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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a deaf man who was shot and killed by a state trooper (all times local):

NEW HAVEN -- Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. and a dozen other companies Gov. Dannel P. Malloy selected for his signature First Five initiative have added a net 3,759 new jobs and pledged to invest nearly $1.3 billion in Connecticut in the last five years.

WATERBURY -- A man robbed a Dunkin Donuts on East Main Street Monday night, police said.

A white man entered the coffee and donut shop around 9:30 p.m. and demanded cash from the register, police said. He didn’t display a weapon, but the clerk complied, handing the man an undetermined amount of money.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Traffic fatalities were up 9 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year, continuing a surge in deaths that began two years ago as the economy improved and travel picked up, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by the National Safety Council.

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Glorianne Claudio says she wouldn't be starting school at the University of Connecticut next week if it wasn't for a scholarship program targeted at inner-city minorities.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's congressional delegation is urging the U.S. Navy to suspend any possible plans to shift maintenance of the Marine One presidential helicopter fleet from Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford to a facility in Florida.

WATERTOWN -- Police have arrested a Meriden man suspected of robbing Webster Bank last week.

A man carrying a handgun entered the Straits Turnpike bank the morning of Aug. 16 and ordered a customer in the lobby back inside. He pointed the gun at the customer and told the tellers to give him cash, police said.

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — Police have released the name of the person killed when a stolen car struck a tree in Meriden last week, but say they are still looking for the other occupant of the vehicle, who fled on foot after the crash.

OXFORD — Police arrested a Fairfield man after a fight at a home on Pine Street Saturday night.
Theodore Guest, 25, of 53 Edge Hill Court, was charged with disorderly conduct and third-degree assault and released on $5,000 bond for a Sept. 12 court date.

WATERTOWN — The public school district has hired all its teachers for the new school year, according to Superintendent Bridget Carnemolla.