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• Former MLB star Albert Belle arrested for indecent exposure, DUI

  26-03-2018 23:58
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – An Arizona police department released new information about the arrest of former Cleveland Indians outfielder Albert Belle.
  (Photo Credit: Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office)
  Belle, 51, was charged with indecent exposure and driving while under the influence.
  Officers were called to the Phoenix Rising FC Soccer Complex shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday for a report of indecent exposure. Salt River police said Belle and another person exposed themselves to two adults a
  
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• Fairfield residents warned about hawk attack

  26-03-2018 23:52
  FAIRFIELD --  Folks in Fairfield know all about hawks.
  “In 2012 we had the problem happen," said Fairfield Police Chief, Gary MacNamara. "It occurred over a period of time where neighbors were being attacked."
  2012 was when the hawk problem started, but far from when it ended.
  “In 2016 it also occurred," said MacNamara. "Now, we find ourselves again where a woman in her backyard was attacked by a hawk.”
  That woman suffered minor injuries but police want it to serve a
  
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• Facebook Collected Android Phone Data For Years, Report Claims

  26-03-2018 23:15
  CBS Local — Facebook is facing new questions about its data-privacy practices as Android device users found the service had collected years of contact names, telephone numbers, call lengths, and text messages.
  The practice was revealed on the same day Facebook bought ads in U.S. and British newspapers to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with website Ars Technica reporting that users found their data was being scraped by the social-media service.
  Facebook said S
  
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• Gov. Malloy sticking with McDonald, despite lack of GOP support; Sen. Fasano responds

  26-03-2018 23:03
  HARTFORD — Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he’s not withdrawing his nominee for chief justice of Connecticut’s highest court, despite being informed there will be no Republican support for Associate Justice Andrew McDonald in the state Senate.
  The governor said Monday he was informed that no GOP senators will vote Tuesday for his nominee.
  Malloy said Republicans “should be held accountable” for voting as a block against McDonald, who has been endorsed by vari
  
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• Malloy to Will Not Pull Nomination for Chief Justice of CT Supreme Court

  26-03-2018 22:19
  
  Gov. Malloy said he will not pull his nomination for chief justice despite the Senate GOP telling him they'll vote as a book against the nomination. On Mar. 12, the Connecticut State House of...Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Spring has arrived for the week, warmer, sunny

  26-03-2018 22:00
  This is the first week this month where we're not monitoring the potential for accumulating snow!
  We're slowly turning the corner. This week will feature a very typical spring set-up. Connecticut will be right in the battle-zone separating warm air to the south and colder air to the north. This will bring us a few chances for showers along with a tricky temperature forecast.
  As those showers move in Wednesday, they could start as a bit of freezing drizzle or sleet early in the morning. Luckily,
  
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• Local Relief for Medical Debt: NBC Connecticut Responds

  26-03-2018 21:35
  
  Andrea Gaskins, of Middletown, nearly hit rock bottom while dealing with mounting medical bills and threatening calls from debt collectors and she is not alone.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Cheshire police arrest 4 in connection with vehicle break ins

  26-03-2018 21:18
  CHESHIRE — Police arrested four people Sunday in connection with car break-ins.
  On Sunday morning, police were called the area of Cedar Lane near Flagler Ave for a report of a person, wearing a red sweatshirt, going through a vehicle in a driveway. The said the same suspect got into a parked, dark colored SUV, and that SUV left the area on Cedar La travelling towards Highland Ave.
  Police saw the SUV leaving the area of Cedar Lane and stopped it.  The occupants were arrested on ch
  
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• ‘Slice’ Of Ketchup? Company Tries To End Condiment Mess With New Take On Old Classic

  26-03-2018 20:52
  CBS Local — A Kickstarter project called Slice of Sauce wants to provide a solution to one of life’s most pressing problems: messy, inconvenient ketchup.
  You can pack a bottle in your picnic basket, but it takes up a lot of room. It can separate, so you get a big splash of semi-clear liquid on your sandwich. Ketchup can also turn your bread into a soggy mess. What have we done to deserve such ill treatment from our condiments?
  Slice of Sauce comes from Bo&rsq
  
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• Preliminary report for NY helicopter crash released

  26-03-2018 20:44
  NEW YORK — The National Transportation Safety Board has released the preliminary report on the crash of a helicopter earlier in the month.
  Five people died after the helicopter they were passengers on went down March 11 in New York’s East River.
  Three of the passengers had been taken to hospital with critical injuries after surviving the crash. Two others were killed in the crash.
  A sixth person, the pilot, was able to free himself and was rescued.
  Officials said, “The prelimin
  
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• Mother Crashed Into Pole To Prove To Her Kids God Is Real, Police Say

  26-03-2018 20:28
  CBS Local — A Georgia woman crashed her SUV into a telephone pole in an attempt to convince her children that god was real and would protect them.
  Police in Norcross say that Bahari Shaquille Warren veered into oncoming traffic with her two children in the backseat and eventually hit a pole on the side of the road. Warren’s children, ages five and seven, claim their mother intentionally wrecked the car to prove her point.
  “Her eyes (were) closed and she was saying, ‘
  
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• Jepsen endorses Lamont in Governor’s race

  26-03-2018 20:23
  HARTFORD — Attorney General George Jepsen has endorsed Ned Lamont in the race for governor.
  Jepsen, who is not running for reelection, said, “Of all the Democratic candidates, Ned is the only one who can win the November general election. Ned carries a real understanding of the policy issues facing our state; he is thoughtful, practical, and brings a diversity of public and private sector experience to the table. I know him as a man of integrity who will not shy away from standing fo
  
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• Hartford Healthcare donates generator to Puerto Rican hospital, Hispanic Health Council

  26-03-2018 20:12
  HARTFORD — Harford HealthCare has donated $85,000 to assist in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, some of which will go to purchase a generator for a hospital on the storm damaged island.
  Officials said in addition to the money for the generator at a rural hospital in Castener, a $25,000  donation  will go to the Hispanic Health Council of Hartford to assist families from Puerto Rico displaced by Hurricane Maria. It will help secure long-term housing, such as deposits for ren
  
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• Woman Dies After Not Being Given A Flu Shot In Prison, Lawsuit Claims

  26-03-2018 19:12
  CBS Local — An Oregon woman is reportedly suing the state’s Department of Corrections after her imprisoned mother died from complications of a staph infection and pneumonia. Fifty-three-year-old Tina Ferri’s daughter claims the fatal illness could have been prevented if she had been given a flu shot while in prison.
  Ferri died after an outbreak of flu at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville in early January. According to the Willamette Week,
  
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• School district plans for more armed security after saying students will be armed with rocks

  26-03-2018 19:09
  ORWIGSBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania school district in the national spotlight for its plan to defend students in the event of a shooting is concerned about the effect of all that attention.
  The superintendent of Blue Mountain School District made headlines last week after announcing students would be armed with rocks as a last-ditch effort to defend themselves if a shooter attacked the school.
  Following all the media attention the district has gotten, Superintendent David Helsel posted on Facebook
  
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• New Haven Break-In Suspect Found Napping on Sofa: Police

  26-03-2018 19:04
  
  When officers responded to a reported break-in at a New Haven home Saturday they found the suspect sleeping on a sofa in the living room, according to New Haven police.Photo Credit: New Haven Police Department
  
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• CDC Warns Second Wave Of Flu Has Begun

  26-03-2018 18:41
  CBS Local — Although the flu season may be winding down, the CDC has some bad news for Americans as a second wave of the potentially fatal illness is reportedly spreading across the country.
  In a March 23 release the CDC announced that overall flu cases are finally dropping however, “Influenza B” cases have jumped above the more common “Influenza A” virus. Cases of the B-strain made up nearly 60 percent of the country’s flu cases reported during the
  
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• Taco Festival Coming to Connecticut This Summer

  26-03-2018 18:27
  
  There is a festival coming to Connecticut that you'll sure want to taco-bout.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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• Sister Jean becomes best-selling bobblehead as she continues to steal show at NCAA tournament

  26-03-2018 18:21
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  What makes NCAA March Madness special is when a Cinderella team advances in stunning fashion.
  This year, that team is the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers, becoming just the fourth No. 11 seed to reach the Final Four in the history of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
  And this Cinderella story has a fairy godmother.
  For nearly a quarter of a century, Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has been the team’s chaplain. She’s also the Ramblers’ biggest fan
  
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• Orange snow blankets parts of Russia

  26-03-2018 18:19
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  SOCHI, Russa – Skiers and snowboarders were met with orange-tinted snow in Sochi, Russia, this weekend.
  The usually powdery white snow turned colors due to a sandstorm that blew across the Sahara Desert in North Africa.
  “We’re skiing on Mars today,” exclaimed one social media user as he skied down the slopes.
  The sandstorm made its way through Greece up to Russia and was so big that it could actually be seen via NASA satellite imagery.
  The Athens Observatory s
  
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• FOX61 Family First: Yale-New Haven Hospital’s new neonatal wing

  26-03-2018 17:51
  NEW HAVEN -- At Yale New Haven Hospital, their new baby is helping new babies.
  FOX61's Matt Scott was given an all-access tour of the new neonatal wing, which has been open in New Haven for a few weeks now, and is the first of it’s kind in the United States.
  The wing is a two floor facility designed to keep new families together as much as possible starting with the first moment of a child’s life. If a newborn needs extra help and is admitted into the NICU, often that child is seclu
  
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• No, Emma Gonzalez did not tear up a photo of the Constitution

  26-03-2018 17:44
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  A doctored animation of Parkland shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez ripping the US Constitution in two went viral on social media after Gab, a so-called “free speech social network” that features the controversial Pepe the Frog as its account image, posted it on Twitter.
  Not gonna happen. pic.twitter.com/4kKBcSqdCl
  — Gab: Free Speech Social Network (@getongab) March 24, 2018The tweet gathered 1,500 retweets and 2,900 likes and only after a few hours did Gab specif
  
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• Shooting survivor throws up on stage, finishes speech, sings happy birthday for classmate killed in front of her

  26-03-2018 17:37
  WASHINGTON, D.C. – The March for Our Lives participants are articulate and organized, so it’s easy to forget that many of them are teenagers who might be overwhelmed by the weight of the moment.
  Samantha Fuentes, who was wounded in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, proved that Saturday afternoon when she threw up behind the lectern in the middle of an impassioned speech to thousands in Washington.
  Fuentes bounced back up and proclaimed, “I just threw up on int
  
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• Tracey Bregman Reflects On The Young And The Restless

  26-03-2018 17:29
  “The Young and the Restless” has been daytime TV’s number one rated drama for almost three decades. Today marks the 45th anniversary of when the show first premiered back in 1973 when Richard Nixon was in the White House and the price of gas was 38 cents a gallon. The show will celebrate this historic anniversary with a week-long run featuring the return of beloved characters. Some of the cast members still meet yearly for a Christmas party and nobody is more excited to get eve
  
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• Connecticut Students Continue Call for Change

  26-03-2018 17:26
  
  Students at the ACT Magnet High School in Willimantic are holding a walkout Monday, just two days after tens of thousands of people participated in the March for Our Lives.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Resident Dead, Firefighters Injured in Middletown Fire

  26-03-2018 17:19
  
  A man is dead after a house fire in Middletown early Monday morning and two firefighters were injured while trying to get to him.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Latest MLB Power Rankings

  26-03-2018 17:05
  The reigning champion Astros take the top spot in our preseason power rankings. Where does your team sit to begin the season?
  
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• Police Investigating Bank Robbery in Woodstock

  26-03-2018 16:42
  
  Police are investigating an armed bank robbery in Woodstock Friday afternoon and they are searching for the robber.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• 30 Players: Walker Buehler Leads Talented Group Of N.L. West Prospects

  26-03-2018 16:33
  The Los Angeles Dodgers ran away with the National League West in 2017 on their way to a run to the World Series, and they will look to utilize more young talent to repeat as division champs and avenge their Fall Classic loss.
  The Dodgers may not have an easy road though, as they will be challenged again by last year’s Wild Card winners, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, while the revamped San Diego Padres hope to make a push while the San Francisco Giants continue to rebuild.
  
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• Putnam Man Charged in Four Burglaries

  26-03-2018 16:25
  
  A Putnam man was arrested after turning himself in on Friday for multiple burglaries, according to Connecticut State Police.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• Dana Delany On Bull, Michael Weatherly And Moonlighting

  26-03-2018 16:17
  In Hollywood, one show or movie can change your whole career. That’s exactly what happened to actress Dana Delany when she appeared on the television show “Moonlighting” back in 1985. Delany got the gig through Glenn Gordon Caron, the show’s creator, and now the two are working together again. Delany guest stars this week on a brand new episode of “Bull” on CBS as Assistant U.S. District Attorney Syliva Banner. Caron is writer on the show and Delany and the st
  
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• Anderson Cooper’s Stormy Daniels interview draws highest ratings for ’60 Minutes’ in 10 years

  26-03-2018 16:04
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  NEW YORK — Anderson Cooper’s interview with Stormy Daniels propelled “60 Minutes” to its highest-rated episode in 10 years, according to Nielsen ratings.
  Preliminary ratings, known as “overnights,” showed the episode drawing more than twice as many viewers than a typical edition of the show.
  When the final ratings are in later on Monday, the program is expected to rank as the highest-rated “60 Minutes” episode since Barack and Michelle
  
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• Former VP Joe Biden Speaks to Packed House in New Haven

  26-03-2018 15:41
  
  The house was packed at the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts in New Haven Friday night as people gathered to hear former Vice President Joe Biden speak.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico

  26-03-2018 15:06
  CHICAGO — A US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
  The deportation follows an earlier decision by US authorities to deny Miguel Perez’s citizenship application because of a felony drug conviction, despite his service and the PTSD he says it caused.
  Perez, 39, was escorted across the US-Mexico border from Texas and handed over to Mexican authorities Friday, ICE said in a statement.
  Perez, his family
  
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• US kicks out 60 Russian diplomats over spy case

  26-03-2018 15:05
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  WASHINGTON DC — The United States is kicking out 60 Russian diplomats and ordering Russia’s consulate in Seattle to close in response to the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain.
  Senior Trump administration officials say the expelled Russians include 12 spies who the U.S. believes are working under diplomatic cover at Russia’s mission to the United Nations. They say the Seattle consulate is a counter-intelligence concern because of its proximity to a U.S. Navy base.
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• Machete-wielding man tried to kidnap children at Walmart

  26-03-2018 14:22
  KENNER, La.  — Police in Louisiana say a stranger with a machete tried to snatch two children from their mothers inside a Walmart.
  Kenner police describe the case in a Facebook post. They say 33-year-old Billy Yoe Budier-Herrera tried to take a 2-year-old boy from her mother’s grocery cart, at one point both of them pulling the child. She prevailed but the man then ran through the store, swinging the machete at employees who tried to intervene.
  Police say he then spotted another
  
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• Impaired Wrong-Way Driver Caused Crash on Route 9 in Berlin: Police

  26-03-2018 14:04
  
  A Newington woman who was driving the wrong way on Route 9 in Berlin and crashed into another vehicle was driving while impaired, according to state police.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police and NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Attorney for Sacramento shooting victim: ‘Why didn’t you try to help him?’

  26-03-2018 14:04
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  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An attorney for the family of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old black man shot and killed by Sacramento Police, said police showed no “humanity” toward Clark after he had been shot.
  “While he laid down on that ground dying, they waited six minutes. And then they go over to him after that and they put him in handcuffs,” attorney Benjamin Crump told CNN’s Dan Simon.
  Crump also noted that shortly after that, police muted their b
  
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• What we know about Emma Gonzalez, the fiercely outspoken teen who stunned America with her silence

  26-03-2018 13:13
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  WASHINGTON DC  — She strode on stage at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington over the weekend, and listed the names of the 17 students and staff gunned down at her high school in Parkland, Florida. And then she went silent.
  Minutes ticked by. One. Two. Three. Four.
  It was a visceral moment — one that an analyst called “the loudest silence in the history of US social protest.” It was the 18-year-old’s way of showing the world ho
  
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• Climbers with Disabilities Test Their Skills in Wallingford

  26-03-2018 13:09
  
  The Gaylord Sports Association and Paradox Sports hosted an adaptive climbing event at Prime Climb in Wallingford Saturday, where climbers will a range of disabilities tested their skills.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• What to Do About Robocalls

  26-03-2018 13:07
  
  Robocalls are more common than ever, but there are steps you can take to try to stop those pesky calls from making it through to your phone.
  
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• How the Parkland students pulled off a massive national protest in only 5 weeks

  26-03-2018 12:33
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  WASHINGTON DC — Just five weeks ago, a gunman killed 17 of their friends and teachers at school and changed the course of their lives. This weekend, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led a historic march for gun control, what they called a March for Our Lives.
  Here’s how the Parkland, Florida, students went from experiencing a mass tragedy to launching a mass movement.
  They took immediate action
  Within days of the February 14 shooting, the students made
  
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• Firefighters Knock Down House Fire in Thompson

  26-03-2018 12:13
  
  The cause of a house fire in Thompson is under investigation.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Chinese space lab to fall to Earth within days in ‘fiery demise’

  26-03-2018 11:33
  An out-of-control Chinese space lab is expected to fall to Earth within days, according to the latest estimate from the European Space Agency (ESA), which is monitoring its descent.
  The ESA’s Space Debris Office said that the re-entry window for the Tiangong-1 space station was between March 30 and April 2 although it warned the estimate was “highly variable.”
  While posing minimal risk to humans, the uncontrolled re-entry of the space lab is a blot on C
  
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• Siberian shopping mall fire kills 53, injures dozens, state media says

  26-03-2018 10:39
  KEMEROVO, Russia — At least 53 people are dead and dozens injured after a fire at a shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo on Sunday, a spokesman for the firefighting agency told Russian state media.
  State news agency Tass reported a fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya — also known as Winter Cherry — shopping mall in central Kemerovo broke out on the top floor of a four-story building, in the center’s cinema hall.
  The death toll rose on Monday morning after 16 more bod
  
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• Remington, one of America’s oldest gun makers, files for bankruptcy

  26-03-2018 10:34
  MADISON, NC — Remington Outdoor Brands has filed for bankruptcy.
  The bankruptcy filing allows Remington to stay in business while restructuring its massive debt. The company has been planning to reduce its debt by $700 million through the Chapter 11 process and contribute $145 million to its subsidiaries.
  Remington plans to keep on making guns. The company said, when it first announced its plan to file for bankruptcy in February, that operations “will not be disru
  
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• Gun rights advocates push back against Parkland shooting response

  26-03-2018 04:31
  The survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting have reignited the gun debate.
  The ‘March For Our Lives’ drew hundreds of thousands of people to Washington, D.C. and to similar events around the world including, about 13-thousand people to the State Capitol in Hartford.
  However, gun rights supporters are pushing back.
  “I do think it is ironic that it is ironic that they are actually using their first amendment rights to speak on behalf of eradicating our very own second amendm
  
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• Toys 'R Us Shoppers Look For Liquidation Deals

  26-03-2018 03:57
  
  Toys 'R Us has started its liquidation sale and everything must go.
  
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• Lone dog: No. 11 Loyola joins list of regulars at Final Four

  26-03-2018 03:03
  Three teams that need no introduction. One from out of nowhere.
  Though the 2018 NCAA Tournament produced the biggest upset in the history of the event along with a seemingly endless string of wild finishes and unexpected results, the Final Four will look very much like it has over the last handful of seasons.In one of next Saturday’s semifinals, it’s a barnburner of a matchup between top-seeded programs with rich histories: Villanova vs. Kansas.
  In what will quickly become known as t
  
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