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Bad bridges carry hidden costs
hen big bridges collapse they make news, but it generally escapes notice when decrepit spans cause prices to go up on almost anything that gets to the store by ...
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Middletown student honored for leadership
MIDDLETOWN >> A city student at Wentworth Institute of Technology was honored for academic achievement and community involvement, school officials said Wednesday.Faith Gagliardi, a senior majoring in business management at the Boston-based institution, was one of six students to earn top honors in the "Leadership Category" at the institution this year. Gagliardi clinched the ...
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Photos 3 little liliger cubs cavort at Russian zoo
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, Zita, a liger - half-lioness, half-tiger - carries her one month-old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub's father is a lion, Sam. (AP Photo /Ilnar ...
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PTR Industries heading to South Carolina
Horry County began courting PTR in April within hours of the firm’s declaration that it would leave Connecticut because of the gun control measure adopted by Gov. Dannel Malloy and the General Assembly. One of its legislators visited Connecticut to try to lure PTR and other gun makers to the ...
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Whitey Bulgers Defense Hit Man A Self-Serving Liar
James 'Whitey' BulgerBoston mobster and fugitive James "Whitey" Bulger worked as an FBI informant throughout the 1980s, providing information about Boston's Angiulo crime family while evading arrest. Bulger had been on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitive list and the agency had offered a $2-million reward for his ...
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Connecticut judge with New Haven ties faces disciplinary hearing
HARTFORD - A disciplinary panel is holding a public hearing on whether a Connecticut judge issued child welfare rulings late in violation of state law and ethics rules.The state Judicial Review Council is hearing the case against Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield on Wednesday.The council has found probable cause that Cofield violated state law and the Code of Judicial Conduct by missing ...
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FBI search finds no evidence of Jimmy Hoffas remains
Members of an FBI evidence response team look over an area being cleared in Oakland Township, Mich., Tuesday, June 18, 2013 where officials continue the search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A search of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the ...
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1 dead another injured in Arizona bridge collapse
MESA, Ariz. - Firefighters say a man has died and another hospitalized after a section of the steel-and-wood support for an elevated ramp under construction fell in Mesa.The cause is unknown, and the accident is under investigation, says Doug Nintzel, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation.Authorities say the collapse Wednesday occurred near Loop 202 and Warner Road.The Mesa ...
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How Juneteenth became the most popular annual celebration of black emancipation
Deborah Smith and her husband Kuma watch festivities at a Juneteenth celebration at Leimert Park in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Reed ...
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United Technologies claims court fine for alleged fraud will cut profits
HARTFORD - United Technologies Corp. says a federal court ordering it to pay $473 million plus interest to compensate for alleged fraud in its sale of fighter jet engines will cut revenue and profit.Judge Thomas M. Rose of the U.S. Southern District Court of Ohio issued the order Monday. The Hartford, Conn., aerospace company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it will appeal the order. ...
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Discrimination against pregnant workers rising report says
Pregnant women paint their bellies before an event to celebrate "Healthy Maternity Week" in Lima May 30, 2013. About 300 pregnant women participated in celebrations organized by a local hospital seeking to create awareness of healthcare for expectant mothers. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil WASHINGTON - Thirty-five years after Congress passed a federal law to protect pregnant women ...
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Trying to build a bomb that wont blow up
In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, a Pakistani dealer holds fertilizer containing ammonium nitrate in Multan, Pakistan. The U.S. government believes that most of the bombs killing its troops in Afghanistan are made with a chemical fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan and American officials have launched an intense and so far unsuccessful push for regulation. Pentagon scientists are now ...
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White House NASA want help hunting asteroids
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. WASHINGTON - The White House and NASA on Tuesday will ask the public for help finding asteroids that potentially could slam into the Earth with catastrophic consequences.Citing planetary defense, the administration has ...
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Poll shows more Westerners opposed to drilling on public lands
This photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, near Frederick, Colo., shows an oil pump jack working on a property across from a subdivision. (AP Photo/Ed ...
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NSA Prism disclosures All the user-data requests from techs biggest names
This undated US government photo shows an aerial view of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Md. The Obama administration on Thursday defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information "a critical tool in protecting the nation from terrorist threats." (AP Photo/US Government) Technology's ...
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Health care questions answers about CAP customer service
Where do you go if you have questions about your new goverment health plan? Who do you call? About half of Americans say they don't know how the Affordable Care Act will affect them. Four in 10 think it has been repealed or overturned, or they are unsure where it stands. So chances are good that when the major provisions kick in next year, including online health insurance marketplaces ...
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Colorados worst wildfire steals homes history from hundreds
Motorists stop along Interquest Parkway in Colorado Springs, Colo. Tuesday, June 11, 2013, to watch the advance of a wildfire burning in Black Forest. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Mark Reis) MAGS OUT About a year ago, I wrote a column recounting a conversation with my brother Jim Egolf about evacuations in case of forest fire. We compared notes about my experiences being evacuated ...
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Disciplinary panel holds hearing on Conn. judge
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A disciplinary panel is holding a public hearing on whether a Connecticut judge issued child welfare rulings late in violation of state law and ethics ...
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UPDATE 2-Tesla recalls some Model S cars due to seat-mount defect
Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:31am EDT By Bernie Woodall June 19 (Reuters) - Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc will recall 1,228 of its 2013 Model S cars manufactured between May 10 and June 8 due to a defect in the mounting bracket of the rear seat. The fix will cost Tesla about $150,000 during the second quarter, company spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks said. Tesla will inspect and reinforce the bracket ...
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Amazing footage of the cicada life cycle the emergence the mating the overpowering sound
An adult cicada ovipositing into an apple twig is shown in this undated handout photo by Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station released to Reuters on May 2, 2013. This year heralds the springtime emergence of billions of so-called 17-year periodical cicadas, with their distinctive black bodies, buggy red eyes, and orange-veined wings, along a roughly 900-mile stretch from northern Georgia ...
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Mass. teens sentence suspended in traffic death
GREENFIELD, Mass. -- A Massachusetts teen who was making a food delivery when his car struck a pair of motorcyclists, killing one, has avoided jail.Eighteen-year-old Jacob Earl of Buckland received a 2 -year suspended sentence on Tuesday after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide. The Recorder (http://bit.ly/19im78z ) reports he was also ordered to spend 100 hours talking to youth about the ...
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Report North America back on top for millionaires
North America reclaimed the top spot with the most millionaires last year as the world's ultra-rich led the way in raising global wealth to a record high, according to a report by Cap Gemini and Royal Bank of ...
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Gun manufacturer leaving Connecticut for South Carolina
File -- In this photo Aug. 15, 2012 file photo, three variations of the AR-15 assault rifle are displayed at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento, Calif. In the wake of the school shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton Connecticut, California State Sen. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, that he expects the Democratic-controlled ...
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Benefit payment change hurts poor
Comerica Bank , an effort that is shifting costs to elderly people, veterans and other vulnerable consumers.The Treasury Department launched the program in 2008, teaming up with the Dallas-based bank to issue the "Direct Express" debit cards in a deal that lacked the open competition or transparency of most federal contracts. The exclusive agreement -- whose financial details are not ...
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Multiple sclerosis relay fundraiser crosses US
MS Run the U.S. participant Amy VanDyke, left, and founder Ashley Kumlien stopped June 14, 2013, in Brush at Diggers Diner for an interview. VanDyke is among the 15 runners raising money for research into curing multiple sclerosis, an often progressively disabling autoimmune disease. Kumlien created the relay-style fundraiser after running all the way across the United States by herself to raise ...
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Connecticut Food Bank needs help
Residents of Connecticut living in poverty, or those who find themselves pushed out of the middle classes by a bad economy, are increasingly turning to a local NGO known as the Connecticut Food Bank for help in having their daily food needs met. Yet the tragedy of groups such as this is that at times when they’re needed most, in times of high unemployment and economic hardship, they see a marked reduction in donations and dwindling supplies.
The Connecticut Food Bank has a simple mission, “To alleviate hunger”, but that goal is far from simple during the worst recession in almost 100 years. Connecticut’s economy took a hammering with the rest of the country, and indeed the world, and while it is now on the path to recovery, the aftermath of the recession remains. Read more
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