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WATERBURY - Police are looking for a man who robbed a Chinese restaurant at Whitewood Road and Angel Drive after 10 p.m. Saturday.

BRIDGEWATER — The 65th Bridgewater Country Fair is offering something its 64 predecessors never did: beer and wine.

Working men and women, middle class professionals and the super rich have paid close to $136 billion in the 25 years since Connecticut decided to tax people's personal earnings.

The personal income tax evolved from a flat 4.5 percent tax on earned and investment income to a progressive tax of six graduated rates ranging from 3 percent to 6.99 percent.

HARTFORD — When the state's richest taxpayers have an off year, Connecticut takes a hit because state income taxes are dependent on the wealthiest earners.

See photos from the Republican-American's archives every week in the new #Throwback Thursday feature at http://blogs.rep-am.com/throwback/

WATERBURY — Sizable donations continue to help the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund create a solid footing for next year's campaign.

WATERBURY — The city's Department of Public Health has slapped the owner of Savings Tower with code violations, but residents of the downtown building at 45 Savings St. say the living conditions are much more squalid than the citations suggest.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A bomb attack targeting an outdoor wedding party in southeastern Turkey on Saturday killed at least 22 people and wounded 94 others, authorities said.

WASHINGTON, Conn. — A $39.5 million, 66,000-square-foot AgSTEM academy approved in a referendum last year with the hope of boosting the district's declining enrollment is now being questioned for its own ability to draw enough students and may get downsized.