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• Hundreds rally in support of undocumented immigrant taking sanctuary in New Haven church

  07-09-2018 23:48
  NEW HAVEN — Hundreds of people rallied outside the First and Summerfield United Methodisht church to show support for an undocumented immigrant who has been living in the church since November.
  Nelson Pinos and his family.
  Nelson Piños was born in Ecuador and came to the United States in 1992.
  Historically, churches and other places of worship are considered sensitive locations. While it is not unheard of, ICE does try to avoid making arrests in those locations.
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• Rapper Mac Miller dies at 26, TMZ reports

  07-09-2018 23:14
  LOS ANGELES — Rapper Mac Miller died of an apparent overdose Friday, TMZ reported.
  The website reported that Miller, whose full name is Malcolm James McCormick, was found Friday around noon at his home in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.
  Miller was 26 years old.
  #BREAKING: Rapper Mac Miller Has Died at 26. RIP. https://t.co/F4PKMqQ3rO
  — TMZ (@TMZ) September 7, 2018The rapper first rose to prominence as a teenager in Pittsburgh with a series of mixtapes released in the mid and
  
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• Stream #3 Georgia Vs. #24 South Carolina

  07-09-2018 23:00
  The #3 Georgia Bulldogs head to Columbia to face the #24 South Carolina Gamecocks in an important SEC East match-up.
  
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• School Crossing Guard Struck by Car in Stamford

  07-09-2018 22:41
  
  A school crossing guard was hit by a car in Stamford Friday.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Fantasy Football: Start Andy Dalton, Jamaal Williams And Kenny Stills In Week 1

  07-09-2018 22:32
  Ryan Mayer
  The first week of the NFL season means the first official week of fantasy football too. To help you wade through all the match-ups and which players you should start and sit, we’ve enlisted the help of the good folks at CBSSports.com. Fantasy football experts Jamey Eisenberg, Dave Richard, and Heath Cummings will be here every week to give their thoughts on which guys have the best match-ups and which have well, not as favorable ones. You can check out more from the guys over at
  
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• Much cooler weekend ahead

  07-09-2018 22:30
  From sweating to sweatpants, all in a New England week!
  This weekend will be comfortably cool with a mix of sun and clouds. High temperatures on Saturday will be in the low to mid 70s. At night low temperatures will drop into the low-mid 50s with some upper 40s for our typical cooler spots.
  Sunday will have a fall feel with clouds and some sun, and high temperatures only in the mid 60s – near 70 degrees.
  There is a slight chance for showers late Sunday in southern/southwest CT. But there
  
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• New Haven Police Lt. Accused of Holding Family Hostage Is Suspended

  07-09-2018 22:13
  
  A New Haven police lieutenant who is accused of assaulting his wife and holding his family hostage in their home has been suspended and police said he is facing serious criminal charges.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Teen Forced Girl Into Bathroom Stall, Locked Door: Hamden PD

  07-09-2018 21:55
  
  A 15-year-old boy is accused of grabbing a girl and locking her in a bathroom stall in Hamden Wednesday afternoon.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Teddy Bears Shared With Young Hospital Patients

  07-09-2018 21:41
  
  Hundreds of teddy bears are now in the arms of patients battling cancer at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.
  
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• Study: People Born In September Are More Successful In Life

  07-09-2018 21:39
  (CBS Philly)– Not only is September the most popular month for birthdays in terms of birth rates, but a new study suggests that those born in September may have a tendency to be more successful in life than those born in other months.
  Researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied the relationship between school-starting age and the cognitive development of children between the ages of 6 and 15.
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• Romance novelist accused of murdering her chef husband

  07-09-2018 21:31
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  PORTLAND, Ore. – The wife of a chef shot to death in Portland earlier this year was arrested and made her first court appearance Thursday.
  Nancy Crampton Brophy was taken into custody at her Beaverton home Wednesday night in connection to her husband’s death.
  The 68-year-old woman, who is a romance novelist, is facing one charge of murder with a firearm constituting domestic violence, according to the district attorney’s office.
  Her husband, 63-year-old Daniel Broph
  
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• U.S. Men’s Soccer Team to Take on Peru at Rentschler Field

  07-09-2018 21:30
  
  The U.S. men’s soccer team is coming to Connecticut and will take on Peru at Rentschler Field in East Hartford.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• 5 sets of twins in one freshmen class providing plenty of laughs, confusion

  07-09-2018 21:26
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The curriculum at Rockhurst High School isn't what's giving students and staff headaches. The headache comes as they try to tell each set of the five groups of twin brothers apart.
  "We leave it up to the imagination to figure it out, so we like to give everybody a challenge," Connor Green, a freshman at Rockhurst, told WDAF.
  The freshmen class has five sets of twin brothers: the Greens, the Garretts, the Tootles, the Warns and the Joyces.
  Five sets of twins at Rockhurst High.
  
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• Ohio teacher suspended for giving test with questions about incest

  07-09-2018 21:23
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  HILLIARD, Ohio – An Ohio teacher has been suspended after giving students an online “Moral Foundations Test” that included questions about incest.
  The teacher gave students the 36-question, online quiz that is designed to rank a person’s moral or political leaning, according to WSYX.
  Most of the questions are innocuous, but a few dealt with incest.
  A reporter read some of the questions to parents – and got shocked responses.
  “Using both a cond
  
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• Paralyzed man finds art success after accident

  07-09-2018 21:06
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  Marcus Thomas slowly dips his brush into one of the many droplets of paint laid out in front of his easel. With his hands resting on his chair, he carefully puts brush to canvas and, with a precise touch, paints a feather on a bird.
  Every brush stroke is controlled by his mouth. Thomas is paralyzed from the neck down.
  A final run
  Thomas didn’t grow up painting. The avid outdoorsman and his future wife, Anne, spent their youth playing sports, bike-riding and skiing together.
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• Charges Dropped Against Man Who Recorded Cop’s ‘Trigger Happy’ Comment

  07-09-2018 20:50
  
  Charges have been dropped against the man who recorded a Hartford police officer when he warned a group of young people not to flee or fight because he was "trigger happy," according to the State’s Attorney...Photo Credit: Morgan Raposa/Facebook
  
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• NFL Picks – Week 1: Can The Texans Finally Get The Better Of The Patriots At Gillette?

  07-09-2018 20:37
  Ryan Mayer
  Game 1 of 256 in the NFL regular season is in the books, with the Philadelphia Eagles outlasting the Atlanta Falcons 18-12 in a penalty-filled, slugfest of a game Thursday night. Now, the attention turns to the weekend slate of games, and there are some big ones on the docket. To get an expert’s perspective, we checked in with CBS 11 Dallas’s sports anchor Bill Jones, who broke down four of the biggest games of the weekend and picked the winners. Let’s dive in.
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• ‘Arthur Ashe: A Life’ Excerpt From New Book By Raymond Arsenault

  07-09-2018 20:36
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  Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. One of the nation’s leading civil rights historians, he is the author of several acclaimed and prize-winning books, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice and The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America.His new book Arthur Ashe: A
  
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• High schooler won’t let prosthetic leg slow him down on football field

  07-09-2018 20:29
  CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. - Football is taken very seriously at L.C. Bird High School in Chesterfield, Virginia.
  The young men on the Skyhawks roster come out to practice each day knowing what is expected of them and what they expect of themselves. It's an unwritten code for a program used to winning a lot each year.
  Carlos Lee, 15, is starting his first year playing on the line with the Skyhawk junior varsity team.
  You will notice something different about Carlos the moment he steps on the fiel
  
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• Sheryl Underwood On Her Dream Guest For ‘The Talk’: “Don’t You Think Me And Tom Cruise As A Couple Would Be Amazing?”

  07-09-2018 18:34
  The Talk returns for its ninth season on Monday, September 10th at 2pm ET (1pm PT/CT), only on CBS. Sheryl Underwood has been a co-host on the show for eight seasons and has also served in the U.S. armed forces, received multiple master’s degrees and hosts her own syndicated radio show.
  In the midst of her busy schedule, Underwood sat down with CBS Local’s Matt Weiss to discuss The Talk‘s special bond, the new season’s guests and her plan to become Tom Cruise’s next
  
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• Police ID New Haven Bus Driver Accused of Leaving Special Needs Students on Bus

  07-09-2018 17:50
  
  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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• Memorial Service Held for South Windsor Officer

  07-09-2018 17:44
  
  A memorial service was held Friday morning for Sergeant Matthew Mainieri, a 20-year-veteran of the South Windsor police department.Photo Credit: South Windsor Police Department
  
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• Literally A One-Horse Race: New York Raceway Witnesses A Sure Thing

  07-09-2018 17:37
  YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Sports bettors know that there’s no such thing as a sure thing.
  But heading into Thursday’s race at Yonkers Raceway there was one, as a horse that was winless in 15 career races was virtually guaranteed to win her 16th.
  CBS2’s Steve Overmyer was on hand to explain why.
  “(She is) not the most talented, but whenever she goes on the track she’ll give you what she’s got,” driver Jim Marhon said.
  So why is this horse 0-15?
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• Police Presence in Old Saybrook Connected to White Powder Incidents

  07-09-2018 17:28
  
  There is a heavy police presence on Main Street in Old Saybrook, employees have been evacuated and members of the state police bomb squad said this is related to incidents involving white powder over the...Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• Woman Mistakes Dynamite For Candle During Power Outage, Suffers Severe Injuries

  07-09-2018 17:23
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) – Authorities say a Connecticut woman mistook a stick of dynamite for a candle during a power outage and suffered severe hand injuries.
  Assistant Bridgeport Fire Chief Michael Caldaroni says the woman was looking to light a candle in her home at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday after the power went out during a storm.
  The dynamite went off in the woman’s hand.
  One of her children called 911 and she was taken to the hospital. No one else was injured.
  Caldaroni says one
  
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• Obama slams Republicans: Trump is ‘capitalizing on resentment’

  07-09-2018 17:17
  CHICAGO — Former President Barack Obama offered his most pointed critique to date of President Donald Trump, delivering a lengthy and direct indictment Friday of the last two years in American politics by arguing the President is “capitalizing on resentment that politicians have been fanning for years.”
  The speech before more than a thousand students at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign was a preview of the message Obama will carry into the midterm elections. But it
  
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• Obama returns to political spotlight with Illinois speech previewing midterms

  07-09-2018 17:17
  CHICAGO — President Barack Obama will step back into the political fray Friday, delivering a speech that will preview his 2018 midterm election message and provide his most pointed rebuke to date of President Donald Trump.
  One theme of Obama’s speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be how the history of the United States has always been progress and “backlash to progress,” and the former President will argue the country is currently in one of those
  
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• Woman Hospitalized After Lighting Dynamite Rather Than Candle

  07-09-2018 17:15
  
  A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night.Photo Credit: DoingItLocal
  
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• Missouri college to strip athletes of Nike branding over Kaepernick controversy

  07-09-2018 17:13
  Nike uniforms are vestimenta non grata at the College of the Ozarks after the company’s Colin Kaepernick ad campaign.
  The private Christian college in Missouri announced Thursday that its athletic teams will no longer buy Nike uniforms and any it has now will be removed, the Kansas City Star reports.
  In a statement, college president Jerry C. Davis accused Nike execs of “promoting an attitude of division and disrespect toward America” with the Kaepernick ca
  
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• Weed, whiskey, Tesla and a flamethrower: Elon Musk meets Joe Rogan

  07-09-2018 17:07
  There was whiskey, a joint, a Samurai sword and long conversations about artificial intelligence and the end of the universe.
  Just another installment in the extraordinary saga of Elon Musk, the billionaire leader of two major companies that are trying to change the world.
  The CEO of electric-car maker Tesla and rocket startup SpaceX spent more than two-and-a-half hours Thursday night talking to podcast host Joe Rogan about what it’s like inside his head (“a never-ending explos
  
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• Charlie Rose Files Motion To Dismiss Sexual Harassment Lawsuit, Says Women Are ‘Exploiting The #MeToo Movement’

  07-09-2018 17:06
  (CBS Local/CBS News)– Former “CBS This Morning” anchor Charlie Rose filed a motion just after midnight Friday seeking the dismissal of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by three women.
  The lawsuit was filed May 4 by Katherine Brooks Harris, Sydney McNeal and Yuqing Wei, who were all hired either by CBS News or for Rose’s PBS show when they were in their early 20s. The women claimed they endured “predatory behavior” from Rose. The lawsuit accuses Ro
  
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• Silver Alert issued for ‘endangered’ Greenwich man

  07-09-2018 17:01
  GREENWICH — Greenwich Police are looking for an ‘endangered’ missing man named Nordin Farez. Police say that a family member reported that Farez might be suicidal.
  Police say he was reported missing Thursday night. He may be driving a brown Honda CR-V with Connecticut registration plate AM97955.
  Farez was last seen by a neighbor on September 4th at his Greenwich home.
  He’s about 6’2″ with brown  eyes and black hair.
  If anyone has seen Farez, they are aske
  
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• Person in Federal Custody After Incident at Old Saybrook Police Department

  07-09-2018 16:49
  
  One person is in federal custody after an incident at police headquarters in Old Saybrook.Photo Credit: NBCConnecticut.com
  
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• SportsLine’s Top Weekend Picks: NFL Football Time Again

  07-09-2018 16:42
  San Francisco 49ers vs. Minnesota VikingsSunday, September 9, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
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  The 49ers were a different team last year when Jimmy Garoppolo took over at QB. But that was 2017, and this is 2018. Teams now have enough footage to game-plan the heck out of him, and that starts Sunday against the NFL’s most-dominant defense. Minnesota’s offense is loaded at the skill positions, and San Francisco doesn’t have the tools to fully exploit the Vikings’ big weakness
  
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• Tickets for 'Hamilton' at the Bushnell Go on Sale Tomorrow

  07-09-2018 16:40
  
  The national tour of the hit Broadway show "Hamilton: An American Musical" is set to make its Connecticut debut this December and tickets will be going on sale to the general public tomorrow morning.Photo Credit: Getty Images
  
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• Off-duty Texas officer entered wrong apartment, shot and killed resident

  07-09-2018 16:38
  DALLAS, Texas – Dallas police are investigating a deadly shooting involving an off-duty police officer.
  According to news release, the officer arrived home around 10 p.m. Thursday after working a full shift. Police said she was in full uniform when she walked into an apartment she thought was her own and fired her weapon at the man inside.
  The @DallasPD says an off-duty officer entered what she believed was her own apartment at @SouthSideFlatsD but it was not. The person inside was shot a
  
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• Squirrel Knocks Out Power, Closing West Hartford School

  07-09-2018 16:36
  
  Whiting Lane Elementary School in West Hartford is closed today because of a power failure in the neighborhood, according to the school’s website.Photo Credit: Strngr
  
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• Trumbull Man Shoots Neighbor Who Broke Into His Home: Police

  07-09-2018 16:04
  
  A 72-year-old man shot an 18-year-old neighbor in Trumbull after the teen forced his way into the man’s Shelton Road home and charged at him, according to police.Photo Credit: NBC Connecticut
  
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• Bridgeport woman blows up hand mistaking dynamite for a candle

  07-09-2018 15:48
  BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport police say a woman was seriously injured after a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in her hand.
  Police say that after the family at 1248 Lindley Street lost power during a thunderstorm Thursday night, they tried going to Home Depot for emergency lights. Home Depot was closed.
  The family then remembered that when they bought the house two years prior, there were a couple of, what they thought, candles in the basement by the previous owners of the home.
  The 30-year-ol
  
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• 37,000 women sign letter calling on Pope Francis to answer questions about abuse

  07-09-2018 14:46
  CHICAGO, Ill. — In an open letter last week, a former top Catholic Church official made a stunning allegation against Pope Francis - accusing him of ignoring claims of sexual assault and abuse by now-removed Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
  Pope Francis replied to Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's letter by saying: "I will not say a single word on this."
  Now another letter is in the news. Signed by thousands of women of the faith, it urges the pope to answer questions surrounding
  
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• ‘Who’s going to be my reason to get up in the morning?’: Oklahoma teen searches for a foster family

  07-09-2018 14:44
  OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok - A well-spoken teenager from Oklahoma is searching for a new foster family. Zach is only 13, yet very in tune with where he's at in life and where he wants to be. He's easygoing and has big dreams for his future, and is building a new life for himself.
  "I like to read, sometimes sing,” he told KFOR. "I also like to draw sometimes. I'm not the best but, you know, when I get older, I do want to be a cartoonist."
  Zach is on a mission to find a family.
  "So, me, necessarily,
  
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• Cops detain black teen riding with white grandmother after he’s mistaken for robber

  07-09-2018 14:43
  WAUWATOSA, Wis. – Officers detained a black teenager riding in a car with his white grandmother over the Labor Day weekend after police say they got a report of a robbery in progress.
  Wauwatosa police called it a misunderstanding, but the family's attorney, Joy Bertrand, said the young man's rights were violated.
  During a traffic stop around noon on Sept. 2 near Burleigh Street and Mayfair Road, dash cam video shows Wauwatosa police officers place the 18-year-old man in handcuffs, an
  
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• Hurricane Florence is forecast to strengthen again and threaten US East Coast next week

  07-09-2018 14:40
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  HARTFORD  — Hurricane Florence has weakened to a tropical storm but will likely strengthen again into a major hurricane and could threaten the US East Coast by next week.
  On Wednesday, Florence became the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season, with maximum sustained winds peaking at 130 mph, making it a Category 4 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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• Quinnipiac student dead after bike crash

  07-09-2018 13:56
  HAMDEN — The President of Quinnipiac University said they lost one of their own Wednesday night after a bicycle crash.
  President Judy Olian sent a letter out from her office, saying that 23-year-old Anthony Massaro of Wethersfield was a major in philosophy, and the son of Linda Massaro, associate vice president, and campaign director in the Officer of Development and Alumni Affairs. President Olian say funeral arrangements are pending.
  President Olian said in a statement:
  This is a terribl
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: Time to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office

  07-09-2018 12:48
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  WASHINGTON DC — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seizing on an explosive op-ed from an anonymous administration official, said Thursday that it’s time to use constitutional powers to remove President Donald Trump office if top officials don’t think he can do the job.
  “If senior administration officials think the President of the United States is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th Amendment,” Warren told CNN. “The Cons
  
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• Homeless veteran will get the $400,000 owed to him from GoFundMe campaign

  07-09-2018 12:28
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  PHILADELPHIA — Johnny Bobbitt Jr., a homeless Philadelphia ex-Marine, will get the money owed to him from a GoFundMe campaign that raised more than $400,000 for him, his attorney Chris Fallon tells CNN.
  “We reached an agreement today with GoFundMe and they have agreed to make sure he will be made whole,” Fallon says.
  In a statement, the company said it would back the money raised:
  “…Our platform is backed by the GoFundMe Guarantee, which means that in t
  
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• Roy Moore is suing Sacha Baron Cohen for $95 million over the comedian’s ‘Who is America?’ prank

  07-09-2018 12:05
  Failed Republican US Senate candidate Roy Moore has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen after he fell for a prank on the actor’s TV show months after his campaign ended.
  The Alabama politician appeared on July 29 on the actor’s controversial Showtime series, “Who is America?”
  On the satirical program, Cohen spins off a concept he originated with “Da Ali G Show” by appearing as characters in interview segments and skits with s
  
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• Cincinnati shooting could’ve been a ‘bloodbath.’ Suspect had more than 200 rounds of ammunition, police say

  07-09-2018 11:29
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  CINCINNATI — Body camera and surveillance video could give police some clues about the shooting that left four people dead, including the suspect, at a busy skyscraper in downtown Cincinnati.
  At least three men were killed and two other people were injured when a gunman opened fire at the Fifth Third Center in the city’s popular Fountain Square just as the workday began on Thursday. When four police officers arrived, they shot the suspect through glass windows and killed
  
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• Cooler, less humid Friday; Fall-like this weekend

  07-09-2018 11:12
  It already feels a little better out there with slowly falling humidity today and temperatures that'll be much cooler than the past few days!
  Temperatures today will top out in the 70s, about 20 degrees cooler than the record-tying heat we had yesterday. We reached 96 at Bradley Airport and 92 at Bridgeport. Both of those tied record highs.
  It'll stay mostly cloudy for much of the day, with a few scattered showers around at times. Late afternoon brings a better chance to see some prolonged suns
  
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• Police ID Victim Killed in Waterbury Shooting

  07-09-2018 05:06
  
  A man was killed in a shooting in Waterbury early Sunday morning.Police said officers responded to the area of 91 Berkeley Ave. around 3:30 a.m. There they found the victim, identified as 28-year-old...
  
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