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PHILADELPHIA - The Temple University community came together Wednesday night to mourn the loss of a student killed in a car accident over the weekend.Daniel Contreras Francisco and three members of his family were killed in a car accident in Connecticut early Saturday morning. Just a day before his passing, Daniel walked in the university’s commencement ceremony as he was just one class shy of earning his bachelor's degree. MORE HEADLINES: He was described as a leader on campus who was heavily involved in the fraternity and sorority community. Students gathered at the Bell Tower on campus to honor his memory Wednesday. The university is offering counseling services to anyone affected by the tragedy. 

Taste by Spellbound in Avon, Connecticut. (Taste By Spellbound) Employees at a Connecticut bakery were left terrified last week after a hungry black bear barged into the garage and helped itself to 60 cupcakes. Miriam Stephens, owner of Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon, said workers were loading cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday when the bear strolled in. The employee "looked up and saw a bear staring at her from the South Windsor side," Stephens wrote in an Instagram post.

The American tourist was snorkeling when she was bitten by a shark in Turks and Caicos, a report says. (Getty Images) An American tourist has lost her leg after being bitten by a shark while vacationing in Turks and Caicos, police say.The 22-year-old female from Connecticut and a friend were snorkeling in the waters off Providenciales island Wednesday when they were attacked, The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force said in a statement posted to Instagram, that later appeared removed on Friday.The statement added that a resort employee on the island "indicated that the female victim had her leg bitten off by a shark."The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force and an ambulance responded to the scene. PENNSYLVANIA TEENAGER SURFING IN NEW JERSEY SUFFERS INJURIES FROM POSSIBLE SHARK ATTACK: REPORTSThe Turks and Caicos islands are a popular Caribbean vacation destination.

STAMFORD, Conn. - Connecticut state police are seeking witnesses as investigators try to determine the cause of a crash that killed four people on Interstate 95 in Stamford.All four victims were in an SUV that rear-ended a tractor-trailer that had slowed for heavy traffic in the northbound lanes shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, state police said.

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) - Vice President Kamala Harris will be the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at a West Point graduation ceremony, White House officials said.Harris will deliver the keynote address on May 27 at the U.S. Military Academy for the Class of 2023."We are honored to have the Vice President as our commencement speaker," Lt.

Due to health circumstances, Lizzo has been forced to make the difficult decision to cancel her concert in Montreal.

Lizzo has been forced to make the difficult decision to cancel her concert in Montreal.The «Truth Hurts» singer appeared to be hurting fairly badly herself when she shared the news in a video message posted to Instagram on Thursday.A tearful Lizzo — wearing a face mask and wrapped in a blanket — explained that she's currently suffering from an illness that makes it impossible for her to perform.«I had a sore throat last night and a headache, and I went to bed. I woke up this morning and my body is weak and I have chills, and my head hurts,» Lizzo said in the video.

FILE - Eighth grade students are pictured during a lecture on internet safety and cyberbullying at the Scofield Magnet Middle School on Oct. 24, 2022, in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)FILE - Eighth grade students are pictur Test scores in history and civics have declined slightly for eighth grade students in the U.S., according to results that show an increasing number of children lack a basic understanding of either subject.The scores were released Wednesday by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joins airport service workers and union leaders Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass the Good Jobs For Good Airports Act on March 09, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for SEIU) HARTFORD, Conn. - U.S. Sen.

Stock image of broadband cables. (Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images) Connecticut police have charged two people with cutting more than 2,000 fiber optic cables, leaving over 40,000 homes and businesses without internet service in the southwestern part of the state.Norwalk police said they arrested Asheville, North Carolina, residents Jillian Persons and Austin Geddings on Saturday during a surveillance operation.

Wildlife and environmental agencies are investigating after a 7th whale washed ashore in recent weeks on a New Jersey beach.  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Democratic U.S. Senators from four states want federal environmental officials to address a spate of whale deaths on both coasts, urging "transparency and timeliness" in releasing information about whale deaths and their causes.The call late Tuesday by New Jersey Sens.

FILE - Tourists are led on tours through the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building on Sept.

flesh-eating bacteria is slowly creeping up the eastern U.S. coast, and some experts warn that it could eventually find its way into Canada if climate change continues to heat our oceans and lakes.The bacteria Vibrio vulnificus is usually found in subtropical regions, like the Gulf Coast (in states like Florida and Texas), which is home to warm waters with low salt content.

A bald eagle opens its talons to grab a pizza in Connecticut on March 8, as photographed by Doug Gemmell. (Doug Gemmell Nature Photography) A nature-focused photographer recently captured an image of a bald eagle grabbing lunch to-go as he took flight in Connecticut skies.Doug Gemmell, a resident of South Windsor, went out to Wethersfield Cove inlet on March 8 to snap some photos of eagles on his Nikon D500 camera.The retired banker has been photographing birds, insects and nature for the last seven years.Much of his work is dedicated to photographing eagles and Gemmell said he tries to catch the birds "fishing."TWITTER USERS REACT TO TSA SCREENING BALD EAGLE AT NORTH CAROLINA AIRPORT: 'HE IS GORGEOUS!'"I want to get some action shots and well, that was some action shot," Gemmell told Fox News Digital of the March 8 photo he took. "It’s not quite the fish [picture], but it was an interesting photo to say the least." Named Liberty and Guardian, the bald eagles were filmed shielding their only egg from the elements during a snowstorm in California.

FILE - People participate in an abortion rights rally outside of the Supreme Court. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Doctors in California who mail abortion pills to people in other states would be protected from prosecution under a new bill to be unveiled Friday in the state Legislature.The bill would not let California extradite doctors who are facing charges in another state for providing abortion medication.

Andie Rosafort, 31, a lunch lady in the New Fairfield school district, was charged with second-degree sexual assault, enticing a minor by computer and risk of injury to a minor. (Connecticut State Police) A married Connecticut school employee allegedly had sex with a student, sent him "several" nude photos and videos for months, and asked him to send her sexually explicit videos, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.Andie Rosafort, 31, was arrested in February and charged with second-degree sexual assault, enticing a minor by computer and risk of injury to a minor after a month-long police investigation while she was working for New Fairfield Public Schools.Rosafort had worked in the cafeteria at New Fairfield Middle School.

LOS ANGELES - During the pandemic, some 25.9% of parents lied about their kids’ COVID test results to prevent their kids from having to miss school and other activities, a new study has found.The survey, titled "Parental Nonadherence to Health Policy Recommendations for Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission Among Children," was published in the Jama Network Open. A team of researchers from universities in Iowa, Utah, Colorado, Connecticut and the U.K. conducted the study.Of the 580 U.S.

NEW YORK - Is the city you live in considered "happy"?Personal finance website WalletHub released their rankings of 2023’s Happiest Cities in America, and a number of cities across the tri-state area made the list:NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 18: The sun sets on buildings in midtown Manhattan seen from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building on February 18, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) 18: Yonkers57: New York102: Rochester121: Buffalo32: Jersey City125: NewarkDowntown Newark.

DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Detroit rapper's role in a $27 million tax fraud scheme landed her a prison sentence.Sameerah Marrell, also known as Sameerah Anderson, Sameerah Pickett, Crème, and Loren Boyd, was sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison and three years of supervised release. The 42-year-old must also pay the remaining restitution – $7,979,041.71.According to federal authorities, Marrell had successfully stolen $8.5 million, and the amount owed in restitution has been reduced by money, cars, and jewelry seized by the federal government and the states from Marrell during the course of this investigation.Between 2014 and April 2022, Marrell worked with others to file 122 false income tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service and Minnesota, Georgia, Maryland, Arizona, Connecticut, and Colorado state treasuries.

MANCHESTER, Connect. - A middle school teacher in Connecticut is being praised by firefighters after she pulled an unconscious driver from a burning vehicle on Thursday. Manchester Fire Rescue EMS says Heather Sica Leonard, a teacher at Illing Middle School in Manchester, almost certainly saved the driver’s life. According to the fire department, the driver, John, has limited mobility and uses a wheelchair."While driving his van down Main Street he smelled smoke, then moved a cup holder to find flames coming from his dash. He stopped the vehicle on the side of the ramp, suddenly finding himself in a burning car," Manchester Fire Rescue EMS said, adding that the fuel tank of his van had ruptured.Helmet camera provided by the fire department shows firefighters responding to the scene on Feb.

A storybook castle is for sale for $2 million in Stamford, Connecticut. (Photo courtesy of Realtor Silvana Orsaia) If you are in the market for a new home, a great piece of property is available now in Stamford, Connecticut.A 117-year-old castle listed on Realtor.com sits on more than three acres with over 6,000 square feet of living space and has "tons of old world charm."RELATED: The Caribbean's most expensive home just went on the market for $200M – see insideThis massive home is listed for $2 million and features French doors that lead to a private backyard with a koi pond, garden area, gazebo, and a three-car paved garage.Image of storybook castle's backyard with Koi pond in in Stamford, Connecticut.

FILE-An image of a black bear in a zoo in 2009. (Angela Rowlings/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images) MORRIS, Conn. - A 250-pound (113-kilogram) black bear mauled a 10-year-old boy playing in his grandparents’ backyard in Connecticut and tried to drag him away before the animal was fatally shot by police, authorities said.The child was attacked about 11 a.m.

Police officers stand at the scene after three officers were shot and wounded at a home on Oct. 12, 2022, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Credit: FOX 29 Philadelphia) It was a violent week across the United States, notably for police officers, after at least 12 in law enforcement were shot in cities spanning coast to coast — leaving at least five of them dead in Connecticut, Mississippi, Nevada, and North Carolina. "We are seeing violence against law enforcement skyrocket," the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the country’s largest police union, said Thursday.

CONNECTICUT - 3 Bristol police officers were shot in Bristol, Connecticut late on Wednesday. Two of them died, according to police officials.A 911 call for a domestic dispute came in just before 10:30 p.m. for a fight between siblings at 310 Redstone Hill Road.

shooting was a hoax, a jury in Connecticut decided Wednesday.The verdict is the second big judgment against the Infowars host over his relentless promotion of the lie that the 2012 massacre never happened, and that the grieving families seen in news coverage were actors hired as part of a plot to take away people’s guns.It came in a lawsuit filed by the relatives of five children and three educators killed in the mass shooting, plus an FBI agent who was among the first responders to the scene. A Texas jury in August awarded nearly $50 million to the parents of another slain child.FILE - Alex Jones during a 'Stop the Steal,' Far-Right Rallies leaders, broadcaster rally at the Governor's Mansion in Georgia Nov.

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 4 of 10 Americans didn't follow public health measures or lied about being compliant, mostly because they wanted life to feel normal and exercise their personal freedoms, reveals a survey published yesterday in JAMA Network Open.

NEW YORK (AP) - The latest government study on teen vaping suggests there's been little progress in keeping e-cigarettes out of the hands of kids.The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14% saying they had done so recently, according to survey results released Thursday. In last year's survey, about 11% said they had vaped recently.But experts cautioned that a change in the survey makes it difficult to compare the two: This year, a much higher percentage of participants took the survey in schools, and vaping tends to be reported more in schools than in homes."It continues to be difficult to assess (vaping) trends since the pandemic," said Alyssa Harlow, a University of Southern California researcher who studies youth e-cigarette use.Despite its persistence, vaping appears to be less popular than it was: In 2019, 28% of high schoolers said they had recently vaped.Educators say vaping is still a big problem.Anecdotally, the 2021-22 school year was worse than it was before the pandemic, said Mike Rinaldi, principal of Westhill High School in Stamford, Connecticut.

Jamie Graham stands next to his record-setting pumpkin. (Topsfield Fair)He also won a cash prize of $8,522.

Gabby Petito's family on Friday praised a new, bipartisan Senate bill to help find missing persons as a "huge step forward."The new bill introduced Thursday by Democratic Connecticut senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal and Republican senators John Cornyn of Texas, John Hooven of North Dakota and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, aims to streamline the national process for reporting missing persons."We said as parents we are going to help make changes. Here is a huge step forward," Petito's father, Joseph Petito, said in a tweet Friday.The legislation offers funding to the National Missing Persons and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) for a missing persons/unidentified database that the public can access and contribute to; connects NamUs with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) to improve missing persons databases; requires law enforcement to report missing persons to NamUs; establishes incentives to help states report missing persons; and requires the Justice Department to issue best-practice guidelines regarding the handling of missing persons cases.FILE - A sign honors the death of Gabby Petito on Sept.

FILE - Flowering field of industrial hemp. ( John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)Vermont dispensaries are set to begin selling marijuana for recreational use, though only three will be ready to do so on opening weekend.FLORA Cannabis in Middlebury, Mountain Girl Cannabis in Rutland and CeresMED in Burlington will all open on Saturday.

"Shoebert" the seal. (Credit: Beverly Police Department) BEVERLY, Mass. - A police station in Massachusetts got a surprise visit from a mammal early Friday morning. The Beverly Police Department said "Shoebert" the seal got out of a local pond and made his way to the side of the police station for help. Beverly Animal Control, Members of NOAA, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the Beverly Fire Department all came to attend to Shoebert and got him into a special wildlife carrier without incident. RELATED: There are more ants on Earth than the combined total of birds, mammals, study findsThey said the seal appeared to be in good health and "was a little sassy in the early morning hours."Shoebert was taken to the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut and will undergo a medical evaluation before he is released into the wild. "Thank you Shoebert for having faith in the BPD, you will be deeply missed by your friends here," the department posted on Facebook.

FILE - (L to R) Pork Chorizo, Al Pastor, and Oxtail Barbacoa tacos in a file image dated Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post via Getty Images).

An observational study of 219 unvaccinated long-COVID patients with neurologic symptoms in the Amazon concludes that 64% had a persistently impaired sense of smell, which the authors said could be permanent.

CHESTER HEIGHTS, Pa. - A woman died after she crashed head-on into a pole as police were chasing her in Chester Heights Borough on Wednesday. According to Pennsylvania State Police, troopers on patrol came upon a running vehicle in a parking lot around 1 a.m. in Concord Township. Authorities say the car's registration information revealed that the vehicle, a 2012 Ford Focus, and thedriver, a 50-year-old woman, were listed as missing and endangered from Connecticut. Troopers approached the car and saw an unresponsive female in the driver's seat, officials say. State Police says troopers tapped the window, causing the woman to wake up. Troopers say the woman then began to exhibit signs that she was possibly undergoing a mental health episode and she sped away. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESTroopers followed the woman as she fled and attempted to stop her, but she put the car in reverse, striking the troopers' patrol car before going north in the southbound lanes towards oncoming traffic, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Authorities say the woman then drove back into the northbound lanes recklessly while ignoring lights and sirens from troopers. As the troopers continued to follow her, she drove head on into a utility pole on Valleybrook Road and was ejected from the vehicle, according to officials. Police say she was pronounced dead on scene and that an investigation is ongoing. This is a developing story.

Steve Bannon is seen after being found guilty on contempt of Congress outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse on Friday, July 22, 2022.

Ebony Mystique is an adult performer, model and celebrity fashion designer from New Haven, Connecticut native, who has become a viral sensation for walking topless on the Venice Beach boardwalk.READ MORE: World's most elite sex club performer spills on A-list celeb members and erotic showsAnd now her porn career is going from strength to strength.The raven-haired beauty said that the end of 2019 was a tough and unpredictable time for health care workers, hence the career change.“I was working countless overtime as a registered nurse and things were hard,” she said.“So I wanted to get into a career that would be fun, give body positivity and autonomy, still pay the bills and then some.“A legendary adult star friend of mine, PinkyXXX, gave me a shot on her platform, and honestly, after the first few scenes that went viral, the rest was history.“I retired from the medical field during the pandemic, helped retire my mum and I am doing amazingly.”And she isn’t wrong. So far, Ebony has starred in scenes for Adult Time, TeamSkeet, MYLF, Digital Playground, Bangbros, CherryPimps and Reality Kings, just to name a few.

FILE PHOTO - State Attorney General Letitia James leaves the podium after announcing a lawsuit against e-cigarette giant Juul on November 19, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs will pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the deal Tuesday on behalf of the states plus Puerto Rico, which joined together in 2020 to probe Juul's early promotions and claims about the safety and benefits of its technology as a smoking alternative.The settlement resolves one of the biggest legal threats facing the beleaguered company, which still faces nine separate lawsuits from other states that are suing the company.

FILE-People on line to vote in a primary election in Boston, Massachusetts in 2021. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) BOSTON - Massachusetts Republicans are weighing which candidate has the best chance of keeping the governor's office in GOP hands as they vote in Tuesday's primary: a former state lawmaker endorsed by Donald Trump or a political newcomer who's cast himself as the more moderate choice.Massachusetts Republicans are weighing which candidate has the best chance of keeping the governor's office in GOP hands as they vote in Tuesday's primary: a former state lawmaker endorsed by Donald Trump or a political newcomer who's cast himself as the more moderate choice.Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty are vying for the chance to replace incumbent Republican Gov.

WATERTOWN, Conn. - A car sitting idle at a gas station in Connecticut was stolen in just seven seconds, authorities said — issuing a warning to others about thieves "waiting in parking lots" for drivers to leave their vehicles unattended. The car theft was reported at about 10:30 a.m. on Sunday at a Shell gas station in Watertown, a town located about 30 miles southwest of Hartford.

FILE - Customers purchase clothes at a supermarket on April 12, 2022 . (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)Relationships are built on trust — and it turns out minor spending secrets, too. Although close relationships require openness, many partners at times choose not to tell the other about their consumer behaviors. Yet this guilt leads to a greater investment in the relationship, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.The study noted that "experiencing guilt from keeping a consumer behavior a secret — even one as mundane as secretly eating pizza — will lead individuals to want to do something positive for the relationship."7 SECRETS TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NEW YEARBut not all secrets are created equal, of course.Previous research noted that more serious acts of secrecy — such as having an extramarital affair — can be counterproductive for a relationship. The study was inspired by one of the lead author’s former students, professor Danielle Brick of the University of Connecticut, who’s also a co-author on the study.FILE - U.S.

DALLAS - The nearly $50 million defamation verdict against Alex Jones for his years of lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is far from a final reckoning.Jones’ attorneys plan to appeal and try to lower the price tag a Texas jury put on his false claim that the nation’s deadliest school shooting — which killed 20 students and six teachers — was a hoax. The conspiracy theorist faces bankruptcy and other defamation lawsuits.

Texas jury on Friday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, adding to the $4.1 million he has to pay for the suffering he put them through by claiming for years that the nation’s deadliest school shooting was a hoax.The total – $49.3 million – is less than the $150 million sought by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the 20 children and six educators killed in the deadliest classroom shooting in U.S. history.

AUSTIN, Texas - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said Wednesday that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax and that he now believes it was "100% real," a day after the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the attack testified about the suffering, death threats and harassment they've endured because of what Jones has trumpeted on his media platforms."It was ... especially since I’ve met the parents.

FILE - Bob Dylan performs during the 2009 Rothbury Music Festival on July 5, 2009, in Rothbury, Michigan. (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)A lawsuit against musician Bob Dylan which alleged he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in 1965 has been dismissed, according to a Billboard report.

FILE - Radio show host Alex Jones joins thousands of gun rights advocates attending a rally organized by The Virginia Citizens Defense League on Capitol Square near the state capitol building on Jan. 20, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia.

We are sending all the love and light to Shawn Mendes as he regroups amid this difficult time.

The new Subway Series menu is pictured at a restaurant location in a provided image. MILFORD, Conn. - Subway is giving away up to 1 million free sandwiches across the U.S.