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• New Britain Boy Scout troop hold breakfast fundraiser

  25-03-2018 23:20
  NEW BRITAIN – A local fundraiser is helping boys scout not only raise money but pick up some skills along the way.
  Boys scout troop 256 invited community members to an all you can eat pancake breakfast Sunday for $8.
  The money raised is expected to help the troop with summer camp expenses, uniforms, monthly camping expenses and more.  Treasurer for the troop Len Carlson says this is one of their big fundraisers they do each year. He says it also gives the boys an opportunity to be han
  
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• A day after March for Our Lives, Pope urges youth to speak out

  25-03-2018 23:13
  A day after hundreds of thousands of people protested gun violence at March for Our Lives events in the US and around the globe, Pope Francis called on the world’s youth to continue speaking out and standing up.
  “Dear young people, you have it in you to shout,” the Pope said in his Palm Sunday address at St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
  Palm Sunday — celebrated on the Sunday before Easter — is commemorated by Christians as the day Jesus entered Jerusalem in the wee
  
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• Santorum: Instead of calling for gun laws, kids should take CPR classes

  25-03-2018 23:00
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  CNN commentator and former Pennsylvania GOP Sen. Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested students protesting for gun control legislation would be better served by taking CPR classes and preparing for active shooter scenarios.
  “How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that,” Santorum said on CNN&rsquo
  
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• Gone extinct: Animatronic T-Rex bursts into flames

  25-03-2018 22:27
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  CANON CITY, Colo.   — The co-owner of a dinosaur-themed park in southern Colorado thinks an electrical malfunction caused a life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex to burst into flames.
  Zach Reynolds says the T-Rex at the Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience smoldered for about 10 minutes before it caught fire Thursday morning. Visitors watched as the inferno spread through the dinosaur, which appeared at times to be breathing flames.
  Reynolds joked, “We knew he had
  
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• 'Hero' Neighbor Helped Rescue Family From Fire: Officials

  25-03-2018 22:18
  
  A neighbor is being called a hero after helping to get residents out of a house fire in Danbury on Sunday morning.Photo Credit: Danbury Fire
  
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• Arkansas jail housing 200 roosters as cockfighting evidence

  25-03-2018 22:16
  De QUEEN, Ark.— A group of inmates is tending to 200 roosters at an Arkansas sheriff’s office pending their use as evidence against 137 people arrested at a cockfight.
  Sheriff Robert Gentry said the birds would be held at his office until a court decides what to do with them.
  The Texarkana Gazette reported several agencies raided a cockfight near De Queen March 17, tracking down an operation that moved every weekend. The sheriff said 34 people face felony counts of unlawful animal fi
  
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• Police Issue Warning After People Attacked By Hawks in Fairfield

  25-03-2018 22:12
  
  Police are warning people in a Fairfield neighborhood to be cautious after a series of attacks by hawks in the area.Photo Credit: NBC ConnecticutThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Beaten inmate sues state for keeping half of legal award

  25-03-2018 22:06
  HARTFORD  — A Connecticut inmate is fighting the state in federal court after officials were ordered to pay him $300,000 in a lawsuit over a beating he took from another prisoner, but gave him less than half the total after subtracting costs of his incarceration.
  Rashad Williams, serving a 30-year sentence for attempted murder and other crimes, says officials basically used a state law on recouping imprisonment costs from inmates to reduce the penalty for violating his civil rights. H
  
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• Police Investigate 'Suspicious' Death in East Haddam

  25-03-2018 19:11
  
  The State Police Eastern District Major Crime Squad is investigating a suspicious death at a home in East Haddam.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Father who lost son to a gunshot is part of Guilford “March For Our Lives”

  25-03-2018 18:55
  GUILFORD – The Guilford community gathered as part of the March For Our Lives movement on Saturday, showing up and walking to support stricter gun laws around the country.  One of the people speaking out was Michael Song, the father of 15-year-old Ethan Song who was shot and killed back in January.
  The investigation into Ethan’s death is still ongoing, preventing Michael from commenting about it. But he said that this fire that was alive inside of him will continue to burn until
  
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• Joseph diGenova not joining Trump’s legal team regarding the Mueller probe

  25-03-2018 17:33
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow announced Sunday that Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing will not join Trump’s legal team for the Russia probe.
  “The President is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the President’s Special Counsel legal team. However, those conflicts do not prevent them from assisting the President in other legal matters. The President looks forward to working with them,&rd
  
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• CT Inmate Fighting State For $300,000 Payout

  25-03-2018 16:26
  
  A Connecticut inmate is fighting the state in federal court after officials were ordered to pay him $300,000 in a lawsuit.
  
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• First direct flight from Australia to London touches down

  25-03-2018 15:22
   LONDON — The maiden flight of a new non-stop regular passenger service between Australia and Britain has touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport.The Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, operated by Qantas Airways, arrived Sunday in London just over 17 hours after setting off from the western Australian city of Perth.
  The new link with Perth — a 14,498-kilometer (9,009-mile) journey — is around three hours quicker than routes that involve stopovers in the Middle East to change
  
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• Fairfield Police warn of attacking hawks

  25-03-2018 14:18
  FAIRFIELD — Police are warning people in one neighborhood to be eagle-eyed as they walk around… and to report it if they happen to see a hawk.
  In a couple of Twitter posts Sunday morning, Fairfield police say that an Old Mill Road resident was ‘attacked’ by a hawk on about a week ago (on March 19th). They say that Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been investigating ‘numerous incidents&
  
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• Investigators search Cambridge Analytica’s London offices

  25-03-2018 13:46
  LONDON — Enforcement officers from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office early Saturday finished searching the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy company accused of manipulating Facebook data during the 2016 US election, an ICO spokesman told CNN.
  The raid comes four days after Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham announced plans to search the offices. A judge approved the ICO’s request for a search warrant Friday evening.
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• I downloaded 14 years of my Facebook data and here’s what happened

  25-03-2018 13:15
  Facebook has an impeccable memory.
  After downloading my stored data on the site — I’ve been a member since 2004 — I was presented with an enormous amount of personal details that have been collected about me over the years.
  It had the phone number of my late grandmother who never had a Facebook account, or even an email address. It preserved the conversations I had with an ex– someone with whom I thought I had deleted my digital ties. It even recalled times I was “p
  
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• Never-seen photos of Beatles’ early US concerts auctioned

  25-03-2018 12:41
  LONDON — Hundreds of previously unseen photographs of The Beatles’ first U.S. concerts have sold for 253,000 pounds ($358,000) at an auction in England.
  The photographer Mike Mitchell, who was 18 at the time, snapped the photos of the band’s performances at the Washington Coliseum and the Baltimore Civic Centre in 1964. He also took photos of the Fab Four at a pre-show press conference and their arrival at Union Station.
  A total of some 400 negatives with copyright were sold a
  
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• While others marched for their lives, these folks marched for their gun rights

  25-03-2018 11:59
  WASHINGTON — While many people marched in support of gun control Saturday at the March for Our Lives demonstrations in Washington and across the country, there were some groups who also gathered at those same marches in support of the Second Amendment.
  ‘I came to open dialogue’
  In Washington, Eric Ciabottonia, 19, and John Bolduc, 18, traveled with a group of students from Pennsylvania State University to march for gun rights. The freshman engineering majors said the
  
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• Blustery and chilly today; big warm-up this week!

  25-03-2018 11:55
  A back door cold front that touch off a few flurries this morning has shifted off to our south, allowing for a blustery, chilly Sunday afternoon.  High pressure from eastern Canada will drift over the area for the next couple of day that will deliver plenty of sunshine and a warming trend for this last full week of March.
  FINALLY some signs of spring is in the 7 day forecast! Temperatures will slowly start to warm up this week with highs in the 50s Tuesday and Wednesday then 60s 
  
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• Newtown’s ‘Team 26’ cycles to Hartford for ‘March for Our Lives’ rally

  25-03-2018 05:12
  HARTFORD-- About 30 cyclists from Newtown,traveled from their hometown to the state capitol Saturday, to support the "March for Our Lives" rally.
  The cyclist call themselves 'Team 26' in response to the 2012's Sandy Hook Shooting. Their goal: to send the message to politicians in Washington that Americans want sensible gun laws.  They have traveled from Newtown to Washington D.C. every year since the tragedy.
  They rode for about four hours Saturday to join others in Hartford who share
  
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• Police Identify Woman Found Dead at Groton Hotel

  25-03-2018 04:33
  
  Police are investigating after finding a woman dead at the Ramada Inn in Groton early Friday morning.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Police Investigate 2 Robberies in Columbia

  25-03-2018 03:29
  
  State police are investigating two separate robberies in the town of Columbia that happened within hours of each other on Saturday morning. One suspect is in custody and another is still on the loose.
  
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• Final Four bound: No. 11 Loyola beats Kansas State 78-62

  25-03-2018 01:56
  ATLANTA  — Sister Jean and the Loyola Ramblers are headed to the Final Four.
  This improbable NCAA Tournament just took its craziest turn yet.
  Ben Richardson scored 23 points and 11th-seeded Loyola romped to a 78-62 victory over Kansas State on Saturday night, capping off a remarkable run through the bracket-busting South Regional.
  “Are you kidding me! Are you kidding me!” coach Porter Moser screamed over and over again in front of the scarf-clad faithful who made the trip
  
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• State Police investigating a suspicious death in East Haddam

  25-03-2018 00:24
  EAST HADDAM —  State Troopers are investigating a suspicious death in a East Haddam neighborhood that happened Friday night.
  Police said they responded to North Moodus Road around 5:20 p.m. Detectives from Eastern Major Crime also responded and have taken charge of the investigation.
  The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will conduct a post-mortem examination to determine the cause and manner of the death.
  The name of the deceased has not been released.  Police said that
  
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