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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 FINAL 75

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METEORITE CHUNK CRASHES INTO HOME. STORY BELOW


D.J. DUBLIN RUNS PART OF A WINNING RELAY FOR WOLCOTT. RESULTS ON PAGE 5C

TEAM EFFORT

Bomb plot unraveling


Suspect bought largest firework he could find

KNICKS WIN

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WAITING FOR A SHOT


WATERTOWNS MIKE MCCABE STILL HOPING FOR A CHANCE TO PLAY IN THE NFL, PAGE 1C

City police detective fired


A Waterbury police detective who was indicted on tax-related charges last year was fired from the department after an internal investigation. PAGE 1B

Ricin-letter charges dropped


Paul Kevin Curtis of Mississippi was cleared of charges that he sent ricin-laced letters to President Obama and others. Officers were searching another Mississippi mans house Tuesday. PAGE 5A

AP

Hacked Tweets cause Dow dip


Associated Press Twitter accounts were hacked and used to send out news that the White House had been attacked and the president injured. PAGE 5A
Police officers march into St. Patricks Church in Stoneham, Mass., on Tuesday before a funeral Mass for Sean Collier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer fatally shot Thursday in Boston. A larger service will be held today for Collier.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Far East chicken is far out


Everybody knows about Southern fried chicken. Asian-style fried chicken deserves some attention, too, with a wide variety of flavors reflecting different regions. PAGE 1D

Pyrotechnics would yield some gunpowder


BY MICHAEL DOYLE, LESLEY CLARK, WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND CURTIS TATE
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

MORE INSIDE
>> Family members say older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was steered toward strict strain of Islam by a mysterious friend. Page 5A. >> Counterterror experts say brothers accused of Boston Marathon bombing fit a familiar pattern of immigrants struggling to fit in after settling in the U.S. Page 5A. >> Services held Tuesday for slain MIT officer and 8-yearold boy killed in the initial blasts. Page 5A.

OPINION OF THE DAY: The University of Connecticut basketball teams won a combined 11 national championships with the old logo. ... Everyone has said, Why break tradition if its not broken? Jackie Holland, Naugatuck
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BOSTON New details emerged Tuesday about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as the surviving brothers medical condition marginally improved and two of his alleged victims were buried, including an 8-year-old boy. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26year-old suspect who died following a police shootout last

week, purchased two reloadable mortar kits from a Seabrook, N.H., store on Feb. 6, according to a company official. Consumer-grade fireworks contain a limited amount of explosives, but the 48 pyrotechnic shells Tsarnaev obtained would have been enough to yield some black powder, Phantom Fireworks vice president William Weimer said in an interview from the companys Ohio headquarters. Tsarnaev asked a question

that 90 percent of the males who walk into a fireworks store ask, said Weimer. Whats the biggest and loudest thing you have? Tsarnaev asked, said Weimer, who has talked to the store employee who sold Tsarnaev the fireworks. Tsarnaev paid $199.99 in cash and walked out with his two Lock and Load fireworks kits, Weimer said, consulting store records. See PLOT, Page 8A

WEB EXTRAS
TO DAY AT R E P -A M .CO M >> HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS New Strike Zone shows for
baseball and softball are available to view, plus video highlights from the Seymour-Holy Cross softball game. ... Photo galleries from a pair of track meets: Northwestern, Thomaston and Wamogo in one and Kennedy, Seymour and Wolcott in the second. >> WHATS FOR DINNER Visit Steven Valentis video blog to watch him making quesadillas at the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce Spring Home & Business Expo in Torrington. >> THAT SMARTS! Soccer referee says attack by coach left him with diminished manhood. Read more in the Time Out sports blog.

CINNAMON Extraterrestrial visits CHALLENGE Wolcott neighborhood


You choke. Your lungs feel like theyre on fire. You cough. Maybe your nose bleeds or your chest feels tight. Sounds fun, huh?
BY ALIA MALIK
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

Expert: Meteorite crashed into roof


BY ANDREW LARSON
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

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Early clouds, then sunny during the day; chance of rain later tonight. Page 8B

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e had seen it on the Internet, orange clouds of cinnamon exploding out of peoples mouths. So one day last summer, in his Wolcott home, 16-year-old Garron Spero tried the Cinnamon Challenge: swallow a tablespoon of the spicy powder in 60 seconds with no water. I went for as long as I could and it didnt really work, Spero said. His problem? I tried breathing. Spero said when he finally inhaled, 12 seconds later, he began to cough. The cinna-

mon burned and irritated his mouth and throat, and he ended up gulping water. Thousands have attempted and failed the challenge, which is more than just difficult and painful. According to a report published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, the challenge is also dangerous. The Cinnamon Challenge has led to dozens of calls to poison centers, emergency department visits, and even hospitalizations for adolescents requiring ventilator support for collapsed lungs, wrote Amelia Grant-Alfieri, Judy Schaechter and Steven E. Lipshultz, the articles authors. See DANGER, Page 8A

WOLCOTT Larry Beck had a visitor from outer space Friday at his home on Williams Court. On Tuesday, an expert from the Yale Peabody Museum identified an object that struck Becks home as a meteorite. The meteorite crashed through the roof of Becks home, damaging the roof and some copper piping and cracking the ceiling in the kitchen, according to Police Chief Edward Stephens. When Beck heard the crash, he thought it was a joist or rafter that broke. On Saturday morning, he investigated and found the rock in his attic. It had broken in half. At first, Beck thought it was a piece of airport runway that had fallen off an airplane. He said many airplanes pass over

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Experts believe this could be a small chunk of a larger meteor that was associated with a sonic boom heard across the state Friday night.

his house on their way to and from Oxford Airport and Bradley International Airport.

See METEOR, Page 8A

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