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5Q: Edward Tulane Edward Tulane set rendering, scenic design by Walt Spangler “5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to shed some light on the production process. A new Minnesota Opera commission,  Edward Tulane, makes its debut on the Ordway stage this month. Adapted from the novel The Miraculous Journey of  Edward Tulane by two-tim...

State Attorneys office releases preliminary report in Meriden Police shooting The shooting happened on February 12 at a motel off of Route 15. A 24-year-old man was shot and injured. Author: Rick Lessard (FOX61) Updated: 10:56 PM EST February 18, 2021 MERIDEN, Conn. — *Editors note: The video above aired on February 12, 2021 The New London States Attorneys Office released the preliminary report of a Police shooting that happened last week.  On February 12, Of...

Published February 18. 2021 9:47PM  MERIDEN (AP) — A Connecticut prosecutors preliminary report on a police shooting of a man wanted for robbery said authorities found a gun under him after he was shot. Meriden Officer Eric Simonson fired his gun once and wounded Kenneth Strothers, 24, shortly before 9 a.m. on Feb. 12, as police were trying to serve an arrest warrant on Strothers, New London States Attorney Paul Narducci said in a report released Thursday. Strothers was shot in the abdomen a...

Officer who shot man outside Meriden motel identified FacebookTwitterEmail A Connecticut State Police cruiser on Dec. 9, 2019.Kendra Baker / Hearst Connecticut Media MERIDEN — The Meriden police officer who shot and wounded a 24-year-old man last week outside a local motel was identified Thursday in a preliminary report filed by the New London State’s Attorney. Detective Eric Simonson shot Kenneth Strothers on Feb. 12 as police were trying to take Strothers into custody near the Flamingo In...

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut prosecutors preliminary report on a police...

Report: Meriden officer shot armed suspect through car window Report: Meriden officer shot armed suspect through car window A Meriden police officer and emergency services vehicles stage in the driveway of the Flamingo Inn at 1601 N. Broad St., Meriden, Feb. 12, 2021. Police responded to the Flamingo Inn just before 9 a.m. to assist another agency. Dave Zajac, Record-Journal Advertisement Police confer in the driveway of the Flamingo Inn at 1601 N. Broad St., Meriden, Feb. 12, 2021. Police re...

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>> reporter: later in the day, work crews began filling the crater in with tons of gravel. the hole was left open for more than a year to allow pg&e investigators and insurance companies full access. the 30" pipeline has now been decommissioned and a new road and sidewalk will be rebuilt. in the meantime, mayor ruane vowed to keep pushing for stricter standards for gas companies and new laws to protect people because he says there are holes yet to be filled. >> im talking about the leg...

reason for it. its senseless. >> reporter: there has been a lot of that this year. the garcia is the 26th homicide on the same pace as the deadliest decade 1991 when there were almost 53 killings. >> the influences out there so more prevalent now. >> reporter: march sell says the economy and the breakdown in family structures contribute to the violence. >> these kids live for today and arent planning until tomorrow. thats due to the lack of love and hope in their futures. >> unfortunat...

the n word. >> that word is going to come off them. >> three dozen grave markers at the mormon island cemetery silently say those that lie here are not only unknown but denigrated. >> it is embarrassing at this day and time. it is insulting. a lot of people have been killed hindusing that word. >> reporter: how did this happen? in 1954 the army corps of engineers moved 36 bodies from an historic gold rush town called negro hill founded by an african-american. the bodies buried in negat...