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Fire displaces family of 10

Click here for updates on this story     HONOLULU (KITV) — A family of ten is without a home Tuesday night. At about 3:30 p.m. Honolulu Fire Department responded to a two-alarm building fire at 94-286 Kahuawai Street in the Waipahu area. Upon arrival, personnel found a two-story home with smoke and flames coming from the

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Connecticut companies see sensors as game-changing technology

Click here for updates on this story     WALLINGFORD, Connecticut (Hartford Business Journal) — When Wallingford-based Amphenol Corp. announced plans last month to acquire sensor-technology company MTS Systems Corp. for $1.7 billion, the price tag was eyebrow-raising, but the strategy made sense. “For many many years, we have seen more and more of our interconnect products

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Connecticut tech startup DineSafe helps prove restaurant cleanliness, safety

Click here for updates on this story     HARTFORD, Connectitcut (Hartford Business Journal) — Connecticut restaurants have had a tough year as COVID-19 has forced temporary — and permanent — closures and made some customers skittish about eating out. Now a Connecticut tech startup is developing a new web-based platform that aims to give diners reassurance

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Colin Powell Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of Colin Powell, former US secretary of state. Personal Birth date: April 5, 1937 Birth place: Harlem, New York Birth name: Colin Luther Powell Parents: Luther Powell, shipping clerk Mother: Maud Ariel (McKoy) Powell, seamstress Marriage: Alma Vivian (Johnson) Powell (August 25, 1962-present) Children: Annemarie, Linda and Michael Education:

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A Black man who wrongfully served 26 years on death row in the killing of a White woman is now free

Eddie Lee Howard was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1994. Now, after decades of fighting, he has been exonerated. Howard, who is Black, was sentenced to death in 1994, after being wrongfully convicted for the murder and rape of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp, who is White, in Columbus, Mississippi, according to the Innocence Project, which represented

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Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and others will be indicted in the Flint water crisis, reports say

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is about to be indicted on criminal charges by a special counsel for his role in the Flint water crisis, news outlets including CNN affiliate WXYZ report. Snyder and several other officials will face state criminal charges in connection with the crisis, the outlets report. Snyder’s attorney calls the reports

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