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A man accused of stalking UConn star Paige Bueckers is found with an engagement ring near airport
Read full article: A man accused of stalking UConn star Paige Bueckers is found with an engagement ring near airportPolice reports say a man charged with stalking UConn basketball star Paige Bueckers was found with an engagement ring and lingerie when he was arrested near a Connecticut airport.
Aaron Hernandez's brother now facing federal charges over alleged threatening messages
Read full article: Aaron Hernandez's brother now facing federal charges over alleged threatening messagesThe troubled brother of the late NFL player Aaron Hernandez has been charged in federal court with counts of threatening and stalking.
UConn students getting expelled for vandalism that followed team's NCAA championship
Read full article: UConn students getting expelled for vandalism that followed team's NCAA championshipSome University of Connecticut students are getting expelled for vandalizing their campus following their basketball team’s April 3 victory in the NCAA championship game.
Harvard professor ignites uproar over 'comfort women' claims
Read full article: Harvard professor ignites uproar over 'comfort women' claimsHarvard University law professor J. – A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and faces mounting scrutiny for alleging that Korean women who were kept as sex slaves in wartime Japan had actually chosen to work as prostitutes. Mark Ramseyer rejected a wide body of research finding that Japan’s so-called “comfort women” were forced to work at military brothels during World War II. Decades of research has explored the abuses inflicted on comfort women from Korea and other nations previously occupied by Japan. But the claims about enslaved Korean comfort women are historically untrue.”AdOpponents counter that many of the women were so young they would have been unable to consent to sex even if there was evidence of contracts.
Scientists decry death by 1,000 cuts for world's insects
Read full article: Scientists decry death by 1,000 cuts for world's insects(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)The world’s vital insect kingdom is undergoing “death by a thousand cuts,” the world’s top bug experts said. Wagner said scientists need to figure out if the rate of the insect loss is bigger than with other species. Insects “are absolutely the fabric by which Mother Nature and the tree of life are built,” Wagner said. Scientists have identified 1 million insect species, while probably 4 million more are still to be discovered, Berenbaum said. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.
The Latest: Connecticut governor is self-quarantining
Read full article: The Latest: Connecticut governor is self-quarantiningNed Lamont is self-quarantining after his chief spokesperson tested positive for COVID-19, his administration announced late Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Ned Lamont is self-quarantining after his chief spokesperson tested positive for COVID-19. Another governor, Democrat Steve Sisolak of Nevada, announced Friday that he had tested positive for COVID-19. DeWine tested positive using a rapid test before testing negative later that day after using a more sensitive laboratory-developed test. The latest state health department figures also show hospitalizations have edged back up statewide — hitting 684 after dipping to 676 a day earlier.
UConn student fugitive in court on murder charge, police say
Read full article: UConn student fugitive in court on murder charge, police sayHARTFORD, Conn. A University of Connecticut student who police say used a machete to kill a man and fatally shot a woman, then spent six days as a fugitive until he was arrested in Maryland, will be arraigned Friday on a murder charge, authorities said. Peter Manfredonia, 23, will be arraigned in Rockville Superior Court in Connecticut in the May 22 death of 62-year-old Ted DeMers in nearby Willington, Trooper Josue Dorelus said at a news briefing early Friday. Manfredonia, 23, killed DeMers and seriously wounded another man in the machete attack, authorities say. Two days later, police say, Manfredonia stole a truck and guns and fatally shot high school acquaintance Nicholas Eisele, 23, in Derby, Connecticut. He declined to fight extradition back to Connecticut during a brief court hearing the day after his capture.