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HARTFORD — Police in Hartford are investigating the city's 12th homicide this year after a 40-year-old man was gunned down by an unknown shooter.

HARTFORD — A Navy sailor was sentenced Friday to a year in prison for taking photos of classified areas inside a nuclear attack submarine while it was in port in Connecticut.

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — Meriden police say one person has died in an early morning crash but they are still looking for another occupant of the vehicle who apparently fled after the crash.

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (AP) — Michelle Parrott's children hear thunder when there is no storm. When rain does fall, they ask their mother if the floodwaters are rising again.

BALTIMORE — A Maryland ice cream shop is giving patrons a taste of Olympic gold.
Baltimore's The Charmery created a flavor in honor of swimmer Michael Phelps' 23 Olympic gold medals. The shop started serving the limited-edition flavor Phelps Phlapjack Gold this week. The chocolate chip pancake-flavored ice cream was made using pancakes from Pete's Grille. It's a breakfast the Maryland-born Phelps has been known to eat.

TULSA, Okla. — When an Oklahoma man befriended his Lebanese neighbors, his husband lashed out at the family, hurling epithets and at one point allegedly running over the mother with a car.

CHICAGO — Smiling, laughing and occasionally thrusting his arms aloft, a man accused of trying to set off a bomb in downtown Chicago in an alleged terrorist plot told a federal judge on Friday that he believes the government is going to behead him because he is Muslim, but he insisted he was not crazy or unfit to stand trial.

PHELAN, Calif. — More people returned to their homes Friday as firefighters made significant progress against a huge wildfire burning in Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest, but that was tempered by the announcement that at least 96 homes and 213 outbuildings were destroyed.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Baylor University President Ken Starr resigned his post as a law school professor Friday, severing his last tie with the faith-based campus still reeling from a sexual assault scandal involving its football team.

TORRINGTON — A local artist's vision is becoming reality as a massive mural is brought to life on the rear of the Staples building downtown, overlooking the Naugatuck River.