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KENT — Two people who have lived and breathed international policy shared their thoughts Friday on Britain and the European Union, as well as Germany and Russia, during day two of the KentPresents ideas festival.

WATERBURY — Suspended criminal defense attorney and current federal prisoner, Ralph Crozier, took the stand Friday in the ongoing retrial of a man suspected of playing a role in the killing of a city bar owner in 1998.

HARTFORD — The state Supreme Court upheld an arbitration award that reinstated a state worker who was caught smoking marijuana on the job in a ruling released Friday.

NEW BRITAIN — For 94 years, the remains of a Civil War veteran sat on the grounds of the Oregon hospital where he died.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former Travelers Group insurance company chief executive Jay Fishman, who became a national advocate for research into Lou Gehrig's disease after being diagnosed with it, died at his home in New Jersey on Friday. He was 63.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget office is releasing $183,000 in state funds it withheld from the state's three watchdog agencies.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — U.S Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has apologized for his behavior surrounding a late-night incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more "careful and candid" about how he described what happened.

HARTFORD -- The state Supreme Court upheld an arbitration award that reinstated a state worker who was caught smoking marijuana on the job in a ruling released Friday.

MIAMI (AP) — South Beach has been identified as second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, Florida's governor said Friday.