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• Mom Fighting Deportation to Bangladesh Granted Stay: Family

  22-08-2018 23:52
  
  A New Haven mother who was set to be deported to Bangladesh on Thursday has been granted a stay of deportation, according to her family.Photo Credit: NBC ConnecticutThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• Carpet Upgrade Hits a Snag for Ellington Family

  22-08-2018 23:50
  
  Michael Conaci and his family were excited to move into their new home in Ellington. As a house warming gift, his mother-in-law gave the couple new carpet for their bedroom and hallway.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Red-Tailed Hawk Found Injured by Metal Pellet in Meriden

  22-08-2018 22:45
  
  Officers from Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police are looking for information after a red-tailed hawk was found with a broken ulna bone and a metal pellet in its wing in Meriden on Tuesday.Photo Credit: Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police
  
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• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Ending After Season 12 In 2019

  22-08-2018 21:20
  (CBS Local) — This is it, “Big Bang Theory” fans. CBS has announced the top-rated comedy series will end its run in May 2019.
  It still will rank as the longest-running multi-camera series in television history, with 12 seasons and a record-breaking 279 episodes, CBS said in a statement.
  In a joint statement, Warner Bros. Television, CBS and Chuck Lorre Productions said, “We are forever grateful to our fans for their support of The Big Bang Theory during the
  
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• Oprah Introduces Her Own Frozen Pizza With A Cauliflower Crust

  22-08-2018 21:18
  CHICAGO, Ill. (CBS Local) – After breaking into the food industry with a line of soup and side dishes, Oprah Winfrey has decided to start tossing dough and create her own line of frozen pizzas. The new treat isn’t your classic frozen slice, these pizzas come with a cauliflower-based crust.
  Oprah’s O, That’s Good! line of food products is reportedly trying to bring a “nutritious twist” to family meals.
  “Pizza is a favorite, f
  
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• Chick-fil-A Opens A New Restaurant Right Next To Another Chick-fil-A

  22-08-2018 21:13
  MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. (CBS Local) – People going to lunch in Central Florida may think they’re seeing double, but it’s no mirage. Chick-fil-A has opened a new restaurant next to another Chick-fil-A.
  On Florida’s Merritt Island, the popular fast food chicken chain operates a store in the food court of Merritt Square Mall. That fact apparently didn’t stop Chick-fil-A from deciding to place a new standalone restaurant in the parking lot of the mall, less
  
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• Nationals Trades A Surprise In Midst Of Playoff Chase

  22-08-2018 20:29
  By Matt Citak
  Heading into the 2018 MLB season, the Washington Nationals had extremely lofty goals.
  Washington dominated the National League East last season, essentially clinching the division title about halfway through the year. They would go on to take the division crown by an astounding 20 games, but fell to the Chicago Cubs, 3-2, in the NLDS.
  With the same core of players returning this season, albeit with new manager Dave Martinez now leading the club, the Nationals were expecting to, at
  
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• FIRST ALERT: Strong Storms Possible Today

  22-08-2018 19:49
  
  The NBC Connecticut meteorologists have issued a First Alert for the threat of strong to severe storms today.Photo Credit: NBC ConnecticutThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
  
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• NASA Finds ‘Water Ice’ On The Surface Of The Moon

  22-08-2018 18:52
  (CBS Local/CNET) – There is definitely ice on the moon.
  Scientists have long believed that water ice could exist in the ever-dark recesses at the moon’s poles and that belief has finally been confirmed in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Aug. 20.
  The lunar poles are not exposed to sunlight, leaving them dark and incredibly cold — well below freezing. In fact, the temperatures within these areas were usually in excess of -260
  
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• ‘Survival Of The Laziest’ May Be Key To Evolution, Study Suggests

  22-08-2018 18:27
  LAWRENCE, Kan. (CBS Local) – Scientists used to believe evolution was all about the “survival of the fittest.” A new study is suggesting that the key to survival may actually be laziness.
  The study, which looked at five million years worth of fossils and other marine species, examined the metabolic rates of nearly 300 organisms on Earth. Researchers from the University of Kansas say a species with a historically higher metabolism actually went extinct more often.
  “We
  
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• Nick Faldo On The Northern Trust: ‘A Bit Of Danger Lurking’

  22-08-2018 18:12
  By Dan Reardon
  Now in its 11th year, the FedExCup Playoffs has evolved into the kind of end-of-the-season series Commissioner Tim Finchem envisioned at the outset. The roster of courses and locations has grown over the years. The formula has been tweaked to make it both understandable and competitive.
  It has had great champions like Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods, Jordan Spieth and current champion, Justin Thomas. It has had unexpected winners like Bill Haas and Billy Horschel.
  Next year it slides a
  
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• Study: Low-Carb Diet Linked To Early Death

  22-08-2018 17:34
  (CBS Local) – Carb lovers can now rejoice!
  A new study suggests cutting way back on carbs could be bad for you. Researchers found that moderate carb consumption is healthier.
  The study is from The Lancet Public Health and it found that people who get about half of their total calories from carbohydrates, may be at a lower risk of early death compared to those who follow either very high or very low carb diets.
  The study examined over 15,000 people from the Atherosc
  
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• 2 Transported After Car and Medical Transport Van Collide in Hartford

  22-08-2018 16:43
  
  Two people were transported to the hospital after a car and an American Medical Response van collided in Hartford Wednesday morning.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Water Main Break Closes Museum at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill

  22-08-2018 15:27
  
  The museum at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill is closed after a water main break, but the trails remain open.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Police: 3 suspects charged, involved with dumping a man’s body in New London

  22-08-2018 15:16
  NEW LONDON — Back in May, New London Police say a man name Lebro Mei was found dead in the lot of 120 Cedar Grove Avenue.
  Now, New London Police say they’ve arrested three suspects in connection with the dumping of Mei’s body.
  Detectives say that William Dietz, 57, Gabrielle Fox, 38, and William Garrett, 54, without regard, dropped Mei’s body in the lot of the Cedar Grove address after he overdosed and suffered medical issues.
  Deitz and Fox are from New London, and Garret
  
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• 2 Arrested, Woman Sought After Man’s Body is Dumped in New London

  22-08-2018 15:08
  
  New London police have arrested two men and they are searching for a woman after the body of a man who overdosed was found abandoned in a parking lot in May.Photo Credit: New London Police
  
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• Truck Rollover Closed I-84 in Waterbury

  22-08-2018 13:44
  
  Interstate 84 in Waterbury was closed early Wednesday morning after a tractor-trailer carrying corrosive material rolled over on the highway.Photo Credit: Connecticut Department of Transportation
  
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• New Haven School Board Approves 24 Layoffs

  22-08-2018 12:51
  
  The New Haven Board of Education has approved the layoffs of 24 employees, a number less than originally anticipated as the district continues to manage a budget shortage.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Community Leaders Seek Solutions After Overdose Emergency

  22-08-2018 12:47
  
  The Downtown Wooster Square community members sat down to talk about solutions Tuesday after more than 100 drug overdoses in just a few days at the New Haven Green.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Country singer Gretchen Wilson arrested at Bradley International Airport

  22-08-2018 11:50
  WINDSOR LOCKS — Country music singer Gretchen Wilson was arrested by state police after an incident at Bradley International Airport.
  Police say they were called to the airport on a call there was a ‘disturbance’ on an incoming flight. When troopers tried interviewing her on the tarmac, police say she became ‘belligerent’. Wilson was charged with Breach of Peace.
  Wilson’s bond was set at $1,000 and she’s expected in court Wednesday.
  
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• Mollie Tibbetts case mystified police until a security camera offered a key clue

  22-08-2018 11:25
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  IOWA CITY — Investigators spoke to hundreds of people in the search for clues about Mollie Tibbetts’ disappearance, but weeks after she vanished it was security camera footage that finally gave them a first glimpse of the man accused of killing her.
  The 20-year-old student went missing on July 18 in Brooklyn, Iowa, after going for a jog. Authorities charged Cristhian Bahena Rivera, 24, with first-degree murder charges on Tuesday.
  Here’s how investigators a
  
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• Very humid, scattered showers and storms Wednesday

  22-08-2018 10:51
  It's an active morning in the weather department, with heavy downpours out there. Have the umbrella nearby and check Fox61 for the latest radar.
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• Supporters of Bangladeshi woman facing deportation go on hunger strike in Hartford

  22-08-2018 05:51
  HARTFORD  — Relatives and other supporters of an immigrant from Bangladesh are on a 43-hour hunger strike in Hartford to protest her deportation.
  Federal authorities have ordered Salma Sikandar to return to Bangladesh on Thursday.
  Relatives and other immigrants rallied outside the federal courthouse in Hartford on Tuesday to urge federal officials to allow Sikandar to stay at her New Haven home while she tries to reopen her immigration case.
  Her U.S.-born teenage son, Samir Mahmud, sa
  
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• States blast Trump administration coal plan, mull lawsuits

  22-08-2018 05:49
  HARTFORD — States with a history of fighting air pollution generated by coal-fired power plants on Tuesday criticized a move by President Donald Trump’s administration to scale back federal restrictions on emissions, with some threatening court challenges.
  Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan was among those who pledged to “take legal action to ensure the federal government does its job” to protect the environment and people’s health. She warned the Republican adm
  
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• Ex-prison nurse from Montville who had sex with inmate gets probation

  22-08-2018 05:47
  NEW LONDON — A former Connecticut prison nurse who had a sexual relationship with an inmate has been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor sexual assault.
  Dana Gibson, 46, of Montville, accepted a plea deal Tuesday in New London Superior Court. She had been charged with felony sexual assault.
  An arrest warrant affidavit says Gibson and the 36-year-old male inmate had about 20 sexual encounters while Gibson worked in the medical unit at the Corrigan-Radgow
  
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• Edible Arrangements to move headquarters from Connecticut to Atlanta

  22-08-2018 05:45
  WALLINGFORD — The fruit bouquet company Edible Arrangements is moving its corporate headquarters from Connecticut to Georgia.
  Chief Executive Officer Mike Rotondo announced Tuesday that the headquarters will move from the New Haven suburb of Wallingford to Sandy Springs near Atlanta.
  Edible Arrangements has about 130 employees in Wallingford and plans to maintain a small office there with about 20 workers. The company opened the Sandy Springs location in March and plans to complete the he
  
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• Homeless advocate arrested after Connecticut overdoses

  22-08-2018 05:43
  NEW HAVEN, Conn.  — Federal authorities have charged an advocate for the homeless with distributing synthetic marijuana in New Haven, Connecticut, just days after the drug caused more than 100 overdoses in the city.
  The New Haven Register reports 47-year-old Quentin Staggers was the third man arrested on drug charges following last week’s overdoses, none of which were fatal. Staggers appeared Tuesday in federal court, where a judge ordered him detained.
  A spokesman for
  
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• Vernon Holds Public Hearing on Crumbling Foundations Crisis

  22-08-2018 05:37
  
  Homeowners from several northeastern Connecticut towns threw they support behind applying for a federal grant that would pay for homeowners to have their concrete tested at a meeting in Vernon Tuesday night.
  
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• Child Struck by Car in Bridgeport

  22-08-2018 04:51
  
  A child was taken to the hospital after being struck by a car Tuesday night.
  
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• Men face 1,460 counts of sex with animals in ‘one of the most extreme’ abuse cases DA has seen

  22-08-2018 02:04
  CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. – Three Pennsylvania men face a slew of charges that includes more than 1,400 counts of having sex with animals.
  Terry Wallace, 41; Marc Measnikoff, 34; and Matthew Brubaker, 32; are all facing 1,460 counts of sexual intercourse with animals, according to the Clearfield District Attorney's Office. The three have also been charged with animal cruelty, endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors.
  State police said in an affidavit that they received in
  
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• Woman posed as out-of-state deputy to help boyfriend escape jail, officials say

  22-08-2018 02:03
  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Arkansas authorities have arrested a Fayetteville woman accused of helping her boyfriend escape from the county jail by posing as a deputy from California.
  Maxine Feldstein, 30, was arrested Friday and faces charges of forgery, accomplice to third-degree escape and criminal impersonation.
  Feldstein’s boyfriend, 23-year-old Andrew Lowe, was being held July 27 at the Washington County Detention Center with a hold for criminal impersonation out of Ventura, Calif., a
  
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• Security camera captures man sneaking into college students’ apartment, watching woman sleep

  22-08-2018 02:01
  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Police have arrested an Arkansas man after he allegedly admitted to entering a woman's apartment and masturbating while she slept.
  Michael Irvin, 18, was arrested Monday in connection with two counts of residential burglary, voyeurism, and theft of property, according to KFSM.
  Irvin told Fayetteville police he entered a woman's apartment at The Vue and stood over her, "fighting urges to not hurt her," according to an arrest report.
  He said he exposed himself and mastu
  
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• FDA extends some EpiPen expiration dates due to shortage

  22-08-2018 02:00
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  The US Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it is extending the expiration date for certain EpiPens.
  EpiPens are auto-injectors that deliver epinephrine to help treat life-threatening allergic reactions. The expiration extension comes in response to an ongoing shortage of the medications, which were added to the FDA’s drug shortage list in May.
  “We are doing everything we can to help mitigate shortages of these products, especially
  
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• Suspects now officially linked to K2 overdoses

  22-08-2018 01:20
  NEW HAVEN - Both of the men arrested by New Haven police in connection with the over 100 overdoses related to the synthetic drug K2,  have now officially been charged with the sale and distribution of the poison on the New Haven Green.
  John Parker, 53, of New Haven, has been charged with possession of controlled substances and the sale of hallucinogens - both with the intent to sell/ distribute. Felix Melendez, 37, also of New Haven, was charged with possession of controlled substances and
  
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• New Haven public schools say they are safer now

  22-08-2018 01:14
  NEW HAVEN - When schools open in New Haven next Thursday, the leaders of New Haven's Public Schools are confident they will be safer than ever before.
  After the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, the City of New Haven began revising their school emergency response protocols, including those involving an active shooter and fake fire drills.
  “In many of the attacks that we’ve seen around the country, they been using fire alarms to get people to come outside and then attack,” said New
  
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• Edible Arrangements to Move Headquarters to Atlanta

  22-08-2018 01:06
  
  Edible Arrangements is moving its corporate headquarters from Wallingford, Connecticut to the Atlanta, Georgia area by the end of the year, according to a news release.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• 11-Year-Old Struck By Falling Tree Speaks About Ordeal

  22-08-2018 00:58
  
  Christopher Rodriguez was hospitalized on his 11th birthday when a tree slated for removal came crashing down on him at Hartford's Goodwin Park.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Family speaks out after dog was killed at Windsor Locks doggy daycare

  22-08-2018 00:40
  WINDSOR LOCKS  -- A couple is grieving the loss of their beloved pet.
  But the circumstances surrounding his death at a Windsor Locks doggie daycare are the subject of a police investigation.
  It’s a dilemma many pet owners face. What do you do with your pet when you travel?
  If you don’t have someone to watch the dog, you may decide to board them, assuming your dog will be there to greet you when you return. For the Rodriguez family, that wasn’t the case.
  Ana and Arturo Rod
  
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• Yankees slugger Stanton says he’ll enjoy Miami homecoming

  22-08-2018 00:31
  MIAMI  — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton says it’s weird but good to be back in Miami for a two-game series.
  He says he harbors no hard feelings about the way his time with the Marlins ended after eight seasons.
  Former Yankees shortstop and new Marlins CEO Derek Jeter rebooted the woebegone Miami franchise, trading away several big contracts for prospects with the goal of becoming competitive in a few years. Stanton, coming off a 59-homer MVP season, wanted no part of a rebuil
  
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• Rally Held for Mom Fighting Deportation to Bangladesh

  22-08-2018 00:06
  
  A rally was held in Hartford Tuesday for a New Haven mother set to be deported to Bangladesh in two days.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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