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Winning the presidential nomination is all about …

FILE - Delegates are seated for the first day of the Republican National Convention, Aug. 24, 2020, in Charlotte, N.C. Winning the presidential nomination is all about delegates. But how does the process work? (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, Pool)

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Heavy winds knock over Christmas tree in front of White …

In this image made from video, the National Christmas Tree hangs from a crane in front of the White House as a crew works to lift it back up after it fell, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, amid high winter winds. (AP Video)

Conservative attack on government regulation reaches the …

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court is seen at near sunset in Washington, on Oct. 18, 2018. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission's ability to fight fraud, part of a broader attack on regulatory agencies led by conservative and business interests. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, …

FILE - Supporters loyal to President Donald Trump attend a rally on the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Trump's lawyers have suggested their strategy in his election interference case in Washington involves distancing their client from the horde of U.S. Capitol rioters, whom the former president has embraced on the campaign trail. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Nikki Haley wins backing from powerful Koch network as …

GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Bluffton, S.C. Haley is among a cluster of Republican candidates competing for second place in a GOP Republican primary thus far largely dominated by former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Election results are in for Vernon Town Council seat

Voters are seen in a school gym in Vernon on Tuesday.

Lawmakers move to force a vote this week on expelling …

FILE - Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters outside the Capitol, in Washington, May 17, 2023. The House Ethics panel says it has found “substantial evidence” of lawbreaking by Republican Rep. George Santos of New York and has referred its findings to the Justice Department. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Argentina’s president-elect tells top Biden officials …

Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei poses for a photo on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus after a meeting with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Russian court extends detention of Wall Street Journal …

FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. A court in Moscow on Tuesday, Nov. 28, extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, until Jan. 30, Russian news agencies reported. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Lawmaker helping lead impeachment of Philadelphia’s …

FILE - Pennsylvania state House of Representatives' impeachment manager Rep. Craig Williams, reads the articles of impeachment against Philadelphia's Democratic district attorney, Larry Krasner, in the Senate chamber at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Williams announced Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, that he is running for Pennsylvania's attorney general. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Banker involved in big loans to Trump’s company testifies …

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, in Claremont, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha, File)

In new challenge to indictment, Trump’s lawyers argue …

FILE - Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks to Texas state troopers and guardsmen at the South Texas International Airport, Nov. 19, 2023, in Edinburg, Texas. Trump's lawyers are arguing that he had a good faith basis to question the outcome of the 2020 election that he lost. A defense motion filed late Monday in federal court in Washington asserts that Trump was not obligated to accept at face value the judgments of government officials who found no widespread fraud in the election. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Blinken will return to Israel as the US hopes to …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives board his aircraft prior to departure, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he travels to Brussels for a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

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New Haven cafe offers package protection from porch …

Trinity College to host vigil after Palestinian student …

Tahseen Aliahmad, Trinity College student who was shot on Saturday night.

Another cold day today

Middletown residents upset over new trash program

A orange waste bag that is part of the Save as You Throw initiative.

Election results are in for Vernon Town Council seat

Voters are seen in a school gym in Vernon on Tuesday.

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Man accused of allowing daughter to sell nude photos

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International

Mediators look to extend truce in Gaza on its final …

Israeli soldiers look at photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants during their violent rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, as Israeli DJs spun music, to commemorate the October 7, massacre, near Kibbutz Re'im, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

A Hong Kong Court hears final arguments in subversion …

A pro-democracy activist known as "Grandma Wong," center, is escorted by police outside the West Kowloon courts as closing arguments open in Hong Kong's largest national security trial of 47 pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Live updates | Israel releases 30 prisoners after …

A Palestinian man collects his belongings southeast of the Gaza City on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. on the fifth day of the temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh chosen to host the …

Faisal bin Abdulaziz bin Ayyaf Al-Miqrin, mayor of the Riyadh, smiles after the Bureau International des Expositions, or BIE, announced the vote Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris. Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh was chosen to host the 2030 World Expo, beating out South Korean port city Busan and Rome for an event expected to draw millions of visitors. Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh was chosen on Tuesday to host the 2030 World Expo, beating out South Korean port city Busan and Rome for an event expected to draw millions of visitors. Riyadh was picked by a majority of 119 out of 165 votes by the member states. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Coal power, traffic, waste burning a toxic smog cocktail …

Firefighters attempt to extinguish fire that razes through a landfill in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sept. 25, 2023. Pollution is causing respiratory illnesses and deaths to rise in Indonesia's island of Java, including the capital, Jakarta. Data gathered by IQAir, a Swiss air technology company, regularly ranks Jakarta as one of the most polluted cities in the world. Blue skies are a rare sight and the air often smells like fuel or heavy smoke. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

41 rescued workers emerge dazed and smiling after …

This handout photo provided by the Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations shows workers, rescued from the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed, sitting for a phone call with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. India’s transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north have been pulled out. (Uttarakhand State Department of Information and Public Relations via AP)

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Crime

New Haven man gets 25 years in prison for 2021 crimes

7 CT groups awarded funding for gun violence prevention

21-year-old woman shot in New Haven

Waterbury man charged in Wallingford home invasion

Man pleads guilty to murder of Meriden woman

Waterbury man, minors hit police cruiser in stolen …

Bystander helps victim being stabbed in Milford

IG investigating officer-involved shooting in New …

Palestinian Trinity College student shot in Vermont

Man shot multiple times in Bridgeport