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Today is Monday, Aug. 22, the 235th day of 2016. There are 131 days left in the year.

WATERBURY — An East Mountain resident has appealed the City Plan Commission's approvals of a resubdivision of city-owned property on Interstate Lane and an easement for commercial developers to build an entrance over the property.

WATERTOWN — The owners of Triple Play Sports Bar and Grille are expanding their restaurant empire with the purchase of an Oakville staple.

WATERBURY — It's not exactly spit and polish, but one of the ways a noted restoration company is fixing up the artwork and statues at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is with "saliva" a synthetic enzyme equivalent to human saliva.

GOSHEN — Vintage cars and trucks rolled into the Goshen Fairgrounds for a good cause on Sunday as the Litchfield Hills Historical Automobile Club held its 51st annual Auto Show and Swap Meet.

See photos from the Republican-American's archives every week in the new #Throwback Thursday feature at http://blogs.rep-am.com/throwback/

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut are investigating what they say was an unusual outburst of violence in Bridgeport when 13 people were shot and wounded at a house party.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut are investigating what they say was an unusual outburst of violence in Bridgeport when 13 people were shot and wounded at a house party.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Several pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said Sunday.

ISTANBUL (AP) — An Islamic State group suicide bomber as young as 12 years old attacked an outdoor Kurdish wedding party in southeastern Turkey, killing at least 51 people and wounding dozens of others, the Turkish president said Sunday.