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HARTFORD - A commuter railroad from New Haven to Springfield, Massachusetts is set to open next year — the first new rail line in Connecticut in decades.

A proposed rate schedule released this week for the CTrail Hartford line shows a one-way trip from New Haven to Springfield will cost $12.75, and $8 from New Haven to Hartford.

When Hartford Line service begins in 2018, CTrail and Amtrak will offer 17 week day round trips beginning in 2018, with 12 continuing on to Springfield. The proposed rates apply only to the state owned CTrail trains.

HARTFORD - A commuter railroad from New Haven to Springfield, Massachusetts is set to open next year — the first new rail line in Connecticut in decades.

A proposed rate schedule released this week for the CTrail Hartford line shows a one-way trip from New Haven to Springfield will cost $12.75, and $8 from New Haven to Hartford.

When Hartford Line service begins in 2018, CTrail and Amtrak will offer 17 week day round trips beginning in 2018, with 12 continuing on to Springfield. The proposed rates apply only to the state owned CTrail trains.

DANBURY - Officials with the FBI have released more than 1,200 pages of documents related to their investigation into the Sandy Hook shooting that took the lives of 20 first-grade students and six educators at the school. The FBI released the information Tuesday morning in three separate files, each containing more than 500 pages of information that was largely redacted of names and addresses of those interviewed by FBI agents shortly after the shooting on Dec. 14, 2012.

STAMFORD-A city man was punched and robbed of his wallet on a South End street corner early Monday morning.

Sgt. Robert Shawinsky said the man was walking home early Monday after doing some drinking at the Peruvian Club on Atlantic Street. Less than a block away when he came up to Henry Street, two tall men walked up to him and punched him in the face and took his wallet containing $200.

The man was sent to Stamford Hospital for treatment and police were called when the man said he had been mugged.

STAMFORD-A New York City man was picked up at the Stamford Town Center mall allegedly trying to pass 20 counterfeit bills on Sunday, police said.

Capt. Richard Conklin said police were called to the Zara clothing store on the fifth level of the mall at about 5 p.m. on the report of a man who had just passed 13 counterfeit $20 bills and picked up two blazers. Store employees told police that a man fitting the description recently passed some counterfeit bills at their sister store in Greenwich.

SOUTHBURY - Police arrested several juveniles on Saturday after locating a stolen car along Woods Way Road.

Police said they received information that a 2017 BMW reported stolen from New Canaan was located in the Woods Way area. Upon approaching the vehicle, police arrested two juveniles who were in the car while two other juvenile ran from the car and fled the area.

Police said they were able to locate on of the juveniles with the assistance of K-9 track and the teenager was taken into custody.

STAMFORD-Before jury selection in the case of a man charged with nearly cutting off the hand of a suitor to his ex-girlfriend commences Tuesday, motions to throw out evidence from from the state and defendant will be heard at the Stamford courthouse today.

On June 26, 2015 Cesar Oliverio, 37, allegedly entered his former girlfriend’s apartment and laid in wait for her to return from what he suspected was a date, police said. When the former girlfriend and another man arrived late at night back at her apartment on Camp Avenue in Springdale, he attacked the man, his arrest affidavit says.

BETHEL—A stretch of Shelter Rock Road will be closed to all traffic except local traffic for a week, starting Monday, town officials announced last week.

The section of the road between Walnut Hill Road and Payne Road will be closed each day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Oct. 31, the town said.

Residents and school buses will be allowed on the road during the closures.

The closure will allow workers to install storm drains, according to a town Facebook post. A paving schedule will be announced following the drainage work completion.

BETHEL—A stretch of Shelter Rock Road will be closed to all traffic except local traffic for a week, starting Monday, town officials announced last week.

The section of the road between Walnut Hill Road and Payne Road will be closed each day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Oct. 31, the town said.

Residents and school buses will be allowed on the road during the closures.

The closure will allow workers to install storm drains, according to a town Facebook post. A paving schedule will be announced following the drainage work completion.

TRUMBULL — One person was sent to the hospital after an accident caused by a motorist traveling the wrong direction on the Merritt Parkway, police said.

Connecticut State Police Troop G responded to a two-car accident that resulted in a rollover on the northbound portion of the parkway between Exits 47 and 48 around 8:37 p.m. Friday night.

Police determined that the accident resulted from a driver entering the wrong way on the highway and driving head-on into northbound traffic.