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• Basketball great Bill Russell hospitalized briefly

  19-05-2018 23:00
  SEATTLE — NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell has been released from a Seattle hospital after an overnight stay for an unknown condition.
  Russell confirmed on Twitter Saturday that he went to the hospital late Friday but does not say why.
  Russell says in the light-hearted message, “As my wife likes to remind me, I don’t drink enough.”
  He thanked fans for their concern and appeared to dismiss reports that the hospital visit was due to heart troubles.
  Russell says in the message
  
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• Grandma’s accidental selfie video leads to internet fame

  19-05-2018 22:52
  PHOENIX, Ariz. – A Phoenix grandmother became an internet sensation after she experienced some user-error on her new smartphone, according to KPHO.
  Adrienne Gutowski was gifted a smartphone from her granddaughter on Tuesday, but she quickly became convinced that it was more of an annoyance than advantageous.
  “Apryl! Why did my phone turn into a mirror?” Grandma Adrienne said as she accidentally recorded her reaction. “I’m looking at my face and, oh my, look at
  
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• Democrats nominate Ned Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz for Governor and Lieutenant Governor

  19-05-2018 21:17
  HARTFORD — Ned Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz won the Democratic nominations Saturday afteroon for Governor and Lt. Governor, respectively.
  Lamont easily won the state’s Democratic Party’s endorsement for governor Saturday, 12 years after he challenged the party’s veteran U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in a race seen as a referendum on the war in Iraq.
  Susan Bysiewicz won the nomination by obtaining 59.01% of the vote while Bermudez-Zimmerman took in 39.83%, and Stallworth took
  
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• Santa Fe High School student ‘completely okay’ after being shot in the head

  19-05-2018 19:16
  Watch VideoSANTE FE, Texas — Doctors told Rome Shubert, 16, he had the “perfect scenario.”
  A bullet sliced clean through the back of the Santa Fe High School sophomore’s head during a shooting that left 10 people dead and 10 others, including Rome, wounded. Remarkably, he walked away with just bandages, and said on Twitter he was “completely okay and stable.”
  Rome told CNN affiliate KTRK he initially didn’t realize he was shot. He said he was doing schoo
  
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• Melania Trump released from the hospital after kidney procedure

  19-05-2018 18:34
  WASHINGTON – First lady Melania Trump was released from the hospital Saturday morning, her office confirmed.
  “The first lady returned home to the White House this morning. She is resting comfortably and remains in high spirits,” said Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s communications director. “Our office has received thousands of calls and emails wishing Mrs. Trump well, and we thank everyone who has taken the time to reach out.”
  Trump has been recuperating a
  
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• Yale being probed by DOE, accused of ‘toxic environment against men’

  19-05-2018 17:56
  NEW HAVEN – The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating Yale University after a male student from another school filed a Title IX complaint in February, accusing the Ivy League institution of a “toxic environment against men.”
  Kursat Chistoff Pekgoz, an English literature doctoral student at the University of Southern California who has no affiliation to Yale, filed the complaint after he singled out the Ivy League for its overall culture o
  
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• Firefighters work around storm debris to fight Danbury shed fire

  19-05-2018 17:34
  DANBURY – Downed trees from Tuesday’s violent storms were a problem for firefighters in Danbury this morning.
  They were called to North Nabby Road at 7:40 a.m. for a shed fire. They spotted a column of smoke while still en route, but when they arrived they found they had to work around fallen trees from the storms that had not yet been cleared. Crews called for additional tankers from the Beaver Brook Volunteer Fire Department,  Germantown Volunteer Fire Company, and Mill Plain
  
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• Pedestrian struck and killed on Wilbur Cross Parkway in Hamden

  19-05-2018 16:53
  HAMDEN – Connecticut State Police are seeking witnesses to a fatal pedestrian accident that occurred late Friday night in Hamden.
  Police said that just before 11:30 p.m., they were alerted to a pedestrian walking on the southbound shoulder of the Wilbur Cross Parkway (Route 15), in the area of Exit 61, in Hamden. Before they arrived, they got another call saying the man had been struck by a car.
  When they arrived, they found the car that struck him on the right shoulder and the pedestrian,
  
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• CCMC patient makes it to her prom

  19-05-2018 04:37
  A teen patient at Connecticut Children's Medical Center thought she would have to miss prom but thanks to some fairy godparents, she was able to attend the big dance Friday.
  Toni Laites checked into CCMC earlier this week when her ulcerative colitis began acting up.
  She feared she would miss her prom Friday but CCMC came to the rescue. Doctors gave her treatments today and allowed her to check out for a few hours to enjoy her prom.
  Nurses and doctors even did her hair and makeup. Laites said it
  
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• Body of ‘severely neglected’ child found in California storage unit; couple arrested

  19-05-2018 04:14
  SACRAMENTO – Officers found the body of a child after responding to a storage facility in Sacramento on Tuesday night, according to KTXL.
  The body was inside of a storage unit that belongs to Nevada residents Tyler and Averyauna Anderson, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
  Sacramento and Reno police departments have opened a joint investigation with Reno as the lead agency.
  According to the Reno Police Department, Tyler’s 5-year-old daughter died at some point in the last
  
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• Man wins 4 lottery prizes – including for $5M and $1M – within months

  19-05-2018 04:12
  LOS ANGELES – A lucky lottery player from Southern California has won more than $6 million in prizes in the past six months, including one worth a staggering $5 million, state lottery officials announced Friday.
  The California Lottery released this photo of Antulio Mazariegos after a winning scratcher earned him $5 million.
  Antulio Mazariegos recently walked into the California Lottery’s Van Nuys District Office with the $5 million-winning scratchers ticket. Mazariegos had purchased
  
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• Two Mugshots.com owners charged with extortion

  19-05-2018 02:40
  SACRAMENTO – Two Florida men accused of running an extortion scheme using the website Mugshots.com saw their own police photos released online Wednesday.
  The two men, Thomas Keesee and Sahar Sarid, are two of the four alleged operators of the site, which gathered booking photos and posted them online for the purpose of generating “de-publishing fees” in exchange for their removal, according to authorities.
  “This pay-for-removal scheme attempts to profit off of someone el
  
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• There has been, on average, 1 school shooting every week this year

  19-05-2018 02:40
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  We’re only 20 weeks into 2018, and there have already been 22 school shootings where someone was hurt or killed. That averages out to more than 1 shooting a week.
  The parameters CNN followed in this count are:A shooting that involved at least one person being shot (not including the shooter)
  A shooting that occurred on school grounds
  We included grades K through college/university level
  We included gang violence, fights and domestic violence
  We
  
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• Quadruplets graduate from high school together

  19-05-2018 02:40
  OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- The Wilhoit quadruplets walked across the stage in succession at Shawnee Mission West’s graduation Thursday night.
  It was fitting for Overland, Kansas siblings Ben, Mia, Noah and Zach, who are all 19 years old. They've spent most of their lives by each other’s side.
  “Four kids at the same time is kind of wild, but it was always nice having somebody to play with when you were a kid. You have three buddies right next to you," Noah said.
  Tens of thousa
  
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• Oklahoma school employee arrested for being under the influence of meth at work

  19-05-2018 02:40
  EDMOND, Okla. – An Edmond Public Schools employee was arrested for allegedly being under the influence of meth while she was at work, according to KFOR.
  On May 15th, around 12:45 p.m., officials at Will Rogers Elementary School called police about a possible intoxicated employee.
  When officers arrived, they started talking with 42-year-old Amanda Greenfield, who is a teaching assistant at the school.
  The officer noted that Greenfield was rambling about different things and was not making a
  
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• Officers harassed fellow cops with sex toy they named Big Blue, New Jersey lawsuit says

  19-05-2018 02:40
  MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. — Three New Jersey police officers are accused of several acts of harassment, including one caught on camera involving a sex toy, according to a lawsuit.
  The disturbing video shows Mountainside officer Andrew Huber smacking the sex toy in the face of another officer, referring to the toy as Big Blue.
  Lots of laughter follows as a lieutenant at the department records the video.
  “It’s just wrong, you don’t do things like that in the workplace,” sai
  
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• Man punches deaf pregnant woman, service dog on flight to Orlando: police

  19-05-2018 02:40
  ORLANDO, Fla. — A man punched a pregnant, deaf woman and her service dog on a flight from Colorado Springs to Orlando shortly after the plane landed, police in Florida said Friday, according to KRDO.
  Matthew Silvay and Hazel Ramirez — a deaf couple — were traveling with their two kids and service dog on Frontier Airlines Flight 1752 to Orlando.
  When the plane landed, passenger Timothy Manley punched Ramirez and her service dog, Orlando police told KRDO.
  Manley felt Ramirez&rsqu
  
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• Man arrested for 1987 murders of Canadian couple, killed during trip to Seattle

  19-05-2018 02:40
  EVERETT, Wash. – An arrest has been made in the murders of 20-year-old Jay Cook and 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg, more than 30 years after the bodies of the young couple were found in Washington state's Snohomish and Skagit counties.
  Police arrested 55-year-old William Earl Talbott II, of SeaTac, and booked him into Snohomish County jail on one count of first-degree murder in Van Cylenborg’s death. Detectives are still processing evidence and interviewing witnesses in Cook&
  
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