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• Health care mergers in doubt as Amazon looms large

  05-08-2018 23:46
  1. Health care isn’t so healthy: The fates of two giant health care mergers are suddenly in question.
  Drug store chain CVS wants to buy insurer Aetna, but the California Insurance Commissioner wants the Justice Department to block the $69 billion deal, citing concerns that prices will go up and competition will decrease.
  Another insurer, Cigna, hopes to buy pharmacy benefits manger Express Scripts for $67 billion. However, there were reports last week that activist investor
  
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• Demi Lovato speaks out for first time since apparent overdose

  05-08-2018 23:46
  Pop star Demi Lovato addressed fans for the first time since her apparent drug overdose last month.
  “I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction,” the 25-year-old singer wrote on her Instagram account Sunday. “What I’ve learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet.”
  Lovato was rushed to the hospital on July 24, a source close to her family told
  
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• Active serviceman’s dog found safe after escaping foster home 2 months ago

  05-08-2018 23:13
  Denver, CO (KDVR) -- David Powell will never forget the feeling of losing something so precious.
  “It was rough,” Powell said. “Here’s somebody that put their dogs into my care, so that they could go off to Iraq for us, and I lost his dog.”
  Powell was fostering two miniature schnauzer puppies for Herman Haynie, going on his fifth tour to Iraq, through People + Animals = Companions Together (PACT). Almost two months ago, one of those puppies, Lola, slipped through hi
  
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• 11 emaciated children are rescued from a filthy and heavily armed compound

  05-08-2018 22:52
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  The 11 children were so famished, the sheriff said, they “looked like third-world country refugees.”
  But they weren’t found in an underdeveloped country. They were discovered in a remote New Mexico compound where an underground trailer kept them hidden from the outside world.
  “The only food we saw were a few potatoes and a box of rice in the filthy trailer,” Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.
  “But what was most surprising and heartbreaking was
  
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• Randy Moss attends his Hall of Fame ceremony wearing a tie that honors African Americans killed by police

  05-08-2018 22:45
  Former NFL wide receiver Randy Moss used his wardrobe to make a powerful statement at his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction, wearing a necktie bearing the names of African Americans killed by police or while in police custody.
  Moss’s black tie with gold lettering listed more than 10 names, including Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland, and Alton Sterling.
  Rice, 12, was shot and killed in 2014 by a Cleveland, Ohio officer who mistook his toy gun for a real weapon. Garner d
  
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• Institute decries ‘grotesque’ vandalism to Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s childhood home

  05-08-2018 22:33
  Vandals spray-painted hot-pink pejoratives on the childhood home of author, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, according to the institute set up in his honor.
  The Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania called the damage “grotesque” and asked investigators “to treat this incident with maximum severity with maximum responsibility.”
  It is “not just an attack on Elie Wiesel’s memory, but on all the victims of the Holoc
  
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• I-91 in Meriden Reopens After Multi-Vehicle Crash

  05-08-2018 21:44
  
  Interstate-91 in Meriden has reopened after a multi-vehicle crash closed part of it on Sunday afternoon.Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto, File
  
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• East Haven Police Work to ID Burglary Suspect

  05-08-2018 19:09
  
  Police in East Haven are working to identify a man who they say burglarized a local business on Sunday morning.Photo Credit: East Haven Police
  
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• Behind the Scenes With Yard Goats Manager Warren Schaeffer

  05-08-2018 17:44
  
  In this NBC Connecticut exclusive, we mic'd up ‘Goats skipper Warren Schaeffer to get a behind the scenes look and get to know the first year manager along the way.
  
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• Operations Resume at Bradley International Airport After Water Main Break

  05-08-2018 15:47
  
  Operations at Bradley International Airport are back to normal after a water main break on Saturday night.Photo Credit: Stringr.com
  
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• In the Senate, the August recess will be missed

  05-08-2018 15:30
  WASHINGTON — If you thought Congress was already polarized, wait and see what happens when dozens of senators are stuck in Washington together for most of swampy August.
  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, canceled the usual monthlong recess this year for his chamber, a tradition that spans decades and was born out of lawmakers’ efforts to ensure they’d have a set time they could travel home every legislative calendar.
  Instead — after a group of more j
  
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• Patrick Stewart to reprise ‘Star Trek’ role in new series

  05-08-2018 14:22
  NEW YORK — Patrick Stewart is boldly going where he’s been before — “Star Trek.”
  CBS All Access said Saturday that Stewart has been tapped to headline a new “Star Trek” series, reprising his “Star Trek: The Next Generation” character, Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
  The new series is not a “Next Generation” reboot but will tell the story of the next chapter of Picard’s life. No title or air date was revealed.
  Stewart headlined his
  
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• Humidity takes a backseat for a couple of days. Heat wave on the way!

  05-08-2018 14:21
  A beautiful August day is on tap for today with drier conditions and lower humidity outside too!
  Monday and Tuesday will feature temperatures in the 90s with Monday being the warmest day. Humidity will add to the heat making it feel much warmer on Tuesday. Make sure to drink plenty of water. We will also be in the midst of a heat wave by Tuesday as well
  Showers enter the picture until Wednesday. After those showers Wednesday, we will see a slight cool-down with sunny skies sticking around throug
  
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• Report: Church leaders pressured victims, cops over abuse

  05-08-2018 13:35
  Watch VideoHARRISBURG, Pa. — Church leaders were more interested in preventing scandal than protecting children. That’s the finding of a grand jury investigating clergy sex abuse in six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses according to a court filing. The report also says in some cases leaders discouraged victims from going to police, or pressured law enforcement officials to end or avoid investigations.
  The grand jury’s full, nearly 900-page, report is expected to be released
  
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• Hot weather forces 4 French nuclear reactors to shut down

  05-08-2018 13:15
  PARIS — As Europe struggles through a major heatwave, the French energy company EDF says it has halted a fourth nuclear reactor, this time one at the country’s oldest nuclear plant at Fessenheim in eastern France.
  In a statement, EDT said the Fessenheim nuclear reactor was temporarily shut down Saturday.
  Since Thursday, four French nuclear reactors in three power plants near the Rhine and the Rhone Rivers, including Fessenheim, have had to be temporarily shut down. EDF said the decis
  
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• MGM Springfield touts year-round events ahead of opening

  05-08-2018 12:50
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Officials at a soon-to-open Massachusetts casino resort say there will be year-round entertainment and activities at the $960 million resort.
  MGM Springfield officials said Wednesday the offerings at the large outdoor plaza will include activities ranging from concerts to ice skating to pop-up art to outdoor yoga. The Republican of Springfield reports the casino plaza is located between two historic buildings in downtown Springfield.
  MGM says it plans to offer events f
  
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• Fights break out between groups of demonstrators at Oregon rally

  05-08-2018 11:38
  Watch VideoPORTLAND, Ore. — Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed “flash bang” devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters.
  Four people were arrested during the protests, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement Saturday night. Officers also seized “multiple weapons throughout the day,” police said.
  A reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive was bloodied when he was stru
  
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• Water main break at Bradley International Airport causes evacuation

  05-08-2018 02:53
  WINDSOR LOCKS — A water main break has caused police and fire to respond to Bradley International Airport Saturday evening.
  Officials responded to the airport at 7:36 p.m. and initially evacuated it. State police said that the airport is no longer evacuated.
  The airport had no power and emergency lighting was activated.
  The Bradley International Airport Fire Department is on scene as well as state police.
  
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• Tornadoes Touch Down in Massachusetts, Connecticut

  05-08-2018 02:33
  
  Two tornadoes touched down Saturday in New England and caused havoc over the areas.This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Venezuela official: Explosion was attempted attack on Maduro

  05-08-2018 02:23
  CARACAS, Venezuela — Assailants tried to attack Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with drone-like devices armed with explosives that detonated just as the socialist leader was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers, the government said Saturday.
  Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said Maduro was safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured in the apparent attack.
  “At exactly 5:41 p.m. in the afternoon several explosions were heard,” Rodriguez said in a live add
  
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• Red Sox beat Yankees in 3rd straight, 4-1; lead East by 8½

  05-08-2018 01:19
  BOSTON — Nathan Eovaldi pitched eight dominant innings and closer Craig Kimbrel held on during a shaky ninth to help the Boston Red Sox beat the second-place Yankees for the third game in a row and expand their lead in the AL East to season-high 8½ games with a 4-1 victory on Saturday.
  One night after Rick Porcello threw an 86-pitch, one-hit complete game, Eovaldi shut out the Yankees on three hits in sending them to their season-high fourth straight loss.
  Down to their last strike,
  
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• 3 arrested in New London for banking fraud

  05-08-2018 00:46
  Eric Arauj, 21 of The Bronx Photo Credit: New London Police
  NEW LONDON — Police arrested three people on two separate occasions  Friday in connection with bank fraud.
  Officers said they responded to the Bank of America on South Frontage Road in the morning and in the afternoon for people attempting to withdraw large sums of cash from fraudulent bank accounts.
  The first incident around 9 a.m. and resulted in a foot chase as one of the suspects tried to run away from police. Mike Paulin
  
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