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Today is Saturday, Aug. 6, the 219th day of 2016. There are 147 days left in the year.

LITCHFIELD SUPERIOR COURT --A Danbury man was arraigned Tuesday in Bantam Court for allegedly stealing an Xbox game console from another tenant of the home where he was renting a room in New Milford.

WOODBURY -- A Roxbury driver who allegedly drove recklessly through a work zone in June was spotted by local police and arrested over the weekend.

TORRINGTON -- Newly installed gauges along the Naugatuck River could be on the way after the City Council approved a resolution adopting the Litchfield Hills Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan on Monday night.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan's territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Emirates flight from India with 300 people on board crash landed at Dubai's main airport Wednesday, sending black smoke billowing into the air and halting all traffic at the Middle East's busiest airport. There were no fatalities and all the passengers were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in a fireball.

OXFORD -- A single-family home with an inlaw apartment at 7 Hawley Road was seriously damaged in a fire Wednesday morning.

WATERBURY -- Nearly two-thirds of Connecticut's 11th graders met or beat English performance targets on the SAT tests this spring, but only 39.3 percent hit the math targets set to college and career readiness.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Three top members of Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's staff are leaving the administration.

HARTFORD -- Two Republican lawmakers are rejecting proposed settlements of alleged election violations for referencing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in printed campaign materials that they says curtails political speech.