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The 8-hour day included sobriety and chemical tests to train officers learning to detect impairment.
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A new Connecticut police contract has been approved by the General Assembly’s budget-writing committee. It’s a four-year, rank-and-file agreement.
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A national database report shows Connecticut had among the lowest number of police-involved killings in the country this year.
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A recent change in Connecticut’s “red flag” law — which allows police to seize weapons from someone who is considered a risk to themselves or others — has led to a sharp increase in the number of warrants issued, and documents show police are now using it more often to deal with threats of suicide.
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Dash camera and body-worn video shows Connecticut police trooper Jessie Rainville using her stun gun on 38-year-old Ryan Marzi, who died four days later from his injuries.
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A carpet found in the Farmington River by paranormal investigator Sean Austin has no connection to the disappearance of Jennifer Farber Dulos, according to Connecticut State Police.
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An investigation has been launched into an undercover video showing an assistant principal at a Greenwich school allegedly saying he would not hire conservatives and Catholics.
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Connecticut’s top prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into a report that four state police officers wrote hundreds of phony traffic tickets to improve their productivity.
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The detective who led the investigation into the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School attack testified Tuesday that there are three types of people who deny that it happened and harass the victims' families: the mentally ill, those who believed bad or incomplete information, and those who knew the truth but twisted it for their own “power or money.” Investigators put conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in that final group.
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A teenage boy was killed and a woman was wounded in a shooting in a church banquet hall in Fairfield, police said.