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Army National Guardsman Sgt. Danny Sousa, center, and others from the 79th Troop Command work alongside Barre firefighters to clear trees and make roads passable in Barre, Mass. Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. The unseasonable winter storm over the weekend dumped as much as 30 inches of wet, heavy snow and snapped trees and power lines, causing widespread power failures and threatening to disrupt Halloween trick-or-treating. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

October storm disrupts Halloween across Northeast

Last updated Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 9:37am

HARTFORD, Conn. — Twelve-year-old McKenzie Gallasso was deciding between dressing as a witch or a werewolf when the phone rang with bad news: Halloween had been canceled.

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(HOLLY RAMER/The Associated Press) Snow and autumn leaves cover fallen limbs after a snowstorm in downtown Concord, N.H., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011.

Snow smacks Northeast; power could be out for days

Michael Melia The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 4:37pm

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. — Millions of people from Maine to Maryland were without power as an unseasonably early nor’easter dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shoveling snow.

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Citing police abuse, Hispanics leaving town

Michael Melia, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 27, 2010 - 10:40am

EAST HAVEN, Conn. -- Santiago Malave has worked law enforcement jobs in Connecticut for more than four decades, but as a Puerto Rican, he says he cannot drive through his own town without worrying about police harassing him.

Malave, a probation officer who works in New Haven, says the racial abuse is so bad that he only crosses the town line into East Haven to go home. He and his wife are now preparing to sell their house and move, joining an exodus of Hispanics who say police have hassled them with traffic stops, false arrests and even jailhouse beatings.

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