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HARTFORD -- The state Supreme Court established a new test for allowing in-court identifications of defendants if a witness has not first successfully identified the accused in an objective out-of-court procedure.

FARMINGTON (AP) — Fifteen human skulls and an entire human skeleton are among more than 100 items that have been reported missing from the University of Connecticut Health Center after a routine inventory.

HARTFORD (AP) — The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has temporarily closed the swimming areas of three state parks due to poor water quality.

WATERBURY — A city-based tax preparer was sentenced to a year in federal prison for filing about 900 false tax returns for area residents that included fake charitable deductions and education credits.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors brought the first-ever federal terrorism charges against a law enforcement officer in the U.S., alleging Wednesday that a patrol officer with the D.C. region's transit police bought about $250 worth of gift cards for someone he thought was working with the Islamic State group.

NEW YORK (AP) — In another win for cable cord-cutters, Time Warner has become the latest media company to invest in streaming service Hulu.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Their party in crisis, Republicans' frustration with Donald Trump reached new heights on Wednesday as party leaders on Capitol Hill and inside New York's Trump Tower scrambled to persuade their presidential nominee to abandon divisive tactics that have triggered sinking poll numbers and low morale.

WATERBURY — Jasmina Ortiz's family was ripped apart on a July night last year, "shattered to the point of no repair."

Lizzie Borden became part of macabre pop culture when her parents were found axed to death on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Mass. Here are other people from the town:

Nearly two-thirds of Connecticut 11th-graders who took the SAT tests this spring met or beat the state's English language arts performance target, but only 39.3 percent were able to do so in the math portion.