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NORWALK -- The investigation of a June 17 assault of two men, one of whom is hospitalized, is continuing and a search warrant was returned yesterday, according to the Norwalk Municipal Court.

The Huron County Sheriff's Department searched a mobile home Friday belonging to Librado Ramos, 2948 Neal Zick Road, New Haven Township, according to the warrant.

A stained shirt was taken during the search conducted by Deputy Steven Shupp and an agent from the Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, according to the search warrant.

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The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that a man who purchased an Andy Warhol silk screen featuring images of Elvis Presley is the rightful owner, even though the art dealer who sold it to him was later convicted of stealing it from a previous owner. In a decision released yesterday, the court unanimously ruled that the current owner, Peter Brant, could keep the painting, Red Elvis, a six-foot-tall work worth as much as $12 million. The former owner, Kerstin Lindholm of Greenwich, had challeng...

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MONDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- As many as 1.2 million U.S. hospital patients may be infected each year with a virulent staph infection that's resistant to antibiotics -- a rate almost 10 times greater than previous estimates, a new study finds.

The research, conducted by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, also found that as many as 119,000 hospital patients each year may die from the tough-to-treat strain of bacterium, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The germ is spread by touch and can lead to dangerous skin infections, blood infections and pneumonia.

"This is a wakeup call that hospital administrators should understand the importance of this problem," said report author Dr. William Jarvis, an epidemiologist and president of the consulting firm, Jason and Jarvis Associates.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. --A dozen Guatemalan workers who planned to work in North Carolina have reached a settlement with a Connecticut nursery accused of forcing them to work nearly 80 hours a week for less than minimum wage, their attorney said Monday.

The settlement resolves claims that the nursery underpaid workers, but attorney Michael Wishnie said he will continue to pursue claims that the independent company that recruited them engaged in human trafficking.

The workers, who filed the lawsuit against Imperial Nurseries in Granby and its labor recruiter, said they were promised jobs planting trees in North Carolina for $7.50 an hour. Instead, they said they were taken in a van to Connecticut without their consent, had their passports confiscated so they would not escape and were threatened with arrest or deportation.

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Fort Wayne Fire Department Captain Bruce Bickley will play his bagpipes at all eight funerals to be held in South Carolina for firefighters killed in a warehouse blaze last week. Nine firefighters were killed June 18 at a sofa store fire in Charleston. One firefighter’s funeral will be held in Indiana.

Man leads police on low-speed chase

A Fort Wayne man who apparently didn’t move his Jeep Liberty over a lane for a

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