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NAUGATUCK — In a split vote, the Board of Mayor and Burgesses re-upped Police Chief Christopher Edson's contract for another two years.

HARTFORD — The state's top election official dismissed the possibility of computer hackers tampering with the November elections amid rising national concerns of cyber threats to voting integrity.

WATERBURY — The car thief that swiped the older model Chevy Impala took advantage of a simple act of trying to keep the car warm on a frigid day. Spotting the car running with the keys in it on a city street in December, the thief took it for a joyride, but eventually crashed into multiple cars before wedging the vehicle against a stone wall.

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Finding parts for a 1929 Stutz isn't easy, especially since the Stutz Motor Co. went out of business more than 80 years ago.

BEIRUT (AP) — The young Syrian activist was beaten, prevented from going to the toilet and saw her cellmates taken for rounds of whipping when she was held for more than a month in several government detention facilities.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to NASA.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) [--] A Dallas-area boy who's not yet a teenager plans to attend Cornell University this fall and study engineering physics and math.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman has been sentenced to prison for embezzling more than $840,000 from the credit union where she worked as a loan manager.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A senior Olympic executive from Ireland was taken to a hospital Wednesday after police came to his beachfront hotel to arrest him as part of an investigation into ticket scalping.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The father of American swimmer Ryan Lochte said Wednesday his gold medal-winning son arrived back in the United States before a Brazilian judge ordered that Lochte and U.S. teammate Jimmy Feigen stay in Brazil as authorities investigate their claim they were robbed during the Olympics.