CONNECTICUT — Here are the latest winners of $10,000 or more in assorted CT Lottery games and where the lucky tickets were acquired.

The CT Lottery has changed its policy on announcing winners in order to “protect” them from potential scams. For years, the CT Lottery policy had been to show the full names of all those who cashed in tickets worth $10,000 or more as a matter of public record. It then went to winners having the option of applying for anonymity over the past couple of years. Now, the CT Lottery has eliminated all first names in the winners listings and replaced them with just first names and last initials while keeping the anonymity option available.

July 17

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The commissioner told the jailed father accused of trying to drown his children that he hopes he “rots in hell for all of eternity.”: Report.>>>Read more.

A building permit application has been filed with the town on behalf of IHOP, an acronym for International House of Pancakes. >>>Read More.

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First responders found the injured driver still inside a large SUV after it crashed through the front door of a salon.>>>Read More.

Town Planner Rob Librandi recently earned the title by breaking 13 concrete blocks at the World Martial Arts Championships in Florida.>>>Read More.

Police announced an arrest in connection with the fatal shooting, and also said warrants are ready to be served for 2 different murders.>>>Read More.

The only elevator at an apartment complex has reportedly been out of service for three weeks.>>>Read More.

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The Town Council last week officially declared a day in honor of a veteran Girl Scout who recently graduated from high school.>>>Read More.

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HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – There was a lot of energy at the Republican National Convention Thursday night as Former President Donald Trump accepted his nomination by his party for president.

Connecticut GOP Chairman Ben Proto was a delegate and is now under fire by Democratic leaders for his comments on current Vice President Kamala Harris.

On Connecticut public radio’s “The Wheelhouse,” Proto said she got her job because of gender and racial politics, not because she’s qualified to be vice president.

Democrats say Proto is attacking Harris solely because she is a black woman. Proto, however, says it was Biden himself who made it clear who he was looking for.

“Find his comments egregious, I do find them racial I do find them misogynistic but people have to judge that’s why we made this statement,” said Majority Leader Bob Duff.

“It’s not me or the republicans who have brough this into play, it was kamala harris and then vice president joe biden who did that. And the qualifications. He put on his vice president would be that they be a black woman and the qualifications should be whether are they competent to do the job,” said Proto.

There is increasing pressure for Biden to step aside, with Harris a candidate to become the Democratic nominee.

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