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    	<title>Assault Rifles, Body Armor Seized in Hartford Gun Investigation</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Hartford Police say they've arrested three people and are seeking a fourth in a firearms investigation,&#38;nbsp; and&#38;nbsp;seized weapons including assault rifles, ammunition and body armor from a home on Mansfield Street.&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;span style="font-size: smaller"&#62;&#60;i&#62;Top left: Troy Coleman&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;Top right: Kiari Taylor&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;Lower left: Serena Darcey&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;Lower right: Chambrielle Dancy&#60;/i&#62;&#60;/span&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>UConn-Hofstra Preview</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Nine years ago, Hofstra spoiled Randy&#38;nbsp;Edsall's debut as Connecticut's coach, blowing out the Huskies&#38;nbsp;56-17 in the last meeting between the two schools. ``Yeah, that wasn't a very good night, that's for sure,'' Edsall&#38;nbsp;said this week.&#38;nbsp;&#60;b&#62; &#60;/b&#62;UConn and Hofstra will meet again Thursday in the season opener for both teams, and this time the Huskies are the big favorites&#60;b&#62;.&#60;/b&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Former Husky Forward Abrosimova Signs With Connecticut Sun</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Another former University of&#38;nbsp;Connecticut star has signed to play with the WBNA's Connecticut&#38;nbsp;Sun.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;Svetlana Abrosimova, who helped lead UConn to a national title&#38;nbsp;in 2000, signed a free agent contract Wednesday with first-place&#38;nbsp;Connecticut (16-10). She joins former Huskies Barbara Turner, Asjha&#38;nbsp;Jones, Tamika (Williams) Raymond, and Ketia Swanier.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:26:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Federal Judge Denies Schaghticoke Tribal Recognition</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;A federal judge has turned back the latest attempt by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation to win federal recognition.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;U.S. District Court Judge Peter Dorsey today denied the tribe's motion for a summary judgment that would have ordered recognition.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>New Haven Shooting Victim Identified as UConn Senior</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;New Haven police say the man whose body was found in a home on Poplar Street last week has been identified as a University of Connecticut student.&#38;nbsp; Twenty-one-year-old Vladimir Voinov was found shot to death last Thursday in an apartment in the Fair Haven section of the city.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Second Human West Nile Case Reported in State</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Health officials say an 82-year-old Bridgeport woman is recovering after being hospitalized for illness related to West Nile virus.&#38;nbsp; The woman became ill with an inflammation of the brain during the second week of August after she was bitten by a mosquito apparently carrying West Nile virus.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Inmate Pleads Not Guilty in Attack on Guards</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;A prison inmate and convicted killer has pleaded not guilty to charges of trying to kill two guards at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Uncasville.&#38;nbsp; Twenty-five-year-old Bobby Beale is facing several charges including attempted murder and possession of a weapon in a correctional institution.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Body of 73 Year Old Man Found at Old Saybrook Cottage; Police Investigate</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Old Saybrook police have labeled the death of a 73-year-old man as suspicious.&#38;nbsp; The man's body was found in his summer cottage Tuesday afternoon. The cottage is located on Bliss Street.&#38;nbsp; Police won't say if there's any sign of trauma&#38;nbsp;and are not releasing the man's name. Police say the man's car is missing and a search is on for the four-door, 1998 Honda.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Danbury Man Sentenced for Repeated Sexual Assaults of Teen</title>
	
	    	<description>_ A Danbury man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;A prosecutor says Efren Guallpa had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree sexual assault.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Percentage of Uninsured Drops in Connecticut</title>
	
	    	<description>Connecticut is one of five states in which the percentage of people without health insurance has dipped over the past few years, according to new Census Bureau figures.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Judge Rules in Schaghticoke Legal Fight for Federal Recognition</title>
	
	    	<description>A federal judge on Tuesday turned back the latest attempt by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation to win federal recognition.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Victims in Drive-By Shooting Identified</title>
	
	    	<description>Hartford police have released the names of the victims of the early Monday shooting on Edwards Street, and have issued a general description of the car they're looking for in the case. Police say 21 year old Lamar Gresham of Bonner Street in Hartford and 23 year old Carlos Ortiz of Gunhill Road in New Britain were found suffering from gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Bristol Police Investigate Suspicious Device</title>
	
	    	<description>Bristol police are looking for the person who placed a suspicious device in a car that had been parked in a lot on Main Street, triggering a bomb scare. Traffic was diverted off several busy streets for more than three hours Monday night and several&#38;nbsp;stores were evacuated after a woman found the device in her car.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Lieberman Says He Doesn't Expect to Be Chosen GOP VP Candidate</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Monday that he doesn't expect to be picked as the vice presidential nominee to Republican John McCain.&#38;nbsp; Speaking to reporters after a speech to a business group in New London, Lieberman told reporters he won't talk about McCain's expected announcement, but downplayed his own chances.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Former UConn Recruit Says She 'Burned Out' on Basketball</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Elena Delle Donne has enrolled at Delaware&#38;nbsp;and joined its volleyball team as a non-scholarship member, less&#38;nbsp;than a week after she was released from her basketball scholarship&#38;nbsp;at the University of Connecticut.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;At a news conference Monday, Delle Donne said she has no&#38;nbsp;intention of playing basketball at Delaware anytime soon.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:53:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Two Dead in Hartford Shooting</title>
	
	    	<description>Hartford police are investigating a double fatal shooting early Monday on a city street, an apparent drive-by shooting.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;According to televised reports, two men were walking along the city street about 3 a.m. when a car pulled up alongside and&#38;nbsp;somebody inside opened fire. The two men were killed and some witnesses told police they heard 7 gunshots.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Cilic Defeats Fish at Pilot Pen; Unseeded Wozniacki Takes Women's Final</title>
	
	    	<description>Marin Cilic won his first ATP Tour event&#38;nbsp;Saturday, beating American Mardy Fish 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 at the Pilot&#38;nbsp;Pen, a U.S. Open tuneup.&#38;nbsp; Unseeded Caroline Wozniacki won the women's title, her second&#38;nbsp;tournament victory this month, beating top-seeded Anna Chakvetadze&#38;nbsp;3-6, 6-4, 6-1.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Former Governor's Stepson Dies at Age 23</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;The stepson of former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland died Friday at a Waterbury hospital, three days after he was found struggling to breathe in the family's home, authorities said.&#38;nbsp; Ryan Largay was 23. His cause of death was not immediately disclosed.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Shays Cites Obama, McCain in Congressional Re-election Ad</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Rep. Christopher Shays, who co-chairs Republican John McCain's campaign in Connecticut, is speaking favorably about McCain's Democratic rival Barack Obama in a new TV ad for Shays' own tough re-election fight.&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;&#60;b&#62; &#60;/b&#62;``The hopefulness of Obama, the straight talk of McCain,'' an announcer says. ``It's what Christopher Shays has always stood for. He goes where the truth takes him.''&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Some Hartford Council Members Want Second Chance at Allocating Library Money</title>
	    	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>PHOTO GALLERY Connecticut Civil War Monument Unveiled</title>
	
	    	<description>The monument will be transported to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to be erected in a park honoring the the Civil War seige. Photos by WTIC's Matt Dwyer.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Civil War Monument Unveiled in Hartford, Headed to Vicksburg</title>
	
	    	<description>The centerpiece of a new monument honoring the ``forgotten'' 9th Connecticut Volunteers Civil War regiment will soon be shipped to the National Military Park in Vicksburg, Miss.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Connecticut Report: More 'English Language Learners' in Schools</title>
	
	    	<description>The number of English Language Learners has increased from 23-thousand to 29-thousand, over the last five years. At the same time the overall school population shrank.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Hartford Youth Curfew Going into Effect</title>
	
	    	<description>The emergency curfew is aimed at curtailing violence by getting anyone loitering and younger than 18 off the streets by 9 p.m. The&#38;nbsp;effort is in response to recent violence,&#38;nbsp;including a weekend shooting that left one man dead and six other people wounded.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Three Dozen Protest Tropic Thunder in Middletown</title>
	
	    	<description>Use of the word &#38;quot;retard,&#38;quot; in the movie prompted people to gather outside a movie theater&#38;nbsp; to protest the comedy's treatment of people with disabilities.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Food Donations from Home Gardeners Banned</title>
	
	    	<description>Good intentions aren't good enough for some Southington people who have been trying to donate produce from their gardens to a group that feeds the needy. Health officials say that vegetables from home gardens can't be given to the organization, Bread for Life.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Special Probation in East Haven Fetus Assault Case</title>
	
	    	<description>An East Haven man accused of trying to have a co-worker assault his pregnant ex-girlfriend to make her lose her unborn baby has avoided prison time. Twenty-two-year-old Jose Caporal was granted accelerated rehabilitation Tuesday. The program will allow Caporal to have his record cleared if he does not get arrested again for two years.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:53:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Waterbury Heart Center Fighting for Life</title>
	
	    	<description>Supporters of the Heart Center of Greater Waterbury are banding together in an effort to keep the emergency medical facility open. The state Office of Health Care Access is considering closing the heart center in the next few months.&#60;br /&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Vernon Couple Arrested for Alleged Child Beatings</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;Vernon police have charged a 24-year-old man and his girlfriend for the alleged beatings of three children with plastic baseball bats. Police say Christopher Dubay urged the three children, aged 6, 4 and 2, to beat one another with plastic baseball bats, then allegedly beat them himself.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Six Injured, One Dead in North End Shootings Following Parade</title>
	
	    	<description>Shots&#38;nbsp;were fired near crowds that had gathered Saturday night after Hartford's annual West Indian parade, police said.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:52:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Motocross Rider Dies of Injuries After Stafford Crash</title>
	
	    	<description>Authorities say a Nevada motocross rider has died of injuries after a crash at a Connecticut track</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Report: DOT Costs on The Rise</title>
	
	    	<description>Major increases in materials costs are being blamed for some state transportation projects running over budget. A new report to Gov. M. Jodi Rell shows the cost of work on the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, also known as the ``Q-Bridge'' on Interstate 95, is about $480 million higher than first estimated.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2008 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Regulators Order CNG to Credit Customers</title>
	
	    	<description>State regulators ordered Connecticut Natural Gas to immediately start crediting customers&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;to compensate for millions of dollars in profits to which it was not entitled.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Congress Offers Some Relief from Property Taxes</title>
	
	    	<description>Hundreds of thousands of homeowners in Connecticut, New York,&#38;nbsp;and&#38;nbsp;New Jersey&#38;nbsp;will get help from a little-noticed piece of the big foreclosure rescue package passed by Congress last month, one designed to help not owners in danger of losing their homes but those who've lived in them for decades.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>State Issues Annual Water System Violation Report</title>
	
	    	<description>&#60;p&#62;State Department of Public Health requires tests at public water systems serving whole towns, condo associations, and schools.&#60;/p&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Fri, 1 Aug 2008 19:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Report: Scientist Linked To Anthrax Attacks Commits Suicide</title>
	
	    	<description>A federal government scientist has committed suicide just as authorities were reportedly preparing to charge him in the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed an elderly Connecticut woman and four other Americans.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Fri, 1 Aug 2008 06:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Massachusetts House Vote: Allow Out-of-state Gay Couples to Marry</title>
	
	    	<description>The Massachusetts House voted to repeal a 1913 law that had been used to block gay marriages involving out-of-state couples, all but assuring the state will allow same-sex couples to wed regardless of where they live.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Woodbury Jazz guitarist Joe Beck dead at 62</title>
	
	    	<description>Joe Beck, who collaborated with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and James Brown, has died at a local hospice after battling lung cancer.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:26:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Police: Westport Officers Shoot Suspect</title>
	
	    	<description>Police say a Westport man is charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting at officers who were called to his home on a domestic violence complaint. Louis Bovino received superficial wounds when the officers returned fire, according to the Connecticut State Police, which is reviewing the incident.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Two Dead, Three Injured in Boating Accident</title>
	
	    	<description>Authorities say an overnight collision between two boats on Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut has killed two men.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;A spokesman from the state Department of Environmental Protection says they were on a boat that collided with another powerboat around 1:15 a.m. Saturday.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:29:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Mashantuckets Facing Credit Downgrading</title>
	
	    	<description>A major financial services company is considering downgrading the credit rating of the Mashantucket Pequot tribe following declining slot machine profits at the Foxwoods Resort Casino. Standard &#38;amp; Poor's on Wednesday issued a ``CreditWatch'' withnegative bias, meaning the tribe has a 50-percent chance of having its rating downgraded.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:57:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Mansfield Woman Charged in Death of 7-Month-Old</title>
	
	    	<description>State police have charged a Mansfield woman who is a licensed foster care provider with manslaughter in the death of a 7-month-old boy. Suzanne Listro has been charged in the May 19 death of Michael Brown Jr. who died after being rushed to the hospital from the woman's home on Stearns Road.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:47:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Probate Court Administrator Resigns</title>
	
	    	<description>The head of Connecticut's probate courts will resign in October after six years of trying to institute major reforms that were strongly opposed by judges. Probate court administrator James Lawlor submitted his resignation Monday to state Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Math, Writing, Science Scores Up in CAPTs</title>
	
	    	<description>State officials say the latest performance tests for Connecticut's high school sophomores show improvements in math, writing and science over last year's results. But they say progress in reading was flat in the Connecticut Academic Performance Tests. The state Department of Education released the results Tuesday.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>CBS Files Appeal over Connecticut Marine Interview</title>
	
	    	<description>CBS News is appealing a ruling involving an interview with a Marine from Meriden. CBS has filed the appeal of the ruling by a military appellate court that ordered a judge to review unaired footage of an interview given by Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, a Marine squad leader charged in the killings of 24 Iraqis.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Gas Prices Hit $4.37 a Gallon in Conn.</title>
	
	    	<description>The AAA says the average price of regular gas in Connecticut has gone up two cents a gallon in the past month to $4.37 while diesel prices continue to climb over $5 a gallon. The price makes gasoline in Connecticut the most expensive in the Northeast and the fourth highest in the country.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Motorists Report Windows Shot Out on I-691</title>
	
	    	<description>State police say two motorists had car windows shot out, apparently by BB guns, as they were driving on Interstate 691 in the Meriden area. Troopers got calls shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday about the incidents, which happened near exit 8. Nobody was injured. The preliminary investigation found that the shots were likely fired from a BB gun.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Cosby Speaks to Packed House in Hartford</title>
	
	    	<description>Entertainer Bill Cosby visited Hartford Thursday night. Speaking to a packed house at the Faith Seventh Day Adventist Church, he delivered a message of personal responsibility-- saying that education and strong parenting are important tools to fightproblems that plague inner-cities, such as crime and teenage pregnancy.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Environmentalists Criticize Rell</title>
	
	    	<description>A coalition of environmental groups is accusing the governor of harming consumers with a new proposal designed to reduce electric bills. Last weekend, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced she was directing her environmental protection commissioner to add consumer rebates to regulations the agency is drafting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Man Robbed Buying Drugs Calls Cops, is Arrested</title>
	
	    	<description>Prosecutors have dropped charges filed against an East Hartford man who called police to report he had been robbed during a drug deal. Max Minnefield called police Monday to report that he had paid a man and a woman $8 for some crack cocaine that henever received.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Former DOT Engineer Pleads Guilty to Bribery</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;A former engineer for the state Department of Transportation has pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges as part of a bribery investigation.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 20:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2379074</link>
    		
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    	<title>Freed US Hostage Denounces Colombian Rebels</title>
	
	    	<description>One of three American hostages freed last week from Colombia rebels denounced the group as ``terrorists with a capital 'T.''' Marc Gonsalves says the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which held him and two other U.S. military contractors in captivity for more than five years, were punishing others because he was rescued.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Receiver Named for Four Haven Homes</title>
	
	    	<description>A state Superior court judge has appointed a receiver to manage four Haven Healthcare nursing homes until a buyer can be found. The move comes days after a federal bankruptcy judge approved a plan to transfer most of the financially troubled chain'shomes to new owners. The four remaining homes are located in Danielson, Windham, Norwich and Waterford.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2378795</link>
    		
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    	<title>Conn. AG Calls for Changes to Video Game Ratings</title>
	
	    	<description>Connecticut's attorney general wants a video games rating board to change its methods so games involving alcohol aren't recommended to minors. Richard Blumenthal says the Entertainment Software Rating Board made a mistake by clearing a game called Beer Pong for minors as young as 13 years old.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2377564</link>
    		
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    	<title>Teen Charged with Shooting Baby with Paint Ball</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the paint ball shooting of an infant last month, police said.&#38;nbsp; The juvenile, whose name has not been released, has been charged with second-degree reckless endangerment, second-degreebreach of peace, and third-degree assault, according to police.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2377205</link>
    		
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    	<title>CRRA Makes it Easier to Recycle Trash</title>
	
	    	<description>Recycling trash for thousands of people in 70 Connecticut towns and cities should soon be easier. The state trash agency, the Connecticut Resources Recovery authority, is spending $3 million to retrofit its Hartford recycling system, meaning customers no longer will have to separate recyclables.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2377094</link>
    		
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    	<title>Lobby Group Seeks Lower Energy Costs for Seniors</title>
	
	    	<description>&#38;nbsp;A committee has been formed to lobby state lawmakers to back a plan for lower energy costs to help seniors and low-income residents. Committee member Patricia Wrice of Operation Fuel says the committee wants a state policy to allow qualified applicants to pay a fixed percentage of their total income for energy costs.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2377090</link>
    		
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    	<title>Man Dies in New Milford Condo Fire</title>
	
	    	<description>Fire officials say a 52-year-old man has died in a fire that gutted his condominium unit in New Milford. A fire captain says neighbors were shouting that a man was trapped in the burning unit at Aspetuck Village when firefighters rolled up to the scene Sunday.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Stamford Police Find Bomb Materials in Home</title>
	
	    	<description>Stamford police are investigating a dispute at a home that resulted in a brief standoff and the discovery of bomb making materials. Police discovered the bomb-making materials Sunday at a home that was at the center of a dispute between the owner and an ex-roommate.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2377081</link>
    		
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    	<title>Two Motorcyclists Die in Crash on I-91</title>
	
	    	<description>State police say a crash on Interstate 91 in Rocky Hill involving motorcycles and a tractor-trailer rig has killed two people.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;The accident occurred near exit 24 in the northbound lanes around 8:20 p.m. Sunday and shut down that side of the&#38;nbsp; highway for nearly six hours.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2377042</link>
    		
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    	<title>GE Aviation Buys Czech Turboprop Engine Maker</title>
	
	    	<description>General Electric Co.'s aviation business is entering the market for small twin-engine turboprop aircraft, which it calls the industry's fastest-growing segment.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2364163</link>
    		
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    	<title>No Prison Time for Pfizer Employee Embezzlement</title>
	
	    	<description>A former executive assistant at Pfizer Inc. will not serve prison time after agreeing to pay back nearly $130,000 that she embezzled. Authorities say 49-year-old Hollis Rosendale of Niantic told police she got a thrill from ordering goods and services for herself with a company credit card.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2364144</link>
    		
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    	<title>State Offering $50K Reward in Milford Homicide</title>
	
	    	<description>Milford's police chief says the governor's office has authorized a $50,000 reward for information in a 2001 homicide in which a pregnant woman was strangled and left for dead in her home. Kelsey Monahon, a 28-year-old pregnant woman, was found unconscious in her home May 25, 2001 and died three days later.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2364122</link>
    		
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    	<title>Poll: Rell's Popularity Drops</title>
	
	    	<description>A new Quinnipiac University Poll shows Gov. M. Jodi Rell's popularity is slipping a little as the economy worsens. Sixty-five percent of voters approve of the job the Republican governor is doing. That's down from a 76 percent approval rating in a March 27 poll.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:12:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2347244</link>
    		
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    	<title>Man Dies, Son Injured in Voluntown Pond</title>
	
	    	<description>State police say a family swimming outing at Green Falls Ponds in Voluntown has left the father dead and his son in critical condition.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2347233</link>
    		
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    	<title>Regulators Give CL&#38;P OK to Boost Electricity Rates</title>
	
	    	<description>Customers of Connecticut Light &#38;amp; Power are paying more for electricity following approval of increased rates from state regulators. The state Department of Public Utility Control Monday approved new transmission rates for CL&#38;amp;P customers. Regulators last week approved increased generation and federal charges.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 05:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2347180</link>
    		
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    	<title>Union Goes to Court Seeking Permit to Protest</title>
	
	    	<description>The United Auto Workers is seeking a federal injunction that would allow the union to protest outside this weekend's grand opening of the MGM Grand at Foxwoods. The state Department of Transportation has denied permit applications for protests that would shut down part of Route 2 in the area of the hotel and casino.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 21:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2059264</link>
    		
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    	<title>Skier Settles Lawsuit over Steroid Flap</title>
	
	    	<description>An Austrian skier who missed the 2006 Olympics after testing positive for a steroid settled a lawsuit against a company he claims sold him a tainted product, his attorney said Thursday.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
	    	<link>http://wtic.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&#38;contentId=2058969</link>
    		
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    	<title>Waterbury's Holy Land Cross Dismantled</title>
	
	    	<description>&#60;font size="5"&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;p&#62;&#60;font size="2"&#62;For the first time in five decades, a 50-foot tall illuminated cross is not shining down on Waterbury. The cross, once part of the &#38;quot;Holy Land&#38;quot; attraction which included minature replicas of sites important in the life of Jesus was visible to passing traffic on Interstate 84. &#60;/font&#62;&#60;/p&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;p&#62;&#60;font size="2"&#62;Workers removed the translucent panels from the face of the cross, then cut the rusting base and used a crane to hoist it into the air and place it in a nearby clearing. &#60;/font&#62;&#60;/p&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;p&#62;&#60;font size="2"&#62;Sister Frances Stavalo says age and vandalism had taken their toll on the cross, which served as a directional beacon for drivers passing through the state. &#60;/font&#62;&#60;/p&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;p&#62;&#60;font size="2"&#62;The nuns of the Community of Religious Teachers Filippini&#38;nbsp;are raising a quarter million dollars for a new replacement.&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;br /&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;/font&#62;&#60;font size="1"&#62;&#60;em&#62;(Photos by Matt Dwyer)&#60;/em&#62;&#60;/font&#62;&#60;/p&#62;&#13;&#10;&#60;/font&#62;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    	<title>Hop Brook Lake CritterCam</title>
	
	    	<description>A park ranger says the $300 camera was stolen from an isolated part of the woods, despite being chained to a tree.&#38;nbsp;</description>
	    	<pubDate>Fri, 4 Jan 2008 12:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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    	<title>Friend of Connecticut poets and writers has died</title>
	
	    	<description>Alexander Taylor was the co-director of the Curbstone Press in Willimantic.</description>
	    	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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