside a local church. The young woman’s mother, Katy Tompkins, says her daughter was battling meth addiction for six months before taking the dose that trigg
  
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• E-Cigarettes Exposing Teens To Cancer-Causing Toxins, Report Says

  13-03-2018 18:17
  CBS Local — A new report is shedding more light on what dangerous chemicals are inside e-cigarettes. According to scientists in California, vaping is exposing teens to “potentially cancer-causing chemicals also found in tobacco cigarettes.”
  A study done by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has revealed that teens using e-cigarettes are inhaling at least eight different toxic compounds into their bodies while vaping. “Teenagers need t
  
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• Parts of State Get Slammed by Nor'easter

  13-03-2018 17:50
  
  Snow is falling across the state as Connecticut gets hit with the third nor'easter in 11 days and hundreds of school districts are closed Tuesday.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.comThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• PHOTOS: NBC CT Crews Covering the March 13 Nor'easter

  13-03-2018 17:48
  
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• Snow Totals in Your Town for March 13 Nor'easter

  13-03-2018 17:42
  
  These are the latest snow totals we have from your town.
  
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• Power Out for Nearly 4,000 as 3rd Nor’easter Hits State

  13-03-2018 16:52
  
  Power is out for nearly 4,000 homes and businesses as the third nor’easter hits Connecticut in a week and a half.Photo Credit: Sandy
  
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• Two Connecticut-Namesake Submarines Train in Arctic Circle

  13-03-2018 16:47
  
  Two U.S. fast-attack submarines that have the Nutmeg State to thank for their names are working together near the top of the world on Saturday.Photo Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Lee/DOD
  
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• Plainville Family Didn’t Know Trip Was Canceled Until Calling

  13-03-2018 16:14
  
  A Plainville man said next time he is going to book directly with the airline after finding out a reservation he made with a third-party website was canceled.
  
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• Storm Leads to Flight Cancellations at Bradley Airport

  13-03-2018 16:00
  
  Tuesday's nor'easter is causing major problems for travelers in and out of Bradley International Airport.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Police ID Man Found Dead at Naugatuck State Forest in Oxford

  13-03-2018 15:31
  
  The person found dead in Oxford Monday afternoon was a 64-year-old Southbury man and police said there is no criminal aspect to the death.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Man Accused of Lewd Act in Car in Vernon

  13-03-2018 15:00
  
  Police have arrested a man who was accused of masturbating in a car in a plaza in Vernon Monday afternoon.Photo Credit: Vernon Police
  
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• Spring Training Report: Arrieta Finally Signs, MLB Signs Broadcast Deal With Facebook

  13-03-2018 14:47
  Ryan Mayer
  The spring training season has reached the midway point, but that hasn’t stopped the free agent signings. After a long, cold winter for some of MLB’s top players on the market, a couple of veterans got deals done last week to join their teams before Opening Day. While some players got new deals, the league announced a deal of its own, bringing in a new broadcast partner. The headlines weren’t all rosy last week, as the season’s first suspension for PEDs was ann
  
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• Bubba Watson to Return to Travelers Championship

  13-03-2018 13:40
  
  Bubba Watson, the two-time Masters champion, will be back in Connecticut this summer to play the Travelers Championship.Photo Credit: Getty ImagesThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• The Latest Forecast

  13-03-2018 13:11
  The latest forecast from the WBZ-TV Weather Team.
  
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• Macy’s Warehouse Employee Stole Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Perfume: Police

  13-03-2018 12:56
  
  An employee of a Macy’s warehouse in South Windsor is accused of stealing thousands of dollars of fragrance from the Macy’s Logistics warehouse on Governor’s Highway.Photo Credit: South Windsor Police
  
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• State Offices, Judicial Branch Closed

  13-03-2018 12:03
  
  Connecticut state offices will be closed for the first shift on Tuesday as the state deals with the third nor’easter in 11 days and all judicial branch offices will be closed for the day.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Man Arrested for Shooting Victim at New London Convenience Store

  13-03-2018 11:48
  
  A man who allegedly shot a customer at a convenience store in New London early Monday morning was arrested later in the day, police told NBC Connecticut.Photo Credit: New London Police
  
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• Tolland prepares for another round of snow

  13-03-2018 05:07
  TOLLAND – It’s almost starting to sound like a broken record.
  The state is getting ready for yet another snow storm—the third one in two weeks.
  Department of Transportation workers are pretreating roads. Over 600 snow plows will be on the roads during the storm and crews will be repairing power lines and clearing broken trees.
  The grocery stores are also running its usual drills.
  “It’s New England. People seem pretty sane. There’s bread, there’s milk. P
  
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• Students in Connecticut ready for school walkouts

  13-03-2018 04:51
  It's been nearly a month since Nikolas Cruz stormed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an AR-15-style rifle and killed 17 students and faculty members.
  FOX61  sat down with students from Guilford, East Hartford and Farmington High Schools to get their thoughts on the Wednesday's walkout, school safety and the president's plan to arm teachers.
  What is it?
  The nationwide protest is both a memorial and protest action. Students and teachers across the United States w
  
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• ‘I was crying’: Hair product blamed for open sores, bald spots

  13-03-2018 04:18
  LAS VEGAS – Scalp sores, breakage and hair falling out in chunks. It’s a hair care nightmare and women are blaming it on the Monat hair care product line, KTNV reports.
  “I took a picture of my hair, compared it to a picture of before I started Monat, and my eyes just filled up with tears. It was so thin and it was stringy and I was just sick,” said Erin Ostby, a military spouse who used and sold Monat products.
  Women like Ostby say they watched their hopes for
  
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• Woman sings her heart out on empty train, only to find she’s not alone

  13-03-2018 04:17
  Please enjoy this fantastic video of my friend Stevie. It's one of my favorite things ever pic.twitter.com/gTDaioUtOR
  — Abam (@AdamBroud) March 12, 2018When you find yourself all alone in a public place, do you ever get the urge to do something outrageous?
  Well, that’s exactly what one woman, identified as “Stevie” on Twitter, did when she stepped into a seemingly-empty subway car.
  She decided to sing her heart out, making a video presumably for her friends.
  Only after si
  
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• Five hurt after air duct crashes down on Ohio water park pool

  13-03-2018 04:17
  SANDUSKY, Ohio – Several people were hurt when an air duct broke free and fell from the ceiling of Ohio's indoor Kalahari Waterpark Resort Monday, according to WJW.
  Erie County Sheriff Paul Sigsworth said five people had minor injuries in the incident. Two people were taken to the hospital, and another three refused treatment.
  The ducts, which are about three feet in diameter, are part of the air conditioning system at the Sandusky park, said Sigsworth.
  The facility has been closed for re
  
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• Video shows ‘gumball bandit’ struggling to steal animal shelter’s candy machine

  13-03-2018 04:16
  SACRAMENTO -- A Northern California animal shelter says a "gumball bandit" broke in and stole their fundraising gumball machine, according to KTXL.
  Sacramento's Front Street Animal Shelter posted a video of the break-in Friday. It shows the suspect crawling through a broken pane in a glass door then immediately grabbing the machine.
  As he's trying to force the machine through the broken pane, gumballs spill all over the floor inside and the ground outside. With little luck getting the machine t
  
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• Bride arrested for DUI on way to her wedding

  13-03-2018 04:16
  MARANA, Ariz. – An Arizona bride was arrested while driving to her wedding – allegedly while impaired – Monday morning, and naturally there’s a photo, according to KTVK.
  Sgt. Chriswell Scott of the Marana Police Department tweeted a picture of Amber Young’s arrest. She was wearing her wedding dress, hands cuffed behind her back.
  According to Scott, Young was released after “submitting to a blood draw.”
  A driver was arrested for DUI this AM while driving
  
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• Family reunited with stolen dog after stranger sends Facebook message saying his parents took her

  13-03-2018 04:15
  MOLINE, Ill. – After months of searching, an Illinois family has their missing Siberian husky Feather back, all thanks to a stranger's Facebook message.
  "It's not real. I'm still kind of in shock that she's here," Briana Martin told WQAD.
  Briana says Feather was stolen right out of her backyard in September of last year.
  "When he went out 30 minutes later to check on her, she was gone," says Briana.
  After searching nonstop, the family had almost given up on ever seeing her again
  
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• Enfield High Awarded NBC's $10K 'Rise' Grant

  13-03-2018 04:06
  
  Enfield High School is one of dozens of schools to be awarded grant money in connection with the new NBC show, "Rise."Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Silver Alert Issued for 14-Year-Old From Middletown

  13-03-2018 03:47
  
  A silver alert has been issued for a 14-year-old boy from Middletown on Monday.Photo Credit: Middletown Police
  
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• Just how bad was Tom Brady’s cut to his hand? Pretty bad

  13-03-2018 03:23
  FOXBOROUGH —  If you ever wondered how bad Tom Brady’s injury to his hand was prior to the AFC Championship game against the Jacksonville Jaguars?
  Look no more.
  In the latest episode of “Tom vs. Time”, a scene of Brady receiving treatment on his hand was revealed.
  The injury to his hand was so bad, that Brady himself thought his season was over.
  “This is it. This is the way the season ends,” Brady said.
  “I’m looking down at my thumb as it&rsq
  
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• UConn earns top seed, Quinnipiac to play in Connecticut for NCAA Women’s Tournament

  13-03-2018 03:15
  NEW YORK  — UConn is back in a familiar place — the No. 1 overall seed in the women's basketball NCAA Tournament.
  Joining the Huskies as top seeds are Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State.
  The Huskies enter as the lone unbeaten team and will be vying for their 12th national championship. It's the ninth time that UConn has entered the NCAAs undefeated, including last year when the Huskies went in as the overwhelming favorite before their 111-game winning streak ended wit
  
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• O.J. Simpson described ‘blood and stuff’ in 2006 hypothetical murder TV confession

  13-03-2018 02:44
  It took 12 years for the tapes to surface, but television audiences were able to finally hear what Fox billed as O.J. Simpson’s “shocking hypothetical account” of the 1994 murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.
  On Sunday, the network aired the two-hour “O.J. Simpson: The Lost Confession?,” in which the former NFL running back outlines how he might have killed Goldman and the mother of his two children. Simpson was acquitted of the murde
  
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• Dog waits months outside hospital for dead owner to return

  13-03-2018 02:41
  BRAZIL —  A dog has been camping outside a hospital for months in hopes of reuniting with his owner who rushed to the hospital.
  What the dog doesn’t know, is that his owner was fatally stabbed, according to Fox News.
  The dog’s owner, a 59-year-old homeless man, was rushed to the hospital after being stabbed in a local park a few months ago.
  Nearby resident Cristine Sardella, who was at the hospital last month, took pictures of the dog and posted them to Facebook, saying th
  
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• House Approves McDonald for Chief Justice, Senate to Vote

  13-03-2018 02:38
  
  The Connecticut State House of Representatives narrowly approved current Associate Justice Andrew McDonald’s elevation to chief justice, with one Republican acting as the de facto deciding vote.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Judge decides grandson will get Charles Manson’s body

  13-03-2018 01:42
  A court has decided that Charles Manson’s body, after months sitting on ice, will go to Jason Freeman — who says he is Manson’s grandson.
  Almost four months after Manson died at a hospital in Bakersfield, California, Kern County Superior Court Commissioner Alisa Knight chose among three competing claims — by Freeman, Michael Brunner, who says he’s the cult leader’s son, and Michael Channels, a Manson friend and memorabilia collector who says he has the only va
  
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• Not everyone is tired of the snow

  13-03-2018 01:31
  NEW HAVEN --  Connecticut's schools have had multiple days off over the past two weeks, but none are in danger of bumping up against the state's June 30 deadline to complete the school year.
  "We are in really good shape in West Haven," said West Haven Superintendent of Schools, Neil Cavallaro.
  The Superintendent said, if West Haven requires a snow day Tuesday, that would mark the sixth of this winter.
  "That will take us to Friday, June 15," said Cavallaro, in his 10th year running the city
  
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• Hillary Clinton: US does ‘not deserve’ Trump

  13-03-2018 01:04
  Hillary Clinton told a receptive audience over the weekend in India that while she thought President Donald Trump played to some of Americans’ worst fears, he does not reflect the country as a whole.
  “No, we did not deserve that,” Clinton said when asked if the US “deserves” Trump as its leader.
  Clinton called the 2016 presidential race the “first reality TV campaign,” and said Trump, as a bombastic “reality TV candidate,” was able
  
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• Parents overdosing on heroin, 3 children found in SUV sitting in middle of road, police say

  13-03-2018 00:25
  CARROLL COUNTY, Ind. – Indiana police arrested two parents Friday night after they allegedly overdosed on heroin with their three young children in their SUV, according to WXIN.
  A passing motorist called police to report the 2003 Mercury Mountaineer SUV sitting in the middle of a Carroll County. The caller told the dispatch officer the two adults inside the vehicle weren't responding.
  “They will do almost anything to get that fix whether or not they place another person or a ch
  
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• Mom arrested after heartbreaking video shows baby lying in middle of road

  13-03-2018 00:23
  UTICA, N.Y. – Strangers came to the aid of a 9-month-old child found lying in the middle of an upstate New York road Friday, according to police.
  Utica police began investigating when video of the baby, lying facedown on the asphalt crying, surfaced on Facebook after good Samaritans found the child.
  One man picks up the infant, wearing only a onesie, as another calls 911. Just before the video ends, a woman claiming to be the mother can be heard saying, “That’s my baby, that&r
  
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• Alabama incensed over ‘horrific’ smell of New York City poo

  13-03-2018 00:23
  New York’s poo problem has become Alabama’s poo problem, and that stinks for both of them. New York City, which produces about 1,200 tons of sewage daily, has been shipping some of it down to landfills around Birmingham that are producing a bit of a smell, the Guardian reports.
  “On a hot day, the odor and flies are horrific,” says Charles Nix, the mayor of a nearby town that’s close to a landfill with Yankee waste. “It’s better in winter time b
  
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• Human remains found behind home of Disney World employee, missing since 2015

  13-03-2018 00:22
  LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Investigators unearthed more human remains in the backyard of a Florida home belonging to a man who disappeared three years ago.
  The home belongs to Disney World worker Michael Shaver, 35, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
  Authorities made the initial grisly find underneath a fire pit on Friday.
  "It was just a shoddy concrete job, poured around this fire pit, so we began focusing our efforts there, and I can tell you we found what appears to be a bone that is consiste
  
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