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    Connecticut governor to replant more than 180 trees, thousands of bushes cut down behind his house

    Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont on Thursday was officially ordered by his local inland wetlands agency to replant more than 180 trees and thousands of bushes that were chopped down in November on property behind the Democrat's Greenwich home. While one of Lamont's neighbors and a neighborhood organization were also involved in the felling on protected wetlands and property they do not own, the wealthy governor has agreed to pick up the entire tab for the landscaping project to replace the vegetatio

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  • USWFXT

    ‘We know this news will come as a shock’: Mass. college announces plans to close its doors

    The board of trustees at a Massachusetts college voted unanimously this week to begin the process of closing due to persisting financial issues.

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    I-5 reopens after deadly ‘chain reaction’ crash near Camp Pendleton

    Three people were killed and five others were injured in a fiery crash near Camp Pendleton Thursday morning, prompting authorities to shut down all lanes along a stretch of southbound I-5 for over seven hours.

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    Activists pour red paint down Rome's famed Spanish Steps in outrage over femicides in Italy

    Police detained several activists who poured red paint down Rome's famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday to raise awareness about femicides in Italy. The protesters, from an organization called “Bruciamo Tutto,'' or ”Let's Burn Everything,'' spilled paint down the 135-step monument, then dipped their hands in the paint, meant to represent blood, to leave handprints on the monument as tourists looked on. One activist shouted that 40 women had been killed in Italy since the Nov. 11, 2023 killing of 2

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  • HealthSlate

    Millions of Women Have Them. They’ve Radically Improved. Why Do Many of Us Understand So Shockingly Little About How They Work?

    I learned for myself how hard it is to get a simple question answered. I'm far from alone.

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  • USStoryful

    House Collapses Into River Next to 'Partially Failing' Rapidan Dam

    A house next to the partially failing Rapidan Dam collapsed into the Blue Earth River in Rapidan, Minnesota, on Tuesday, June 25, footage shows.Aerial footage taken by Andrew Weinzierl/AW Aerial shows water rushing along the failing side of the dam as a neighboring house collapses into the river. Officials have been monitoring the dam since Tuesday after it underwent a partial failure, causing increased soil erosion on one side of the dam.According to local news reports, the house had been evacu

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    He flipped off a trooper and got charged. Now Vermont is on the hook for $175,000

    Vermont has agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of a man who was charged with a crime for giving a state trooper the middle finger in 2018, the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday. The lawsuit was filed in 2021 by the ACLU of Vermont on behalf of Gregory Bombard, of St. Albans. Trooper Jay Riggen stopped Bombard’s vehicle in St. Albans on Feb. 9, 2018, because he believed Bombard had shown him the middle finger, according to the lawsuit.

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