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NORWICH, Conn. (WTNH) - Police responded to a Norwich McDonald's on Friday night after learning on an incident between a woman and the restaurant's manager. According to officials, around 8:20 p.m. at the McDonald's located at 78 Town Street, a 21-year-old woman became upset with staff due to displeasure with her chicken sandwich. Authorities stated that the woman forced her way behind the counter so she could make her own sandwich. She allegedly assaulted the restaurant's pregnant manager during the incident. There has been no word on any specific charges at this time.

Navy Recovers C-2A from Fatal 2017 Crash from 3 Miles Underwater By: Sam LaGrone June 5, 2019 10:20 PM A C-2A Greyhound assigned to the “Providers” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 30 on Aug. 18, 2017. US Navy Photo A year and a half after a fatal crash in the Philippine Sea, the Navy has recovered the wreckage of the missing C-2A Greyhound from more than three miles below the surface, USNI News has learned. The aircraft was recovered from near its Nov. 22 crash site about 500 miles from Okinawa in late May, a U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman...

USS Oscar Austin Fire Damage Repairs Will Stretch into 2022 By: Ben Werner June 4, 2019 4:49 PM • Updated: June 4, 2019 6:59 PM 171117-N-VC599-559 The guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) arrives at homeport Naval Station Norfolk. Navy photo. The guided-missile destroyer damaged in a fire in a Norfolk maintenance yard last year won’t rejoin the fleet until at least 2022, USNI News has learned. USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) will undergo repairs caused by the fire at least into the first quarter of 2022, according to an unclassified Navy maintenance summary reviewed by USNI News. The summary included...

“These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.” Ronald Reagan, June 6, 1984 Standing on a craggy overlook jutting into the English Channel Ronald Reagan delivered those words 35 years ago on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the D-day invasion. By then the “boys” were already boys no more. The few who are still with us are now all in their 90’s. Some have come to today’s anniversary...

Take a look at Charlton Heston routing the muzzards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ILqbD6XXkA

“‘The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!’” (Matthew 6:22–23). Expanding on the previous three verses, Jesus uses the eye as an illustration of the heart. The lamp, or lens, of the body is the eye; that’s how we receive light. The heart is the eye of the soul, and it is through our hearts that...

Full Title:General Theodore “We’ll Start The War From Right Here!” Roosevelt Jr. Was Awarded The Medal Of Honor On Utah Beach A son will often attempt to live up to the legacy of their father, and when your father happens to be former President, Rough Rider, and man extraordinaire Teddy Roosevelt, that can be quite a tall order. Named after his father, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. fought in both World Wars and demonstrated the type of bravery that must clearly run in the Roosevelt blood. He made multiple petitions to be on the first wave of the D-Day invasion and when...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats on Tuesday that she ultimately wants to see President Trump “in prison,” according to a report.

Seventy-five years ago today, heroes stormed the beaches to start the fight to free Europe from the evils of Nazi Germany. We owe those men a debt the world will never be able to repay. But in many ways, we are squandering their sacrifice by taking for granted the freedoms they protected and embracing the ideology they helped defeat. Have we forgotten the sacrifice of D-Day? Tens of thousands of men were killed or wounded in the invasion to retake continental Europe from the Nazis, yet as their friends and brothers in arms fell beside them on those cover-less beaches,...

I’d like to think I always felt pride in our nation. I’d like to think I always displayed respect for our flag and the men and women who serve in our military.  I thought I’d seen some great parades, fireworks, and pre-game ceremonies displaying true patriotism in the past. But I have to be honest.  I had to go to Europe to “get it.”Only one percent of us serve in our nation’s military today.  That’s not many who have an immediate family member serving.  Only they deeply know and internalize what being a part of that selfless fraternity is all about.American...

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California has morphed from paradise into a garbage state run by garbage people for their own garbage benefit and amusement. The “garbage” part is literal – once the Sierra Nevada mountains symbolized the state; now, towering heaps of trash and human waste do. Welcome to what the Democrats want for all of America. Just watch your step. Literally. If it were not for the climate, something the liberals in charge of my state have nothing to do with as much as they think they do, it would likely be a nearly empty desert once again. But the sun shines, the...

A giant public artwork costing £45,000 dubbed 'Britain's worst sculpture' is going to be demolished just months after it was installed. The four stone plinths were erected in The Cornhill in Ipswich, Suffolk, last December as part of a £3.6m regeneration project aimed at bringing a 'wow factor' to the area. But the structures - dubbed Cornhenge by locals - quickly prompted criticism that it was an 'ugly waste of money.'

President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that tariffs on China could be raised by another $300 billion if necessary. “Our talks with China, a lot of interesting things are happening. We’ll see what happens ... I could go up another at least $300 billion and I’ll do that at the right time,” Trump said Thursday, according to Reuters, without giving details on what goods could be targeted. “But I think China wants to make a deal and I think Mexico wants to make a deal badly,” he said at the Irish airport of Shannon on his way to France for...

Immigration policy is sure to be a top issue in North Carolina’s 2020 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. For Garland Tucker III, it is part of the reason why he is challenging incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis. When Tucker appeared on The Sean Hannity Show May 8 to announce his campaign for Tillis’ seat in 2020, he said he was most concerned with Tillis’ “weak” immigration policies. “He co-sponsored a bill that not only provided amnesty, but provided a clear path to citizenship for illegal immigrants,” Tucker said on the radio show. PolitiFact reached out to Tucker’s campaign to ask what...

House Democrats, who are probing President Trump's taxes and finances, also are working on an event that will bring a Yale psychiatrist to talk about the president's mental state. Lawmakers are planning to focus on Trump's mental faculties at a Capitol event that will feature Dr. Bandy Lee, a Yale psychiatrist who edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and who has raised public warnings about her diagnosis of the president's 'deteriorating' mental state. Lee has promoted concerns about Trump's mental capacity in TV appearances and through the book, which features articles by other academics and trained psychitrists.

WASHINGTON — President Trump has utterly remade the federal judiciary, filling vacancies that had been held open by congressional Republicans during President Barack Obama’s eight years in office. Just two years into his own term, Trump has successfully installed two Supreme Court justices — something it took Obama eight years to do — and appointed 40 circuit court judges, who handle the all-important task of fielding appeals. But in recent months, the battle over judges has moved to district court, the lowest of three major rungs of the federal judiciary and where most major cases — whether concerning guns or...

Students at Rowan University this fall will be able to reduce stress and homesickness by visiting with therapy dogs on campus. Businessman Gerald Schreiber, of J&J Snack Foods Corp. of Pennsauken, has donated $3 million to the university to establish The Schreiber Family Pet Therapy Program of Rowan University. The gift will establish a self-sustaining program to bring up to five certified therapy dogs to the Glassboro campus five days a week. The permanent program will expand upon “Paws for a Break,” a once-a-month venture that had become so popular among students that a line of more than 100 people...

Democratic presidential hopeful and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is rebuffing his repeated entreaties for a primary debate focused on climate change. "Today, my team received a call from the Democratic National Committee letting us know that they will not host a climate debate. Further, they explained that if we participated in anyone else's climate debate, we will not be invited to future debates," Inslee said in a statement. "This is deeply disappointing. The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the...

President Trump planned to join other world leaders in Europe on Thursday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, a monumental event that was largely responsible for shaping the outcome of World War II. The ceremony was to take place on the edge of Omaha Beach in Normandy where thousands of American and Allied soldiers lost their lives. Trump, continuing the tradition of his predecessors, will stand alongside leaders from Britain, Canada, France, and even Germany to pay homage to the troops who stormed the fortified Normandy to help turn the tide of the war.