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• Leaders Kick Off Maritime Heritage Festival in New London

  06-09-2018 23:58
  
  More than 60,000 people are expected to fill New London for the annual Maritime Heritage Festival this week.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Man Accused in Connection With South Windsor Officer's Death Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter

  06-09-2018 23:19
  
  The South Carolina man accused in connection with the death of a South Windsor police officer has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.Photo Credit: South Windsor Police Department / Georgetown County Sheriff's Office
  
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• New Haven, Hartford White Powder Incidents May Be Connected

  06-09-2018 22:54
  
  Bomb threats emailed to administrators of five buildings in New Haven Thursday and white powder sent to several buildings in Hartford yesterday might be connected, according to Rick Fontana, New Haven’s director...
  
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• New Haven Bus Driver Left Special Needs Students on Bus: PD

  06-09-2018 22:44
  
  New Haven police have arrested a school bus driver after two Wilbur Cross High School special needs students were left on the bus.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• School Bus Hits Fallen Tree on I-84 in Farmington

  06-09-2018 22:41
  
  A school bus hit a fallen tree on I-84 West in Farmington on Thursday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• More Baby Boomers Turning To Marijuana, Study Says

  06-09-2018 22:11
  (CNN) — Seniors are increasingly passing the pipe. About 9% of US adults between the ages of 50 and 64 have used marijuana at least once during the survey year, while 3% of those over 65 have done so, new research finds.
  For middle-age adults, the percentage of cannabis users has doubled over nearly a decade, according to the study, published Thursday in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Older adults have seen a seven-fold increase in that period.
  Though marijuana use is incre
  
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• New Jersey Tourist Tells Disney Greeters He’s There To “Blow The Place Up”

  06-09-2018 21:51
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (CBSMiami/AP) — A tourist from New Jersey is accused of making a bomb threat at a Walt Disney World resort.
  When Gregory Lazarchick, 56, visited the Saratoga Springs Resort last July, he was asked by employees how his day was going. Lazarchick reportedly told them that he had been sent by al-Qaida him to “blow the place up.” He then added that he was joking.
  Taking the matter as no joke, resort employees contacted the Orange County Sheriff’s Of
  
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• Jersey Tourist Tells Disney Greeters He’s There To “Blow The Place Up”

  06-09-2018 21:51
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (CBSMiami/AP) — A tourist from New Jersey is accused of making a bomb threat at a Walt Disney World resort.
  When Gregory Lazarchick, 56, visited the Saratoga Springs Resort last July, he was asked by employees how his day was going. Lazarchick reportedly told them that he had been sent by al-Qaida him to “blow the place up.” He then added that he was joking.
  Taking the matter as no joke, resort employees contacted the Orange County Sheriff’s Of
  
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• Bruce Arians: ‘The Work Is Not Going Anywhere, Don’t Miss Your Family’

  06-09-2018 21:04
  Ryan Mayer
  A new NFL season is upon us with teams returning to the field starting Thursday and running through Monday. While the return of football brings excitement for fans, players and coaching staffs alike, one thing that can often go neglected this time of the year, particularly for coaches, is family. The pressure to be successful can cause coaching staffs to work long hours every day throughout the course of the season, in order to try and achieve the requisite level of success.
  Former NF
  
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• Actor Burt Reynolds Dies At 82

  06-09-2018 21:04
  FLORIDA (CBS Local/CNN) —Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century ago, died Thursday, according to his agent Todd Eisner.
  He was 82. The Georgia native, whose easy-going charms and handsome looks drew prominent roles in films such as “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Boogie Nights,” suffered a cardiac arrest, Eisner said.
  An iconic Hollywood sex symbol in front of the camera, Reynolds also tried his directorial hand be
  
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• White Powder Scares Possibly Have Vermont Connection

  06-09-2018 19:36
  
  Police in Burlington, Vt. said the person being questioned in connection with white powder scares in Hartford may also have sent a series of threatening emails to officials in Vermont.
  
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• Trent Green: ‘Interested To See How Guys Like J.J. Watt, OBJ Come Back From Injury’

  06-09-2018 19:23
  Ryan Mayer
  The first week of the NFL regular season is finally here. The defending-champion Philadelphia Eagles kick things off in front of their home fans against the Atlanta Falcons tonight before the rest of the teams take the field on Sunday and Monday.
  With a new beginning comes familiar questions. Who are the Super Bowl contenders? Which rookies will make the biggest impact? Who is going to take home the MVP award? In search of answers to some of these questions, we asked former NFL quarte
  
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• Police ID Victim of Crash Who Might Have Been in Suffield Tobacco Farm for Days

  06-09-2018 18:46
  
  Police have identified the victim of a deadly motorcycle crash in Suffield as 50-year-old David Gould, of Southwick, Massachusetts and said he might have been in a tobacco field for several days before...Photo Credit: Suffield Police Department
  
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• Houston Nutt: ‘The Quarterbacks In The SEC Stood Out In Week 1’

  06-09-2018 18:43
  Ryan Mayer
  The first week of the college football season is in the books, which means some fanbases are happy and others are panicking. Overreactions aside, there’s plenty of season left, and while Week 2 doesn’t have as many star-power match-ups on the docket, there’s a big game coming on the SEC on CBS. The game of the week features a battle in the East division, with the Georgia Bulldogs making the trip to Columbia, South Carolina for a date with Will Muschamp and the Gameco
  
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• Investigation Into White Powder Incidents Finds Baby Powder

  06-09-2018 18:37
  
  The substance that prompted investigations into four white powder incidents in Hartford Wednesday was baby powder, according to Hartford fire chief Reginald Freeman.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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• Rollover Crash Closes I-91 South On-Ramp in Wallingford

  06-09-2018 17:46
  
  A rollover crash has closed the exit 13 southbound on-ramp from the Wharton Brook Connector to Interstate 91 in Wallingford, according to state police, and they expect it to be closed for around six hours during...Photo Credit: Connecticut State Police
  
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• WWE Superstar Big Show On Dramatic Weight Loss: ‘It’s John Cena’s Fault’

  06-09-2018 17:19
  By Chuck Carroll
  What began as a simple conversation backstage turned into one of the most remarkable transformations in sports entertainment history. This isn’t about a clean-cut, wholesome good guy suddenly getting in touch with his dark side. Nor, is it about an evil villain disrobing a dark cloak after finally seeing the light. In a fictitious world, where larger-than-life colorful gladiators do battle inside of a 20′ x 20′ Coliseum, such changes are to be expected. But thi
  
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• Crash Closes Part of Route 1 in Madison

  06-09-2018 17:11
  
  A crash has closed part of Route 1 in Madison near Nathans Lane.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• VIDEO: Woman Falls Through Ceiling After Asking To Use Restaurant Bathroom

  06-09-2018 15:21
  GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (CBSLA) — Diners in Orange County received an unexpected dinner guest when a woman came crashing through the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant.
  A person recorded the moment the woman fell through the ceiling tiles of Sabroso! Mexican Grill in Garden Grove Sunday. The restaurant said she asked to use the bathroom and an employee obliged. She went into the bathroom and was there for a long time, causing a line to form. A short while later, she broke through one of the
  
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• School Resource Officer On Leave For Activating Taser To Wake Sleeping Student

  06-09-2018 15:13
  SMITHVILLE, Ohio (AP) – Police in northeast Ohio have placed a school resource officer on unpaid leave for activating a Taser to wake up a sleeping student.
  WEWS-TV reports the incident happened Aug. 30 at Liberty Preparatory School in Smithville. Police say Officer Maryssa Boskoski was called to a classroom when a sleeping student wouldn’t wake up for a teacher or principal.
  Smithville Police Chief Howard Funk says Boskoski removed the cartridge from the Taser and “arced&rdquo
  
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• 74-Year-Old Lebanon Woman Reported Missing

  06-09-2018 14:29
  
  Police have issued a Silver Alert for a 74-year-old Lebanon woman who has been reported missing.Photo Credit: Silver Alert
  
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• Hartford Police Searching For Hit and Run Driver

  06-09-2018 12:14
  
  Hartford police are searching for a driver who hit a pedestrian and then left the scene late Wednesday night.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• India’s top court decriminalizes gay sex in landmark ruling

  06-09-2018 11:36
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  DELHI, India  — India’s Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation.
  The court announced the landmark verdict in Delhi on Thursday, as jubilant crowds cheered and rights activists hugged one another, overcome with emotion.
  Section 377, an archaic law imposed during British rule that penalized intercourse “against the order of nature,” had carried a maximum sent
  
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• Influenza may be cause of sickness for handful of crew, passengers on Emirates flight to JFK

  06-09-2018 11:14
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  NEW YORK  — About 10 people who were aboard an international flight that landed Wednesday at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport are being evaluated at a hospital and tested for respiratory illness, officials said.
  The cause of the illness on Emirates Flight 203 is “probably influenza,” New York City acting Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot told reporters.
  She said doctors will know more when they get the results of respiratory tests done on the three
  
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• Hot and humid Thursday, showers and storms in the afternoon

  06-09-2018 10:47
  Thursday will be day three in the 90s, making this an official September heat wave. But it's the last day of heat and humidity before cooler, less humid air returns Friday into this weekend.
  Thursday will be even hotter and more humid (if you can believe it). A Heat Advisory is in effect with the combination of heat and humidity making it feel like 95-100 for some!
  In the afternoon showers and thunderstorms will fire up as a cold front approaches (mainly 3 PM - 8 PM). There's a low chance some
  
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• Griebel, Lamont spark in first gubernatorial debate

  06-09-2018 06:27
  WEST HARTFORD – Two of Connecticut’s potential governors met inside St. joseph’s University Wednesday night for a gubernatorial debate.
  Republican candidate Bob Stefanowski wasn’t one of them.
  Democratic candidate Ned Lamont and Independent candidate Oz Griebel took the stage to have an hour-long discussion on the issues.
  “Oz is ready to talk,” said Lamont. “We had a substantive discussion on the real issues confronting the state of Connecticut. And if
  
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• Make-A-Wish Connecticut: Sikorsky send spirits soaring for 6-year old boy

  06-09-2018 06:23
  STRATFORD  --  Six-year-old William Beyer has been fighting a rare heart defect his entire life.
  The first grader from Collegeville, Pennsylvania, received a heart transplant at just 10-months-old and has been in and out of the hospital ever since.
  When his family got in touch with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, William put them to work.
  His dream? To fly in a helicopter and see where aircrafts are made.
  William's wish recently came true.
  Make-A-Wish Connecticut arranged for William and
  
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• Kim Kardashian at White House for clemency review session

  06-09-2018 06:23
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  Kim Kardashian West arrived at the White House on Wednesday to discuss sentencing reform and clemency issues with White House officials, two White House officials told CNN.
  The reality TV star and entrepreneur was not expected to meet with President Donald Trump, one White House official said, though the plans could change.
  Kardashian West, who successfully lobbied Trump earlier this summer to commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a nonviolent drug offender serving a
  
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• Hartford Police Investigate Fatal Pedestrian-Involved Crash

  06-09-2018 05:43
  
  Hartford police are investigating a fatal pedestrian-involved crash in the city's North End late Wednesday.
  
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• Stefanowski to Urge Feds to Help With Crumbling Foundations

  06-09-2018 05:41
  
  Republican nominee for governor Bob Stefanowski made his first visit to a home with a crumbling foundation Wednesday.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Insurers Justify Health Coverage Rate Hikes

  06-09-2018 05:37
  
  The two insurers remaining on Access Health Connecticut told state regulators Wednesday that their proposed rate increases have to do with changes at the federal level to requirements for health coverage.
  
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• Man Being Questioned in Connection With White Powder Scare

  06-09-2018 05:30
  
  Authorities responded to multiple white powder incidents in Hartford Wednesday afternoon and the US Attorney's Office confirmed a man is being questioned in connection with these incidents.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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• Naugatuck Family Hasn't Been Heard From Since August

  06-09-2018 05:21
  
  Naugatuck police are trying to locate a family that hasn’t been heard from since Aug. 11.Photo Credit: Naugatuck Police Department
  
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• Pedestrian in critical condition after car crash in Hartford

  06-09-2018 05:20
  HARTFORD —  Hartford Police say a person is in critical condition, with life-threatening injuries, after a car crash at Albany Avenue and Garden Street.
  Initially, police reported that the pedestrian was dead, but have revised that statement. They say that at the time of the incident, medical crews could not find a pulse or vital signs.
  The road is closed where the incident happened. Detective sand the crime scene division are investigating.
  This is a developing story.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Terryville dentist penalized for work on child speaks out

  06-09-2018 04:55
  HARTFORD --  A Connecticut dentist accused of performing unnecessary dental work on a young girl has been disciplined by state regulators.
  The State Dental Commission voted Wednesday to sanction Ammar Idlibi with a $10,000 fine and three years of probation, among other measures.
  The Terryville dentist installed eight crowns on the teeth of a 3-year-old girl who had come in for just one crown in 2016.
  Martin Ungar, a commissioner, called it a "clear case of overtreatment." Peter Katz, anoth
  
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• Suspects Rob, Kidnap Man at Gunpoint: Hartford Police

  06-09-2018 04:10
  
  Hartford police have several people accused of robbing a man at gunpoint then forcing him to drive them around and holding him against his will.
  
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• Naugatuck police searching for missing family

  06-09-2018 03:27
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  Missing AttachmentNAUGATUCK —  Police have issued a Silver Alert for a child and a teenager Wednesday night.
  Naugatuck Police Department said they received a report from the Naugatuck school system that they could not locate students previously enrolled in the Naugatuck School System last school year.
  “At approximately 9:30 AM administrators from the Naugatuck school system went to a residence listed as the students home a
  
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• Black ‘hair’ on your tongue? Here’s what that could be

  06-09-2018 02:48
  ST. LOUIS – When Dr. Yasir Hamad heard that a patient’s tongue had turned black, he decided he needed to see it for himself.
  “It was the typical textbook case” of a condition known as black hairy tongue, said Hamad, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Hamad published the case Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  Despite the name, black hairy tongue isn’t hair at all. It refer
  
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• Cancer Survivor Shares Story Ahead of 2018 Closer to Free

  06-09-2018 00:48
  
  Noemi Kearns is a mother, business owner and cancer survivor.“I know that I’m sitting here today talking to you 100 percent due to the care that I had at Smilow,” Kearns told NBC...
  
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• Lawrence + Memorial NICU Hosts Four Sets of Twins

  06-09-2018 00:34
  
  Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London is hosting eight special little guests in their NICU this week.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• NBC CT Responds: Hearing Aid No Miracle For Wolcott Woman

  06-09-2018 00:33
  
  A Wolcott woman reached out to NBC Connecticut Responds when after dozens of appointments she discovered her hearing aid wasn’t providing the miracle she'd hoped for when she bought it.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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