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An employee was injured after a garbage truck explosion in New Haven Friday, city officials said.
Officials said there was a garbage truck fire at All American Waste on Wheeler St. There was a compressed natural gas tank that caused an explosion, as the truck had a fully-involved mid-truck fire. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Fire officials controlled the fire and prevented it from spreading to the row of trucks at the facility.
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The pickup truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire last year told authorities he had drug problems, regularly used heroin and cocaine but believed he was not impaired at the time of the crash. The admission by Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was included in a trove of documents released Wednesday by federal investigators related to the… Union Sep 14, 2020
A man from Danielson has died after a motorcycle crash in Union on Sunday afternoon. State police said 29-year-old Kyle Gilbert, of Danielson, was traveling eastbound on Lawson Road, also known as Route 197, in Union just before the Woodstock town line shortly before 4 p.m. Gilbert lost control of his motorcycle, went off the eastbound side of the road…
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The Connecticut State Colleges and University system has picked Terrence Cheng as its next president. The state Board of Regents for Higher Education on Friday unanimously approved Cheng for the post at an annual salary of $360,000.
Speaking in New Haven Friday, Cheng promised to emphasize racial equity in his new post, saying his parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan so that he could have a better life.
“It is a surreal experience for me to be here right now, to have this charge, to have this responsibility bestowed upon me,” Cheng said. “And it is going to be one of my life’s greatest challenges and one of my life’s greatest honors.”
A Norwich man admitted to embezzling over $680,000, over the course of seven years, from a Farmington-based non-profit he was the president and chief executive officer of.