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Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:36:51 +0000

Yale Football

The Yale football team has a new head coach.
Sources tell News Channel Eight that Jacksonville Jaguars assistant coach Tom Williams will be introduced on Wednesday at 2pm.

Noah Finz will have much more on this developing story tonight at 6.



Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:50:24 +0000

Polar Plunge In 09'...

Snow still on the ground, and temperatures around 38 degrees "we" the mighty 09' Polar Plungers pressed on! This year dozens of men, women and children showed up to take a dip! What an event!

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Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:08:27 +0000

Cheers To Bigger and Better Lives In 09'

Out with the old and in with the new! Well, I've been up since yesterday morning and as far as I'm concerned, so far, so good! This year's storm I'm sure caused many of you to alter plans, but hopefully many of you kept moving forward with your New Year's Night celebrations!

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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:40:18 +0000

Happy New Year!

I hope all your wishes become reality in 2009...most of all let's wish for good health. With that, everything else will fall into place for ourselves. Of course, winter weather fans are hoping for more genuine winter weather, and at least through mid-January, those wishes should come true. A strongly negative North Atlantic Oscillation has formed. It has "stay tuned" written all over it.

Overall, 2008 averaged warmer than normal....the winter did bring more snow than normal to most of the state, especially northern sections. This year is behaving differently. Although December has averaged above normal, so too, is snowfall. But my annual New Years resolution continues to limit my long range forecasts. Can you really trust them?

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Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:13:58 +0000

Jets sack Mangini

This one didn't take long, did it?! Less than a day after the Jets blew their chance to make the NFL playoffs, team owners gave head coach and Hartford native Eric Mangini his walking papers. And he wasn't the only one given the heave-ho.

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Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:36:03 +0000

What was your funniest Christmas gift?

'HAPPILY out of New Haven' writes: "Since some of us had a few laughs last Christmas season - let's see what answers we get to the question:

WHAT WAS YOUR FUNNIEST CHRISTMAS GIFT?"



Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:14:37 +0000

"Not-so-smart" phones

There's no need for me to tell you "smart phones" such as Blackberries and iPhones are very popular right now; I'm sure you already know that. What you might not know is smart phone users who store personal information on their phone are at risk for having that information compromised.

Smart phone users: What kind of information/data do you have on your smart phone? Are you concerned about this information being in danger? What measures do you take to keep your information safe?

Reply with your answers and we'll talk about them with our cell phone safety expert, who's coming in with his own solution to keeping that information safe.

Watch it tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. on Good Morning Connecticut Weekend with Chris Velardi and Matt Scott while you're snowed in!



Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:23:08 +0000

Web site difficulties

Our main web site is lagging quite a bit right now amd I wish I knew why. If you're looking for school closure information head on over to http://wtnh.tv/cgi-bin/school.cgi.

More details and an explaination when I know it.

*Update 10:22*
A note from our web host says they are "starting to see sites serve normally again. This is not an all-clear, the tech team continues to troubleshoot these issues...." The problem may have been related to some third-party content we use.

*Update 12:33*
My latest message: "The Tech Team is targeting one possible cause of the site outages and continues to work on the problem."

*Update 14:16*
"The tech team made several system changes to help address the issues
we've seen today and has seen that the sites are holding up and
responding well to these changes. They include adding another node to facilitate more connections and special monitoring of the Apache connection usage."