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  • Easier travel ahead for Conn. commuters

    Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to shuttle buses Monday, May 20, 2013. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP ...

  • Violent tornadoes rip through Oklahoma at least 51 dead including seven children

    A boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. (AP Photo/ ...

  • Ray Manzarek of the Doors dead at 74

    FILE - In this undated publicity file photo, members of the Doors, from left, John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison, pose for a portrait. Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says in a news release that Manzarek died Monday, May 20, 2013, at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded ...

  • Police 2 missing children found safe in Conn.

    BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities say two children who were forcibly taken by their father from a foster home in Massachusetts have been found safe in Connecticut and their father has been ...

  • East Hampton sergeant put on leave after alleged choking incident

    EAST HAMPTON >> For the second time this year, a local police officer is being scrutinized.Sgt. Michael Green is under investigation for an off-duty incident last month in which he allegedly choked a bar patron unconscious.Green, a nearly 25-year veteran of the department, was placed on paid administrative leave by Town Manager Michael Maniscalco on May 6 "while an appropriate ...


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The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) [DVD]

In the early 1950s, with the help of noted film theorist and critic Andr Bazin, 20-year-old Franois Truffaut began writing regularly for the Parisian film journal Cahiers du cinema. He quickly gained a reputation as an uncompromising and often vicious critic with a clear-cut sense ... ...

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  • New Haven Woman Charged with Making Bomb Threats Against Connecticut Courthouses www.privateofficer.com

    Deirdre Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI; Joseph P. Faughnan, U.S. Marshal for the District of Connecticut; and Colonel Danny R. Stebbins of the Connecticut State Police announced that Jennifer Chirico, 30, of New Haven, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging ...

  • President Obama declares major disaster in Oklahoma after devastating tornado

    Aerial photos of May 20 tornado in Moore, Okla. View the aerial photos of the damage caused by the May 20, 2013, 13 ...

  • New Britain to host two pro soccer gamesto benefit health facility in Newtown

    By ROBERT STORACESTAFF WRITER NEW BRITAIN - The city will host two soccer games at Veterans Memorial Stadium next month to raise funds to build a mental health facility in Newtown for those who witnessed the school massacre and its aftermath.The agreement between Newtown Parent Connection and the city to host the games was completed Thursday."What happened in Newtown was such an awful ...

  • Developers begin seeing results of New Britains downtown projects

    By SCOTT WHIPPLESTAFF WRITER NEW BRITAIN - Avner Krohn may have said it best."For some time we’ve seen projects on the drawing boards - the new police station, CTfastrak," said the chairman of the board of commissioners for the New Britain Downtown District. "But, now we’re seeing reality in downtown New Britain - projects actually under way."Krohn, a leading ...

  • GETTING ORGANIZED Turn your clutter into cash

    By Leslie Jacobs Do you believe getting rid of clutter can make you money? In my world of organizing, clients have made extra money selling everything from pieces of broken jewelry and gifts they find "aren’t them," to whole rooms of furniture.When the clutter is taking up valuable space in your house and in your life you may feel trapped. The simple way to feel better is to ...

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