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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut says limited, slower train service is resuming, four days after a derailment injured scores of commuter rail passengers. The state Department of Transportation said Tuesday that 1 of the two damaged tracks has been rebuilt and returned to service for Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak. Full service is expected to resume tomorrow morning.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An official says toxicology tests on the Newtown school shooter's body did not turn up any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription medication. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th before killing himself. He also killed his mother at their Newtown home before going to the school.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Governor Dannel Malloy has told a tourism conference that Connecticut's "Still Revolutionary" campaign has paid off. He said there were more than 270,000 additional visits to Connecticut in the past year, generating an extra $161 million on dining, entertainment and vacationing. The campaign is part of a 2-year, $27 million marketing initiative.
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford, who sentenced serial killer Michael Ross to death in 1987, has died. He was 79. An obituary prepared by Ford's family says he died Sunday in Fairfield after battling declining health following a stroke in 2006. Ford's funeral is set for Friday at Our Lady of Assumption Church in Fairfield.
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