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Homeless Mom Could Face Jail for Sending Son to Wrong School
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsEducation can be expensive, but for Tanya McDowell, ensuring her son receives a good education could cost her her freedom. The Connecticut woman has been charged with larceny and conspiracy to commit larceny for allegedly stealing $15,686 from Norwalk Public Schools for enrolling her son in an elementary school even though she didn't have a permanent address in the city. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison. McDowell, 33, is homeless and single. She was arrested April 14 and told police that she lived part-time in a Norwalk shelter. She was accused of using a friend's ...
Gas Prices Top $4 in Nation's Capital, 5 States
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Drivers in Washington, D.C., on Saturday joined motorists in five states who are paying more than $4 per gallon for gasoline. The average price for gas in New York could top $4 by early next week. Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois and Connecticut already have pump prices above that mark, according to AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge. Hawaii has the highest price in the U.S. at $4.47 per gallon. Jae C. Hong, AP Gas prices are reflected on an SUV at a gas station in Los Angeles late last month. Gas prices have topped $4 per gallon in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Illinois, ...
Were Colorado UFOs Simply Road Flares Tied to Balloons?
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsEver since three red lights in a triangular formation were seen and videotaped over Lafayette, Colo., there's been a flurry of online sparring between skeptics and ufologists over what was in the sky on the evening of March 20. First the background: A formation of three red lights was observed over Colorado. They were caught on video by Lafayette resident Leroy Vandervegt after his son Nick spotted them in the sky. The lights were described as continuous, unblinking, hovering silently in the air and moving together in the same triangular pattern until they faded away. Vandervegt never ...
Joke's on the Northeast With April Fools' Snow
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON -- A no-joke April Fools' snowstorm descended upon parts of the Northeast early Friday, a cruel prank on a region that was finally enjoying a reprieve from its long, white winter. The spring snowstorm was expected to last through Friday morning -- April Fools' Day -- dropping up to 10 inches of snow in some areas in eastern New York and around New England, dispiriting people eager for spring after a long, snow-filled winter. In Portland, Maine, heavy wet snow clung to trees and street signs Friday morning. Robert F. Bukaty, AP A motorist passes a sign urging drivers to ...
Brother and Sister Save Baby Sitter's Life
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsA Connecticut police department is celebrating a pair of siblings who saved their baby sitter's life in January. Naida Maldonado, a former police officer, has been baby-sitting Nina Stoop, 7, and her brother Tucker, 10, their entire lives. When Maldonado had trouble breathing around dinnertime on Jan. 26, Nina knew something was wrong. She fetched Tucker, who called 911 and clearly relayed the pertinent information. Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson of the Darien Police Department fed Tucker a series of questions: Are her eyes open? ("No. Yes. No. Sort of. Not that well.") Can she talk? ("Um, No.") Was ...
Cops: Stripper Slugs Club-Goer With Beer Mug
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsFor one exotic dancer, a mug shot led to a mugshot. Police in Hartford, Conn., arrested a stripper who allegedly smashed a beer mug on a club-goer's head early this morning. Investigators believe 28-year-old dancer Teonna Jean Rogers became irate when a patron at Sweethearts Gentleman's Cafe and started taking pictures of her during her routine, The Hartford Courant reports. ...
Shocking Connecticut Home Invasion Trial Begins Second Round
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe brutal crime destroyed a family and left a Connecticut jury in tears. And soon its hellish details will be heard in court again, this time for the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second man accused of killing a Connecticut woman and her two teenage daughters in a horrific 2007 home invasion. Komisarjevsky, 30, has been charged with killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, in their suburban home in Cheshire, Conn., in July 2007. Last year, Steven Hayes, 47, was convicted in the killings and sentenced to death after an emotionally charged trial. ...
Death Toll Rises to 15 in Casino Bus Crash
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsThe death toll from the horrific weekend bus crash on a New York highway rose to 15 today after a 70-year-old man died from his injuries, according to news reports. The man, who was not identified, died at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, where he had been taken after Saturday's crash in "very serious condition," The New York Times reported. David Karp, AP Emergency personnel investigate the scene of a bus crash on Interstate 95 in the Bronx borough of New York on Saturday. The death rose to 15 on Monday after an unidentified 70-year-old man died from his injuries. The bus ...
Passengers Tell of Horror in Fatal Bus Crash
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsMost of the 32 passengers aboard a bus returning from a casino during this morning's early hours were catching up on sleep, passengers said, when everything changed from routine to horrifying. The World Wide Tours bus, on its way to Manhattan's Chinatown from the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut, flipped on a Bronx highway and crashed into a metal traffic pole, slicing off the top of the bus and killing 14 passengers. Eighteen others were injured. Chung Ninh, 59, among the passengers napping just before the accident, told the New York Daily News he opened his eyes to bloodshed. "A ...
Punishing Rains, Flooding Expected Across Northeast
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe northeast is bracing itself for flooding today ahead of powerful thunderstorms expected to bring torrential rains and high winds to a region already soggy from the last blow. The tropical-like downpour will unleash more than 3 inches of rain along the East Coast within the next 24 hours. That could cause rivers in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York -- still saturated from Sunday's storm -- to flood. Matt Rourke, AP A pedestrian shields herself from a rainstorm in Philadelphia on Thursday. The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings along the eastern seaboard from ...
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