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• CT Leaders Push for Housing for Displaced Puerto Ricans

  03-07-2018 23:53
  
  It has been nearly a year since Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico, displacing approximately 1,700 families. On Tuesday, a federal judge decided to extend FEMA’s temporary shelter assistance program...Photo Credit: Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/ AP, File
  
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• Your Guide to 4th of July Fireworks in New England

  03-07-2018 23:33
  
  Check out some places in the New England area to celebrate Independence Day!
  
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• Body Found in Abandoned Hartford Building

  03-07-2018 21:09
  
  A body was found in an abandoned building in Hartford that drug users frequent, according to police.
  
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• Police Investigating Double Shooting in New Haven

  03-07-2018 20:49
  
  Police are investigating a double shooting in New Haven Tuesday morning.
  
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• 1 Connecticut Swimming Area Closed

  03-07-2018 20:47
  
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• Bank Manager Accused of Embezzling $850,000

  03-07-2018 20:40
  
  A Hamden man is accused of embezzling more than $850,000 from the bank he worked at in Orange and has been arrested.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Crash in North Branford Was Fatal: Police

  03-07-2018 19:22
  
  A crash in North Branford Monday night was fatal, according to police.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Amazon Prime Day Starts July 16th

  03-07-2018 19:09
  (CNET)- Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale will be back in two weeks and include more deals, come to more countries and last longer than in past years. Plus, the company is giving away a new Lexus.
  The sale will kick off on Monday, July 16, at noon Pacific and go on for 36 hours, up from 30 hours last year. Australia, Singapore, Netherlands and Luxembourg will join in on Prime Day for the first time, along with the US, UK, Spain, Mexico, Japan, India, Italy, Germany, France, China, Canada, Bel
  
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• Walmart’s ‘Impeach 45’ Apparel Causing Backlash, Sparks Boycott Campaign

  03-07-2018 18:50
  (CBS News)- Walmart is selling “Impeach 45” apparel online, sparking outrage and a “boycott Walmart” campaign in support of the 45th president, Donald Trump. The retail giant is selling “Impeach 45” baby onesies and men’s T-shirts, both made by the apparel company Old Glory, on its website.
  Various items that echo the same anti-Trump sentiment are also available on Walmart’s website, including other T-shirts, bumper stickers and coffee mugs made by
  
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• Yankees, Red Sox Battle For A.L. East Crown Will Be Fun To Watch

  03-07-2018 18:10
  By Matt Citak
  There have been some amazing rivalries throughout the history of sports.
  Los Angeles Lakers vs. Boston Celtics. Michigan vs. Ohio State. Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali.
  While those clashes have produced some wildly entertaining moments over the years, it’s tough to compare any of them to that of the Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees.
  The bad blood between these two teams began almost 100 years ago, all the way back in 1920 when the Yankees acquired Babe Ruth from the Red Sox
  
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• Vehicle Catches Fire in I-84 Tunnel in Hartford

  03-07-2018 17:32
  
  Interstate 84 in Hartford was closed for around 45 minutes after a vehicle burst into flames in the tunnel between exits 50 and 51. While the vehicle is badly damaged, fire officials said no one was injured.
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• Seven Stars Cloud Plans to Buy Former UConn West Hartford Property

  03-07-2018 17:20
  
  Seven Stars Cloud, an international, high-tech company, plans to establish its global headquarters in West Hartford, according to the governor’s office.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Top 5 USA Sports Moments

  03-07-2018 17:15
  By Ryan Mayer, CBS Local Sports
  The day we all take a moment to don our best red, white and blue, while cooking out in the backyard with family and friends is upon us: July 4th.  Sports have always been a large part of American life and over the years our national teams have given us plenty to be proud of. With that in mind, let’s take a look back at some of the best sports moments in US history.  First, let’s cue up some background music for you:And away we go.
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• Hamden Teen Shot in New Haven

  03-07-2018 17:12
  
  A 19-year-old Hamden man was shot in the stomach in New Haven early Tuesday morning and he is undergoing surgery.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• How Does Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog-Eating Contest Actually Work?

  03-07-2018 16:43
  By Norm Elrod
  The Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, which takes place in Coney Island, on the edge of New York City, is competitive eating’s biggest event of the year. Joey Chestnut, who ate 72 hot dogs in 10 minutes, is the reigning male champion. The legendary competitive eater has won the event 10 times and holds the hot dog-eating world record (73). Miki Sudo, who ate 41 hot dogs last year, is the defending female champion.
  While the specta
  
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• Woman Hurt in Fall Between Boston Train, Platform

  03-07-2018 16:09
  
  Transit police released surveillance footage from the moment a woman's leg became caught between an Orange Line train and an MBTA platform in Boston, badly injuring her.The incident happened around 5:30Photo Credit: MBTA Transit PoliceThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Woman Cries Over Ambulance Cost After Getting Leg Caught in Platform Gap

  03-07-2018 16:09
  
  Transit police released surveillance footage from the moment a woman's leg became caught between an Orange Line train and an MBTA platform in Boston, badly injuring her.The incident happened around 5:30Photo Credit: MBTA Transit PoliceThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Police Search for Suspect After Domestic Violence Incident in New Britain

  03-07-2018 15:39
  
  Police are investigating a domestic incident on Trinity Street in New Britain and they are looking for the suspect.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut,com
  
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• More than 36 kids die in hot cars every year and July is usually the deadliest month

  03-07-2018 15:27
  Vehicular heatstroke. Hyperthermia. The devastating effects of a child being left in a hot car. It’s every parent’s unfathomable nightmare, yet it happens several times a year.
  The tragedy can happen almost anywhere, and while hotter months are always the riskiest, the circumstances surrounding child vehicular heatstroke are varied.
  Hot car deaths are a consistent problem
  According to the safety organization Kids and Cars, an average of 37 children die each year in hot cars. The
  
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• Gas Leak in Watertown Prompted Evacuations of Car Dealerships

  03-07-2018 15:22
  
  Several car dealerships in Watertown were evacuated Tuesday morning after a gas leak on Route 63.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Nigerian Midfielder Played World Cup Match Hours After Learning His Father Was Kidnapped

  03-07-2018 15:17
  Ryan Mayer
  Mikel John Obi and the Super Eagles of Nigeria were knocked out of the 2018 World Cup when they fell to Argentina 2-1 in the final game of Group D play last week. John Obi revealed on Tuesday that he was struggling emotionally heading into the match because he learned just hours beforehand that his father, Pa Michael Obi, had been kidnapped.
  According to David Hytner of The Guardian, John Obi received a call hours before the match from a family member who told him that he had to call
  
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• First Alert: Heat Wave Continues for Fifth Day

  03-07-2018 14:07
  
  The heat wave continues, the NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert and storms are possible later today in the hills.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• FOX61 Family First: Preventing childhood drownings

  03-07-2018 12:49
  HARTFORD -- Summer’s here, the pool is open, and the beaches are calling your name. But while that may scream #ctbucketlist, it also, for toddlers, can be dangerous.
  Children are naturally drawn to water without understanding its potential dangers. Countless children drown or suffer permanent injury every year because of avoidable accidents. Drowning is a silent killer than can occur in seconds!
  Acording to healthychildren.org, most infant drownings occur in bathtubs and buckets. Tod
  
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• New Haven PD: 19-year-old shot in stomach, critical but stable condition

  03-07-2018 11:58
  NEW HAVEN — New Haven police are investigating a shooting at Munson Street and Winchester Avenue that left a 19-year-old from Hamden with serious injuries.
  Police say the victim, a young man in his late teens, called 911 just before 4 a.m., saying he was shot once in the stomach.
  The victim was rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital, and is in critical but stable condition.
  There’s no word on any suspect as of yet.
  This is a developing story.
  
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• Heat wave persists through Thursday; Chance of PM storms Tuesday

  03-07-2018 10:55
  It will remain hot and humid through Thursday with highs in the 90s and a heat index near 100 degrees.  Cooler sea breezes will develop on the shore each day with highs in the 80s.
  There is a chance for a pop up shower or storm both Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons but most of the time will be dry. The biggest risk with any storms will be heavy rain and lightning. The severe weather risk is fairly low at this point. Most 4th of July fireworks displays should be just fine.Showers and storms
  
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• New Britain police search for wanted suspect following domestic incident

  03-07-2018 10:39
  NEW BRITAIN — Police are looking for a suspect following a domestic disturbance incident on Trinity Street.
  Police say they got a call from a women who lived on the first floor of 59 Trinity Street. She said someone had kicked in her front door. Police came and started an investigation.
  Later that night, around 11:45, the same woman called police again for a domestic disturbance with her boyfriend.
  Police say, after investigating further into the suspect, he had an outstanding warrant for
  
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• Thailand cave rescue: Search teams unsure how to free trapped boys

  03-07-2018 10:28
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  THAILAND — The initial relief that greeted the dramatic discovery of the trapped Thai soccer team has given way to concern, as rescuers begin the difficult task of attempting to free the 12 boys and their coach from deep inside the flooded cave network.
  Video shared by the Thai Navy SEALs shows the boys, who were found alive by British divers in the early hours of Monday evening, huddled together on a small patch of dry ground, surrounded by water in a cramped, pitch-black cham
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Norwich police investigating race-related attack on mother and toddler

  03-07-2018 06:01
  NORWICH - A Norwich mother is speaking out after she said she was attacked by a group of people with her toddler in the backseat.
  Thaniyyah Hutchinson, 37, said she was was driving home late Sunday night when five people allegedly ganged up on a black man in the street. She said she called 911 but that is when she said the gang turned on her and her toddler.
  Hutchinson said she saw the black man run away and Norwich police said they are looking for him.
  "They kept hitting him and he kept fallin
  
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• Car Crash Changes Trajectory of Teen Tennis Star’s Life

  03-07-2018 05:37
  
  An Old Saybrook native took a tragedy that derailed his tennis career and turned it into a new lease on life.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Music-Lovers Brave Heat for Concert Series in New Britain

  03-07-2018 05:18
  
  A blast of the 1970s filled Walnut Hill Park in New Britain as the band Vinyl Revolution jammed on stage on Monday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• First Alert: Temps to Climb Into the 90s Again Tuesday

  03-07-2018 05:18
  
  The extreme heat continues and the NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• U.S. Coast Guard welcomes class of 2022

  03-07-2018 05:02
  NEW LONDON -- Monday marked day one for the class of 2022 at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
  “Today is an exhilarating day here at The Coast Guard Academy,” said Captain Rick Wester, Commandant of Cadets. “These new swabs (incoming freshmen), they’re going to be part of our next generation of leadership to ensure The Coast Guard’s readiness, and their training begins right now.”
  Jack Brandt, Battalion Commander, and a current student, said he also remembers his
  
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• Porcello doubles off Scherzer to help Red Sox beat Nationals

  03-07-2018 04:56
  WASHINGTON — Rick Porcello hit a three-run double off former teammate Max Scherzer and allowed two runs in six innings to power the Boston Red Sox to a 4-3 victory over the Washington Nationals in the opener of their three-game interleague series Monday night.
  Porcello’s first major league extra-base hit came in the second inning on an 0-2 pitch after the Nationals intentionally walked Jackie Bradley Jr. to pitch to him. His .156 batting average in just 35 plate appearances made it a
  
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• Facebook: 800K users may have had bug unblock blocked people

  03-07-2018 04:44
  NEW YORK  — Facebook says more than 800,000 users may have been affected by a bug that unblocked people they previously had blocked.
  The company said Monday that the bug was active between May 29 and June 5. While the person who was unblocked by this bug could not see content users shared with their friends, they could have seen things that were posted to a wider audience. Facebook says the problem has been fixed.
  It’s the second software bug in less than a month that the compan
  
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• Trump says he has interviewed 4 candidates for high court

  03-07-2018 04:40
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump interviewed four prospective Supreme Court justices on Monday and had plans to meet with a few more as his White House aggressively mobilizes to select a replacement for retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.
  Eager to build suspense, Trump wouldn’t divulge whom he’s talking to in advance of his big announcement, set for July 9. But he promised that “they are outstanding people. They are really incredible people in so many different ways, aca
  
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• Two brothers charged in rape, murder of 16-year-old Washington state boy

  03-07-2018 04:36
  CHEHALIS, Wash. – Two brothers were charged Monday in the murder of a 16-year-old Washington state boy whose body was found in a shallow grave last week.
  Jonathon Adamson, 21, and Benito Marquez, 16, were charged in Lewis County Superior Court with first-degree murder, first-degree rape, tampering with physical evidence and unlawful disposal of remains in the death of Benjamin Eastman. Prosecutors decided to charge Marquez as an adult. The judge ordered them held on $10 million bail.
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• Missing cruise employee who fell overboard found alive, 21 miles north of Cuba

  03-07-2018 04:35
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  MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard says a cruise ship crew member who was missing for nearly 24 hours was found out in the ocean north of Cuba with no injuries and in stable condition.
  About half an hour after passengers aboard the Norwegian Getaway cruise ship docked in Miami, the U.S. Coast Guard got word that a crewmember who went overboard Saturday afternoon northwest of Cuba had been found alive and well out in the ocean waters by another cruise ship.
  A hotel steward aboard
  
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• Trump-shaped ecstasy pills found during Indiana drug bust

  03-07-2018 04:34
  (Indiana State Police)
  MIAMI COUNTY, Ind. – Authorities seized orange ecstasy pills shaped like President Trump’s head during a large drug bust in Indiana, police announced Friday.
  Indiana State Police said 129 people were arrested over the course of the operation, which was dubbed “Blue Anvil.”
  Nine different departments in north central Indiana teamed up for six days to make the arrests, targeting drug trafficking on Indiana highways.
  “This is the eighth straight
  
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• Woman who ‘showed no form of life’ later found alive in mortuary refrigerator

  03-07-2018 04:32
  They apparently thought she was dead when they placed her inside, but a South African woman was reportedly very much alive when she was recently taken out of a mortuary refrigerator.
  Per Times Select, the woman was one of several people involved in a June 24 vehicular accident and was taken to a morgue after she was declared dead at the scene.
  However, a morgue employee happened to check on the body at some later point and discovered she was, in fact, breathing. The woman was transferred to
  
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• ‘Exposure to feces’ blamed after dozens sickened at neighborhood cookout

  03-07-2018 04:29
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A contagious bacterial infection is to blame after more than a dozen people fell sick the day after they attended a birthday party and cookout, according to North Carolina health officials.
  More than 30 people, all of whom had been spending the afternoon at the same east Charlotte apartment complex, were rushed to area hospitals Sunday, WSOC reports.
  Officials say the food partygoers ate Saturday night is believed to have carried Shigella, a highly contagious bacteria fou
  
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• DeMarcus Cousins to sign with Warriors

  03-07-2018 03:43
  DeMarcus Cousins is heading to the Golden State Warriors, looking for a title.
  Cousins agreed Monday to accept a one-year deal to join the two-time defending NBA champions for $5.3 million. The terms were confirmed to The Associated Press by a person directly involved in the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because the contract has not been signed.
  It’s a low-risk, high-reward move for the Warriors, with Cousins set to return at some point this season once he completes his
  
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• Report: Rajon Rondo Agrees to One-Year Deal With Lakers

  03-07-2018 01:11
  Rajon Rondo is teaming up with LeBron James.
  A person with knowledge of the situation says Rondo has agreed to sign a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers.
  The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been finalized.
  ESPN, which first reported the agreement, said Rondo will make $9 million.
  James and Rondo have gone head-to-head 54 times in their NBA careers, 25 of those coming in the playoffs — the last of those matchups in 2012, whe
  
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• Hundreds of Swabs Sworn-In as CGA Class of 2022

  03-07-2018 01:07
  
  With the raising of their right hand, about 290 swabs were officially sworn in as the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Class of 2022 during the first day of Swab Summer on Monday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Deputies find woman’s keys – not a child – locked in hot car, leading to her arrest

  03-07-2018 01:04
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Emergency crews went into panic mode Saturday when they got a call for a 3-year-old child locked in a parked car, as temperatures soared into the upper 90s in Shelby County, Tennessee.
  "We pulled a number of resources off of the streets to respond to this cry for help that a child had been locked in the car in 90 degree weather," said Shelby County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Earle Farrell.
  Deputies said an urgent emergency response went out, meaning law e
  
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• Paying it forward with ‘Brian Bags’

  03-07-2018 01:03
  WATERTOWN -- Donna Finneran is taking to the streets to honor her late brother, all to help the homeless.
  Brian O'Connell, Donna's twin brother died homeless a year and a half ago and that's when Finneran decided to come up with the idea of "Brian Bags".
  Officially called the Brian O'Connell Homeless Project, the bags are filled with toiletries, snacks, a first aid kit, even gift cards to fast food restaurants.Each Brian Bag provides essentials that anyone living on the street can benefit from.
  
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• Manchester Woman Hits a Roadblock Getting Insurance Coverage

  03-07-2018 01:00
  
  Miofania Garcia was so excited to buy her first car - a shiny red 2013 Nissan Sentra from Medolli Motors in Hartford.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Health Officials Warn About Dangers of Hot Playgrounds

  03-07-2018 00:54
  
  As the heat wave in Connecticut continues, experts are warning parents of the dangers at playgrounds where the temperature of slides and swings can rise to dangerous levels.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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