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WASHINGTON — Republicans stepped up their attacks Monday on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and pointed to newly released messages to allege that foreign donors to the Democratic presidential nominee's family charity got preferential treatment from her department.

CANAAN — After years of delays, setbacks and legions of paperwork, the restoration project of the Canaan Union Station will finally become a reality.

WATERBURY — One half of a duo caught with stolen guns taken during a $62,000 heist at a Sharon home was denied parole at a recent hearing.

WATERTOWN — Three ascending ninth-graders hope to help lonely elementary school students find friends at recess.

WATERBURY — The Board of Aldermen were poised Monday to help developers planning to build big box stores in an area above Reidville Drive despite objections of nearby residents.

WATERTOWN — Police have charged a local man with breaking into a Depot Square bakery and stealing cash and a laptop.

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and the United States began annual military drills Monday despite North Korea's threat of nuclear strikes in response to the exercises that it calls an invasion rehearsal.

HARTFORD — Facing a massive deficit that's more than 12 percent of his city's budget, the new mayor of Hartford is appealing to wealthier neighbors to help find regional solutions that benefit Connecticut's struggling capital city and its suburbs.

TEHRAN, Iran — Russia has stopped using an Iranian air base for launching airstrikes on Syria for the time being, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday, just hours after the Iranian defense minister criticized Moscow for having "kind of show-off and ungentlemanly" attitude by publicizing their actions.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey vowed Monday to fight Islamic State militants at home and to "cleanse" the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding, an attack that came amid recent gains by Syrian Kurdish militia forces against the extremists in neighboring Syria.