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4 days ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Alexis Clemons
Dry and breezy conditions lead to a high risk for brush fires to spread on Easter Sunday. Other than the wind, the Easter Sunday forecast is a good one with more sunshine and highs in the 60s across the entire state. Temperatures tonight will drop into the 30s and 40s as winds calm. Patchy frost could be possible in some hill towns into Monday morning. Monday will warm into the 50s and 60s as clouds increase through the day.
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5 days ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Alexis Clemons
High temperatures will warm into the 80s for many areas across the state on Saturday. Areas closer to the shoreline will warm into the 70s, with highs only in the 60s potentially in southeast Connecticut. Winds out of the southwest will gust up to 30 miles per hour today, so it is advised to refrain from open burning again this weekend. We'll cool into the 40s and 50s tonight with the chance for a few showers, especially this evening.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Caitlin Burchill
A Little House on the Prairie 50th anniversary event in Farmington did not meet the mark for fans. Now, the event organizer is charged with first-degree larceny. Jack Bishop of Pittsfield, Illinois, is accused of writing a bad check for almost $64,000 to a Milford catering company he hired to feed 650 attendees for the two-day event. The owner of Forks and Fingers Catering said Bishop's check bounced twice.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Kevin Gaiss
Springtime in Connecticut means the comeback of flowers, warm weather and bears. As the bear population grows and expands around the state, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection encourages you to be "Bear Aware.""Our bear population is doing very well, it's growing steadily and it's expanding to new areas of the state," said Jenny Dickson, with DEEP.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Jonathan Lloyd
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Caitlin Burchill
There's no question that tariffs are expected to impact our wallets. Economic analysts have been crunching the numbers. A study released Tuesday projects tariffs will cost the average American household almost $5,000 this year. The Yale report not only says tariffs will make things more expensive for consumers, but the taxes on imports will also hit lower-income families the hardest.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Mike Savino
Senate Democrats approved a second term for Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) Chairman Marissa Gillett, meaning the only remaining step is a signature by the governor who picked her. The vote came after Republicans walked out in protest of a deal that would also see a sitting member of the legislature get an appointment to PURA in exchange for his support for Gillett.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Caitlin Burchill
Consumers are waking up every day to changes that could impact the price of what we eat. Our NBC CT Responds team is hearing questions about whether tariffs will stick, whether food prices will rise, and what items may no longer be on supermarket shelves. Food industry analyst and the editor of Supermarketguru.com, Phil Lempert, says, first and foremost, don't panic. He says he went to ten grocery stores this weekend and saw people stockpiling even perishable food items.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Angela Fortuna
A man has been arrested for allegedly driving the wrong way on Interstate 91 in Windsor while under the influence over the weekend. State police said they received a complaint about a red sports car driving recklessly on I-91 North in the area of exit 35. The car was reportedly driving with no lights on and was swerving, according to troopers. It happened Saturday around 2 a.m.Highway surveillance video showed the car making a U-turn on the highway.
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1 week ago | 
nbcconnecticut.com | Kevin Gaiss
Naugatuck is in the middle of some major roadwork to upgrade infrastructure in need of help. There are currently six active projects in the city, one of which is currently on Church Street, and the businesses are feeling its presence. "Now we are really at rock bottom so to speak, no pun intended," said Stephanie Fusco, as she looked out the window of her shop where the road is literally down to dirt.