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• Police issue Silver Alert for missing 76 year-old East Haddam man

  07-04-2018 23:11
  EAST HADDAM — Police issued a Silver Alert for a missing East Haddam man late Saturday morning.
  Police said that Robert Torzsa was last seen Friday.
  Torzsa is a bald white man with brown eyes. He is  5’7″ and weighs about 140 lbs.  Police had description of what kind of clothes Torzsa could be wearing. A picture provided from State Police, show that Torzsa wears glasses.
  Torzsa maybe operating a tan 2014 Chevy Equinox.
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• 3 dead after delivery vehicle hits crowd in German city of Muenster, police say

  07-04-2018 19:03
  MUENSTER, Germany — A delivery vehicle slammed into a crowd Saturday in an apparently deliberate attack in the German city of Muenster, killing three people and leaving 20 others injured, police said.
  The driver shot and killed himself, a police spokeswoman said.
  Authorities are treating the incident as a deliberate attack, the spokeswoman said.
  Muenster police spokesman Andreas Boden told local media that the motive and identity of the driver is unknown.
  The attack happened in the ol
  
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• 2 dead after delivery vehicle hits crowd in German city of Muenster

  07-04-2018 19:03
  MUENSTER, Germany — A delivery vehicle slammed into a crowd Saturday in an apparently deliberate attack in the German city of Muenster, killing three people and leaving 20 others injured, police said.
  A senior German official says the perpetrator of an apparent deliberate act on Saturday was a German citizen. State Minister for Internal Affairs Herbert Reul told reporters Saturday night that nothing as of now suggests the German driver of the vehicle that plowed through a restaurant&r
  
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• Silver Alert Issued For Missing 76-Year-Old East Haddam Man

  07-04-2018 18:38
  
  Robert Torzsa was last seen on Friday, according to police.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• State Police seeking witnesses after man found dead on I-84

  07-04-2018 18:22
  DANBURY – Connecticut State Police are looking for witnesses to the events that left a New York man lying dead on Interstate 84.
  About 1 a.m. on Saturday, police at Troop A were called with a report of a person in the roadway on I-84 westbound, prior to exit 2 in Danbury. When they arrived, they found a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee on the right shoulder.  In the right travel lane, they found the Jeep’s owner, 32 year old Daniel Crawford Jr., of Brewster, New York.
  At this time, poli
  
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• Man Killed in Hit-and-Run on I-84 in Danbury

  07-04-2018 18:19
  
  State police are investigating a hit-and-run on Interstate 84 in Danbury.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Facebook plans to let everyone unsend messages, will stop Zuckerberg until then

  07-04-2018 14:59
  PALO ALTO, Calif. — The  technology news website TechCrunch reported this week that Facebook retracted Facebook messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients’ inboxes. That’s an ability normal Facebook  users don’t have. But now Facebook tells the website that it plans to make an “unsend” feature available to all users in several months, and has already been considering how to build this product. Unti
  
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• Russell Crowe is selling his jockstrap, ex’s ring and more at divorce auction

  07-04-2018 14:10
  SYDNEY, Australia — Russell Crowe is sharing mementos from his marriage — for a price.
  The actor hosted a divorce-themed auction in Sydney on Saturday, which also happens to be his birthday and wedding anniversary.
  As part of the auction by Sotheby’s Australia, Crowe will part with an eclectic mix of items and movie souvenirs collected during his nine-year marriage to Danielle Spencer. The couple called it quits in 2012.
  Items on sale at the auction included his leath
  
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• Judge: Massachusetts AR-15 ban doesn’t violate 2nd Amendment

  07-04-2018 13:54
  BOSTON — Assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment, a federal judge said in a ruling Friday upholding Massachusetts’ ban on the weapons.
  U.S. District Judge William Young dismissed a lawsuit challenging the 20-year-old ban, saying assault weapons are military firearms that fall beyond the reach of the constitutional right to “bear arms.”Regulation of the weapons is a matter of policy, not for the courts, he said.
  “Other
  
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• Lamont receives signs of support from labor for governor bid

  07-04-2018 13:20
  HARTFORD — Greenwich businessman and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Ned Lamont is receiving signs of early support from organized labor, leading an unofficial straw poll of Connecticut AFL-CIO delegates.
  Lamont was one of five Democratic contenders who spoke Friday at the union organization’s multi-day political convention.
  When delegates reconvene June 22, they’re expected to make endorsements for U.S. Senate, 5th Congressional District, various General Assembly seats and po
  
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• The Stan Simpson Show: Should you delete Facebook?

  07-04-2018 12:30
  HARTFORD --  The social media phenomena that is Facebook is at an important cross roads.
  The company now concedes that 87 million users -- mostly in America - may have had their private information shared by a political targeting firm.The Federal Trade Commission is investigating and attorney generals from across the country are seeking more information on the company’s data security practices.
  Meanwhile, some users are either deleting, or threatening to their accounts. And its stock
  
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• The Stan Simpson Show: Commemorating 50 years since Martin Luther King’s death

  07-04-2018 12:30
  HARTFORD --  CCSU instructor Stephen Balkaran joins the Stan Simpson show to talk about the legacy of Martin Luther King.
  Thursday was the 50th anniversary of his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
  
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• At least 14 people killed in crash involving Canadian junior hockey team

  07-04-2018 11:51
  NIPAWIN, Saskatchewan  — A crash between a tractor-trailer and a bus carrying a junior league hockey team left 14 people dead Friday in western Canada, police said.Members of the Humboldt Broncos were headed to Nipawin, Saskatchewan, when the crash happened north of Tisdale, Saskatchewan.Fourteen others were wounded in the crash and taken to a hospital. Three of them were in critical condition, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police told CNN partner, CTV.A total of 28 people — i
  
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• New Haven legislators approve funding for sinking homes in three neighborhoods

  07-04-2018 04:34
  NEW HAVEN - Longtime residents in several neighborhoods in New Haven are fed up to see their homes and sidewalks slowly crumble apart.
  New Haven legislators announced Friday the approval of funding to help these homeowners.
  "I'm afraid I can stub and fall and hurt myself," said Leroy Mims of New Haven.
  Mims has lived on Fountain Terrace for many years. It was just recently when he became extremely concerned when he discovered a large crack on the outside of his house.
  Before that, Mims said he
  
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• Officers Remained at Bridgeport's Central and Bassick High Schools After Investigations

  07-04-2018 03:28
  
  Central High School in Bridgeport was on lockdown as police investigated a social media threat that turned out to be a reference to a school in New Mexico Friday, according to police.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Massachusetts college student found dead in Mexico was electrocuted on train tracks

  07-04-2018 03:25
  A Massachusetts college football player who died while on spring break in Mexico last month, was electrocuted after falling onto a set of train tracks, according to New York Daily News.
  Andrew Dorogi, of Cleveland who was a senior at Amherst College, was on spring break in Mexico City when authorities found his body on a track at the Camarones Metro train station March 15.
  First responders pronounced Dorogi dead on the scene.
  His death was first labeled a “culpable homicide,” but Mex
  
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• City of Groton Implementing New Autism Safety Software

  07-04-2018 03:17
  
  The city of Groton is taking steps to better assist citizens on the autism spectrum.
  
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• Arizona, Texas send 400 troops to border after Trump’s call

  07-04-2018 03:12
  AUSTIN, Texas  — Arizona and Texas announced Friday that they would send 400 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border by next week in response to President Donald Trump’s call for troops to fight drug trafficking and illegal immigration.
  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said about 150 Guard members would deploy next week. And the Texas National Guard said it was already sending Guardsmen to the border, with plans to place 250 troops there in the next 72 hours as an “initial
  
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• Embattled Texas Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold resigns

  07-04-2018 02:54
  TEXAS —  Republican Blake Farenthold announced he’s resigning from the House of Representatives effective Friday, a few months after news broke he used taxpayer money to pay a settlement to a former aide who accused the Texas Republican of sexual harassment and other improper conduct.
  After his announcement, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which works to elect GOP candidates to the House, requested he pay back the money that was used for the settlement.
  “I
  
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• Workers find body in culvert underneath abandoned Utah Kmart

  07-04-2018 02:23
  WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah -- A crew doing survey work at the old Kmart building in West Valley City, Utah located what appears to be a body inside an overflow area below the parking lot Friday afternoon.
  Sgt. Scott Arnold of the West Valley City Police Department said a survey crew was working at the old Kmart near 4100 South and 1770 West (near Redwood Road) and made the discovery shortly after 12 p.m.
  Survey crews were checking pipes and drainage, and they found a body beneath a grating in the o
  
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• Pilot says Lyft driver kicked him out after realizing airport was just a $6 trip

  07-04-2018 02:22
  LOS ANGELES – A man who ordered a Lyft to take him to Los Angeles International Airport this week was dropped off at a random parking lot instead after the driver realized how little money he would be making on the trip, according to a video recording of the incident.
  Darryl, a pilot for a major airline who didn't want his last name used or his employer identified, was headed to LAX on Thursday morning for work when the incident took place.
  He was on a tight schedule when the driver appar
  
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• Congressman Courtney asks Education Secretary Devos to provide resources, relief for Ridley-Lowell students

  07-04-2018 02:19
  NORWICH — Congressman Joe Courtney, a member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in regards of the Ridley-Lowell Business and Technical Institute that closed without notice this week.
  On Friday, Courtney asked DeVos to work quickly to provide resources and debt relief to the students and recent graduates of the technical school.
  “The sudden and stunning decision by Ridley-Lowell Business & Technical Institute to
  
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• Veterinarian Warns of Swine Flu in Cats

  07-04-2018 00:51
  
  A local animal hospital in Cheshire is warning residents about cats contracting the swine flu.
  
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• Hackers Target Avon Couple's Cell Phone Service

  07-04-2018 00:43
  
  Hackers were able to get account information belonging to an Avon couple.Photo Credit: Submitted Photo
  
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• Mom warns parents after 5-year-old spent weeks in coma from window fall

  07-04-2018 00:18
  SAN DIEGO - As summertime approaches, a California mother wants other parents to know how hazardous windows can be after her own daughter spent three weeks in a coma after a fall two years ago.
  Natalie was 5 years old when she spent 23 days in a medically-induced coma after falling from a window of her family's two-story home in San Diego.
  Rady Children's Hospital Dr. Seema Shah, who is the director of quality and patient safety, said Natalie's story is common. In the past two years,
  
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• Dad left gun in 8-year-old’s backpack – how he got it back led to his arrest

  07-04-2018 00:17
  MIAMI – A Florida father faces multiple charges after he put a handgun in his son’s backpack and forgot to take it out before dropping the boy off at school Thursday morning, police said.
  Had he notified authorities things might have ended differently for 53-year-old Ramon Nuiry, but the Miami father instead decided to go to Kendale Elementary and retrieve the weapon hmiself, according to the Miami Herald.
  Nuiry asked school employees to call the boy and ask him to bring his backpac
  
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• Four police officers burned saving man who set himself on fire at Utah gas station

  07-04-2018 00:16
  KAYSVILLE, Utah - Four officers are recovering after being burned while trying to help a man who doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire at a Utah gas station.
  Police responded to the gas station at in Kaysville on Thursday around 2 p.m.
  "Indications were he was pouring gas on himself and threatening to light himself on fire inside this Chevron convenience store," said Chief Sol Oberg of the Kaysville Police Department.
  Kaysville City officials say the  suicidal man poure
  
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