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CONNECTICUT

Prison libraries offer crime books

HARTFORD | A review of book lists from state prison libraries shows Connecticut inmates have access to true-crime books and works of fiction that depict killings and graphic violence, with no apparent restrictions based on a reader’s criminal history.

“In Cold Blood,” about a 1959 killing in Kansas, is available in at least two Connecticut prisons, including one where a man on trial for a similar 2007 home invasion in Cheshire had served time.

Prisons spokesman Brian Garnett said talking about book policies would violate a gag order in the case. The Associated Press obtained the information under the state’s Freedom of Information Act.

State Sen. John Kissel says he will ask that all books with violent themes be removed from the prisons, and may propose legislation to ensure that happens.

FLORIDA

Feds make arrest in fatal bank heist

MIAMI | One man has been arrested and federal authorities are searching for at least two others in the robbery and killing of an armored-truck guard outside a South Florida bank, FBI officials said Sunday.

Nathaniel Moss, 31, was caught shortly after Friday’s heist after the suspects crashed their getaway car into a trash bin and ran away.

FBI Special Agent John Gillies said the suspects made several mistakes that “gave an opportunity for law enforcement to react quickly.” He would not elaborate on those mistakes or other details of the investigation.

Alejandro Nodarse Arencibia, a 48-year-old Brink's security guard, was fatally shot when two men approached him as he carried cash from the bank to an armored truck.

Authorities want to speak with 37-year-old Terrance Brown and a third, unidentified man seen on surveillance video outside the bank trying to get into a waiting car, Mr. Gillies said. Another unidentified man is also thought to have been involved.

ILLINOIS

Medical study shows computer lap burns

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