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• Man Admits to Stealing Chainsaw, Tools From House in Hartford: Police

  26-08-2018 20:34
  
  Hartford Police have arrested a man who they say admitted to stealing items from a home on Saturday.Photo Credit: Hartford Police
  
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• Neil Simon, Broadway’s master of comedy, dies at 91

  26-08-2018 18:54
  NEW YORK — Playwright Neil Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as “The Odd Couple,” ”Barefoot in the Park” and his “Brighton Beach” trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, has died. He was 91.
  Simon died early Sunday of complications from pneumonia surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, said Bill Evans, his longtime friend and the Shubert Organization director of media relations.
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• 75-Year-Old Man Dies After Crashing Into Parked Car in Southington

  26-08-2018 17:06
  
  A man has died after he crashed into a parked car in Southington on Saturday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• 10-Year-Old Drowns During Birthday Party in Waterbury

  26-08-2018 16:55
  
  Police are investigating an accidental drowning in Waterbury after a child was found at the bottom of a pool on Saturday night.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Vandal Smashes Bristol Store's Windows 2 Nights in a Row

  26-08-2018 16:26
  
  A Bristol store is offering a reward for information after its windows were smashed on back-to-back nights.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Former NFA Employee Accused of Sexually Assaulting Students

  26-08-2018 16:23
  
  Police in Norwich are investigating alleged sexual assaults involving a former Norwich Free Academy employee and a student or students who attended the school.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Gallery owner to return to court in spoon sculpture case

  26-08-2018 16:22
  STAMFORD — An art gallery owner arrested for helping place a steel sculpture of a bent drug spoon at Purdue Pharma’s Connecticut headquarters in protest of the opioid epidemic is set to learn whether he will receive a probation program.
  Fernando Alvarez is due in Stamford Superior Court on Monday. He was charged with misdemeanor obstructing free passage and applied for accelerated rehabilitation, which would result in the charge being erased from his record if he successfully complet
  
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• Waterford police looking for couple that dined, then dashed

  26-08-2018 16:13
  WATERFORD – Police are looking for a couple of “dine-and-dash” thieves who didn’t bother paying the bill at a local restaurant.
  The two ordered $98.40 worth of food and drinks at the Sunset Rib Company on River Street in Waterford, then left the restaurant before paying the bill. The two people left in a dark colored vehicle.
  Security cameras captured the duo. Police ask that if you recognize them or have any information, please contact Officer Troy Gelinas #71 at tgelina
  
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• Waterbury police: 10 year old drowns in pool

  26-08-2018 15:45
  WATERBURY – Police say they are investigating how a 10-year-old girl drowned in a residential swimming pool last night.The child, who has not yet been identified, drowned in a pool on Pierpont Road. That’s on the east side of the city, not far from Crosby High School.The child was taken to St. Mary’s hospital Saturday night, but did not survive.This is a developing story; we’ll have more information as it becomes available.
  
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• Aryna Sabalenka wins Connecticut Open over Suarez Navarro

  26-08-2018 14:53
  NEW HAVEN — Aryna Sabalenka has added her name to a growing list of tennis players who have earned breakthrough wins at The Connecticut Open.
  The 20-year-old from Belarus beat Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-1, 6-4 on Saturday to win the final WTA tuneup before the U.S. Open.
  Sabalenka, whose ranking goes from 25th to 20th in the world, becomes the second straight player to earn her first premier title in New Haven, following Daria Gavrilova, who won her first WTA tournament here last year
  
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• The heat and humidity increase over the next few days

  26-08-2018 14:35
  One more day before we get back into the hot stuff. Sunday looks quite nice, with temps in the mid 80s and comfortable conditions. The humidity in combination with a strengthening high pressure center will bring big time heat to the area for the start of the work week. Highs near 90 and brutal humidity will make it feel like 100 outside. Thankfully, we wont jeopardize any records, but it will still feel like the middle of Summer.
  Thursday we will see an end to the heat and the humidity as a cold
  
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• Pope hears the wounds of Ireland’s abused, and vows to speak

  26-08-2018 14:26
  KNOCK, Ireland — Pope Francis visited a famous shrine Sunday in Ireland and was to celebrate a Mass dedicated to families after an emotional meeting with Irish victims of clerical sex abuse and those wrenched away from their mothers in forced adoptions demanded by Catholic authorities.
  Francis arrived Sunday in Knock, the Marian shrine in northwestern Ireland, where he prayed and blessed thousands of jubilant Irish faithful, who gathered in raincoats under clouds.
  On Saturday, the first da
  
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• Driver arrested crash that injured 5 people in New London

  26-08-2018 05:44
  NEW LONDON — Police arrested a Ledyard man on DUI charges after they say he injured several people and crashed into five cars Saturday afternoon.
  Police said around 4 p.m. they received multiple reports of a white jeep Wrangler crashing into other vehicles without stopping in the area of Truman St., Shaw St., and Upper Bank St. Police said five people were transported to L+M Hospital as a result of the accident. None of the sustained injuries appeared to be life threatening.
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• One person dead after Southington crash

  26-08-2018 04:54
  SOUTHINGTON — One person is dead after a crash in Southington Saturday afternoon.
  Officials said the driver went off the road on North Main Street near Darling Street and struck a car around 5:30 p.m.
  Police said the driver died in the crash.
  The accident is being investigated.
  
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• McCain remembered by the man who ran his campaign for president in the state

  26-08-2018 04:29
  HARTFORD -- People across the country are reacting to Senator John McCain’s death, including here in Connecticut.  McCain visited the state many times over the years.
  His service and love of country capturing the admiration of one local man. Ben Davol was the state director for John McCain’s presidential campaign.
  'He`s a real American hero... in the truest sense... and he`s the last one to say that. John McCain was in solitary confinement for 2 ½ years and once a day wa
  
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• This intriguing NASA image shows all the dust, fires and storms in the air in one day

  26-08-2018 03:02
  All around you, there are tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols. When you zoom out and look at the world as a whole, these aerosols can paint a picture of what’s going on across the earth’s atmosphere, from weather patterns to natural and man-made events.
  That sort of picture is what you can see here in these composite images from NASA, representing the world as it was on August 23. The pretty clouds of blue, purple and red are representations of different kinds of a
  
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• John McCain, senator and former presidential candidate, dies at 81

  26-08-2018 02:25
  Whenever America was in a fight during his long lifetime, John McCain was in the thick of it.
  McCain, who has died at the age of 81, was a naval bomber pilot, prisoner of war, conservative maverick, giant of the Senate, twice-defeated presidential candidate and an abrasive American hero with a twinkle in his eye.
  The Arizonan warrior politician, who survived plane crashes, several bouts of skin cancer and brushes with political oblivion, often seemed to be perpetually waging a race against time
  
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• NFA Employee Accused of Sexually Assaulting Students

  26-08-2018 02:20
  
  Police in Norwich are investigating alleged sexual assaults involving a Norwich Free Academy employee and a student or students who attended the school.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• $3.8 billion paid in lawsuits and claims over sex abuse allegations in Catholic Church since 1980s, group says

  26-08-2018 01:55
  Since the 1980s, the Catholic Church in the United States and its insurance companies have paid out more than $3.8 billion in lawsuits and claims involving allegations of clerical sexual abuse, according to a monitoring group.
  BishopAccountability, a non-profit that tracks allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, says the payouts involved cases filed by more than 8,600 survivors who were allegedly sexually abused by an undisclosed number of clergy since the 1950s.
  Spokesman Terry McKiernan t
  
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• Chris Watts case: ‘There’s some secrets there’

  26-08-2018 01:46
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  DENVER, Colo. — Denise Mowder has some theories as to why a man who appeared to be a doting father and husband could do what Chris Watts is accused of doing.
  The associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at MSU Denver and former prosecutor has worked with thousands of victims of family violence, according to KMGH.
  She said case studies of fathers killing their children show the motive is most often rage, but there are other reasons.
  “Most were done — 6
  
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• Woman posing as deputy arrested for helping boyfriend escape Arkansas jail

  26-08-2018 01:45
  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Deputies have arrested an Arkansas woman who helped her boyfriend escape from a county jail last month by posing as a sheriff's deputy from Ventura County, according to KFSM.
  Fayetteville resident Maxine Feldstein, 30, was arrested on Aug. 17 on suspicion of forgery, being an accomplice to third-degree escape and criminal impersonation.
  Maxine Feldstein, left, and Nicholas Lowe are seen in photos released last week by the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
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• Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair

  26-08-2018 01:44
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  A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.
  On Friday, Marc Held — the attorney for Dino Sajudin, the former doorman — said his client had been released from his contract with AMI, the parent comp
  
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• Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair

  26-08-2018 01:44
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  A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk about a contract he entered with American Media Inc. that had prohibited him from discussing the matter with anyone, according to his attorney.
  On Friday, Marc Held — the attorney for Dino Sajudin, the former doorman — said his client had been released from his contract with AMI, the parent comp
  
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• Man tells rescuers he spent a day in Delaware sewer system

  26-08-2018 01:38
  WILMINGTON, Del.  — Fire officials in Delaware say a man they pulled from a sewer system told rescuers he’d spent at least a day stuck underground.
  The News Journal reports roughly 30 firefighters and paramedics were called to a Wilmington intersection around 1:45 p.m. Saturday after a passer-by reported hearing a voice coming from a nearby sewer grate.
  Michael Schaal is a battalion chief with the city’s fire department. He tells the newspaper two rescuers were lowered int
  
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• DNC changes superdelegate rules in presidential nomination process

  26-08-2018 01:36
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  Democrats on Saturday voted to chip away at the role party insiders play in choosing the party’s presidential nominee in one of the biggest changes to the process in decades.
  The move to limit the influence of “superdelegates” at the party’s convention ahead of the 2020 presidential primaries ended an emotional and tumultuous two-year effort born out of the divisive 2016 contest between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
  
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• Bristol pawn shop owners say their business was vandalized two nights in a row

  26-08-2018 01:29
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  The owners of Silas Deane Pawn on Farmington Avenue said surveillance video shows someone smashing the windows early Friday morning. The owners replaced t
  
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• Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet,’ as Lane weakens to tropical storm

  26-08-2018 00:51
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  Hawaii residents breathed a sigh of relief as Hurricane Lane disintegrated into a tropical storm, but authorities warned that its thrashing winds and relentless rain will remain a threat into the weekend.
  Lane dumped more than 40 inches of rain in some parts of the Big Island over several days, sending residents fleeing life-threatening flash flooding and landslides.
  Lane’s threat came as Maui residents also battled two brush fires, including one that caused evacuations in a re
  
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• Walt Disney World workers land deal for $15 minimum wage

  26-08-2018 00:30
  Disney reached a deal with unions that would hike the minimum wage for Walt Disney World Resort workers to $15 an hour by 2021, signaling an end to contract negotiations that have dragged on for nearly a year.
  The agreement, which covers thousands of park and resort employees, would increase starting wages by 50%. Workers would also get the $1,000 bonuses they were promised earlier this year.
  Marathon negotiations carried into the early morning this week before a deal was reached late Friday nig
  
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• Connecticut chapter of Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation running to find a cure

  26-08-2018 00:26
  HARTFORD -- The 2018 Eversource Hartford Marathon is just around the corner on October 13th, and the race is so much more than just a chance to run!
  The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation was named one of the 20 official charity partners for this year's race. The organization has been helping those who suffer from the diseases for more than 25 years in hopes of one day finding a cure.
  Crohn's and colitis, collectively known as Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, or IBD, are chronic, often debilitating dig
  
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• Serena OK with French Open despite catsuit ban

  26-08-2018 00:24
  NEW YORK  — Serena Williams isn’t worried about a dress code at the French Open.
  Her skin-tight black catsuit won’t be welcome, but Williams had already put it back in the closet.
  She no longer needs a full-length outfit for health reasons and won’t be wearing it again at the U.S. Open.Besides, for someone with Williams’ style, going back to the same look would be a fashion faux pas.
  “When it comes to fashion, you don’t want to be a repeat offender,
  
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• Functioning Apple computer built in 1970s up for auction

  26-08-2018 00:17
  BOSTON (AP) — A piece of computer history that helped launch a trillion dollar company is hitting the auction block.
  A fully functioning Apple-1 being auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction in September is one of only 60 or so remaining of the original 200 that were designed and built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 and 1977.
  It was restored to its original, operational state by Apple expert Corey Cohen. The system was operated without fault for approximately eight hours in a test. I
  
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• Man accused in Connecticut trafficking ring pleads guilty

  26-08-2018 00:15
  DANBURY  — A Connecticut man accused of recruiting young intellectually disabled and mentally ill men into a sex trafficking ring was sentenced to 4 ½-years in prison Friday after pleading guilty.
  The News-Times in Danbury reports that 52-year-old Robert King, of Danbury, accepted a conspiracy charge in exchange for the prison sentence. He initially was charged with trafficking in persons, promoting prostitution and tampering with a witness. The plea agreement also calls for 35
  
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• ‘Monsignor Meth’ fails drug test, may go back to prison

  26-08-2018 00:09
  HARTFORD — Court records say a former Roman Catholic priest dubbed “Monsignor Meth” because he ran a meth distribution ring has failed a drug test and may have to return to prison.
  The Hartford Courant reports that court documents show Former Bridgeport Diocese Monsignor Kevin Wallin recently tested positive for amphetamine at the facility where he’s been receiving treatment.
  Probation officer Jose Vargas is urging the court to suspend Wallin’s supervised release.
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