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A mall in Waterbury was put into lockdown Wednesday because of a swatting incident.
Police around 1 p.m. received the report of an armed individual in the Brass Mill Mall, located at 425 Union St., according to Lt. Ryan Bessette of the Waterbury Police Department.
When officers arrived they found that there was no threat or danger at the mall, Bessette said.
The lockdown was lifted once police determined the threat was the result of a swatting incident, according to Bessette. The facility was able to re-open for business.
“This incident remains under investigation as a ‘swatting call,’” Besset ..read more
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A driver involved in a crash in Stamford last month with a pedestrian now faces a negligent homicide charge after authorities learned that the elderly woman died.
Tyler Zinko, 25, of Stamford appeared Wednesday in Stamford Superior Court where the charge against him was upgraded, according to Sgt. Jeffrey Booth of Stamford Police Department.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Booth said the new charge was brought against Zinko after authorities learned from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on March 30 that 79-year-old Mary Botan of Stamford died.
According to Booth, Botan was s ..read more
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Ellen Ash Peters, a former chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and a groundbreaking figure among women in the law, has died, colleagues said Tuesday. She was 94.
Peters was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, the first woman named chief justice and, before that, was the first woman to gain tenure at the Yale Law School.
Peters wrote the majority opinion in the court’s landmark 1996 Sheff v O’Neill decision, which extended civil rights to the right to a public school education, holding that the state has an obligation to provide school children with equal educational oppo ..read more
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A man apprehended in Florida as a fugitive was extradited to Connecticut on Tuesday to face a sexual assault charge.
Fran Garcia-Pineda, 31, of Miami, Florida, faces one count of third-degree sexual assault, according to the Norwalk Police Department.
Police said the department’s Special Victims Unit last June began investigating a sexual assault complaint and identified Garcia-Pineda as a suspect following a lengthy investigation.
The detective assigned to the case learned he was living in Miami and was able to get an extraditable warrant for his arrest, according to police. The detective wor ..read more
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Meghan Markle’s socialite friends are helping her roll out her first product under her new America Riviera Orchard brand: strawberry jam, for which only 50 jars have apparently been produced.
Fashion designer Tracy Robbins and Argentine socialite Delfina Blaquier posted images of the jam on their Instagram Stories Tuesday, The Telegraph reported. The labeling also shows the jam was made in Meghan’s hometown of Montecito and the jars are being sold as part of a limited edition that could make the product pretty pricey.
Neither Robbins nor Blaquier mentioned a price in their posts, and American ..read more
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By SETH BORENSTEIN (AP Science Writer)
Climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heating the atmosphere taking the biggest monetary hit, a new study said.
Climate change’s economic bite in how much people make is already locked in at about $38 trillion a year by 2049, according to Wednesday’s study in the journal Nature by researchers at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. By 2100 the financial cost could hit twice what previous s ..read more
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Comcast has introduced what it is calling “NOW,” new “low-cost Internet, mobile and streaming TV products” that can be bought as a month-to-month service, according to the company.
“NOW Internet is a prepaid service that provides more reliability than fixed wireless options for a better price,” the company said in a statement. “NOW Mobile is a new prepaid service that includes unlimited 5G data combined with access to more than 23 million WiFi hotspots…”
“Consumers have told us they want low-cost, easy-to-use connectivity and entertainment options that deliver the same reliability and consiste ..read more
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A Manchester middle school teacher was arrested Tuesday on child endangerment charges for allegedly touching several of his students inappropriately.
Floyd Gray, 58, of Hartford turned himself in to police on three counts each risk of injury to a minor and second-degree breach of peace, according to Lt. Nick Reinert of the Manchester Police Department.
In February, police received complaints from three students at Illing Middle School — where Gray works as their teacher — alleging that he touched them inappropriately and made inappropriate comments while in class, according to Reinert. Reinert ..read more
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Low-cost Breeze Airways, which started flying out of Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport in 2021, is launching yet another airfare promotion — this time for travel at the beginning and the end of what is expected to be a busy summer travel season.
Breeze is marketing a two-day sale with 40% off base roundtrip airfares from Bradley and other airports the airline serves, a promotion that expires at the end of Thursday.
The promotion covers travel from April 29 to June 13 and August 26 to Sept. 30. The promotion excludes travel on May 27 and Sept. 2.
The promotion is tied to the upcoming ..read more
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An ax-wielding man led police in Fairfield on a foot chase that stretched to Interstate 95 late Tuesday and ended in his arrest.
Officers responded to the report of a suspicious person to Hemlock Hardware, located at 1860 Post Road, shortly before 11 p.m. and found 35-year-old Orlando Roper of New York with an ax behind his vehicle at a nearby business, according to Sgt. Michael Stahl of the Fairfield Police Department.
Roper was acting erratically and told police they would need to use deadly force for him to be compliant, Stahl said in a statement.
According to Stahl, officers tried to engag ..read more