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EDSALL BOWL
LYLE MCCOMBS, HUSKIES EDGE FORMER COACH, MARYLAND, 24-21, PAGE 1C

Football U.S. SCRAMBLES TO RUSH booster SPIES, DRONES TO LIBYA clubs blitzed
CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
BY ALIA MALIK
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

RAIDERS BLANK CATS

TORRINGTON NIPS SEYMOUR, 1-0, IN GIRLS SOCCER, PAGE 2C

Naugatuck scandal spurs CIAC scrutiny

Fresh start for lead program

After several months of delay and in the wake of a federal probe, the citys Healthy Homes lead reduction program is finally handing out new grants. PAGE 1B
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Libyan followers of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades chant anti-U.S. slogans during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islams Prophet Muhammad. One of the leading suspects in an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans is the Libyan-based Islamic militant group Ansar al-Shariah, led by former Guantanamo detainee Sufyan bin Qumu.

Justice for ambassador, 3 others may not be swift due to chaotic scene, limited resources
Watertown homes on display
Five homes, including this circa-1805 home dubbed Campsie, will be featured on the Watertown House Tour on Sept. 29. Look in the Home section for a preview. PAGE 1D
across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Much of the team dispatched to Libya during the WASHINGTON The U.S. revolution had been sent onis sending more spies, Marines ward to the Syrian border, U.S. and drones to Libya, trying to officials say. And the Libyans have barely speed the search for those who re-established full killed the U.S. am>> al-Qaida calls control of their bassador and three for more attacks country, much less other Americans, rebuilt their intellibut the investigation on U.S. embassies, Page 5A. gence service, less is complicated by a than a year after chaotic security picture in the post-revolutionary the overthrow of dictator country and limited American Moammar Gadhafi. The U.S. has already deand Libyan intelligence reployed an FBI investigation sources. The CIA has fewer people team, trying to track al-Qaida available to send, stretched sympathizers thought to be rethin from tracking conflicts sponsible for turning a demonBY KIMBERLY DOZIER
AP INTELLIGENCE WRITER

Hospital recognizes OLeary

Saint Marys Hospital Foundation honored Waterbury Mayor Neil M. OLeary as its 2012 champion recently. Check out photos from the event in Social Moments. PAGE 6E

stration over an anti-Islamic video into a violent, coordinated militant attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other embassy employees were killed after a barrage of small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars tore into the consulate buildings in Benghazi on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of 9/11, setting the buildings on fire. President Barack Obama said in a Rose Garden statement the morning after the attack that those responsible would be brought to justice. See LIBYA, Page 4A

By now, everyone in Naugatuck knows the tale: A booster club president gave $1,000 to the struggling mother of two football players planning a transfer to Naugatuck High School, unaware that he was committing multiple recruiting violations. The incident is one factor leading the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference to consider new regulations for the booster clubs that raise money for athletics and activities at local schools. There have always been concerns about equity, Executive Director Karissa L. Niehoff said. Some booster clubs wield tremendous power in their districts and towns, whereas other sports dont have strong support. The CIAC makes recommendations to athletic directors concerning booster clubs, pushing for financial transparency and a system that does not heavily fund some sports and programs while ignoring the needs of others. But those recommendations are suggestions without teeth, Niehoff said. The board has not yet formally discussed crafting enforceable rules, but Niehoff said she expects those conversations to begin by the November monthly meeting. The CIAC could consider requiring schools to have a booster club for all athletics, instead of several that focus on individ-

OPINION OF THE DAY: As an American who served this country, I am tired of those Americans whose actions belie those of honorable citizens, whose rhetoric is holier than thou, and whose service to this country was or is nonexistent. For those voting on Nov. 6, lest you forget what this country stands for, those representing it damn well had better do so with honor. Peter Polstein, Oxford
READ THE FULL LETTER ON PAGE 9A

See BOOSTER, Page 4A

State gains attention for clean energy development

BY DAVID KRECHEVSKY
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

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What gridlock in Washington, D.C., has prevented, Connecticut has done. Thats the opinion of the Brookings-Rockefeller Project on State and Metropolitan Innovation, which last week released a report citing Connecticut for creating what the report calls a clean energy bank that will use state funding to attract private investment for clean energy projects. According to the report titled State Clean Energy Finance Banks: New Investment Facilities for Clean Energy Development, Connecticut is among just a handful of states that, unlike the federal government, are stepping up and developing sophisticated efforts to deploy clean energy. The state did this, the report notes, by consolidating its funding for energy efficiency and clean-energy projects under one quasi-public agency, the Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority, or CEFIA, which was created by the legislature last year. An example of what the new agency, based in Rocky Hill, can do is expected to be announced Monday. CEFIA officials said Friday they plan to unveil a program called Cam-

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I Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority: www.ctcleanenergy.com (shown above) I GreenerU: www.greeneru.com I Brookings Institution: www.brookings.edu/about/ projects/state-metro-innovation

Bottles of water chill in a cooler inside LaBonnes Market in Watertown on Friday. Concord, Mass., has become the first community in the nation to ban the sale of serving-size bottled water.

TROUBLE OVER BOTTLED WATER

One towns ban stirs debate
BY ANDREW LARSON
REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN

pus Efficiency Now, which will initiate energy-efficiency measures at three or four independent colleges in the state. According to David Goldberg, a CEFIA spokesman, the agency is working to institute the program with the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, an association of 16 private institutions, including not only Yale and Quinnipiac universities, but also Albertus Magnus College in New Haven See ENERGY, Page 4A

ctivists are encouraging residents to avoid the water the kind that comes in a plastic container. Bottled water, often marketed as a superior alternative to tap, is facing increasing criticism as a consequence of studies pointing to the damage plastic bottles can inflict on the environment and the higher quality of tap water compared to its packaged counterparts. Many state and local governments, along with private businesses, are switching from

bottled water to the public supply as their primary source of drinking water. I think what has happened is through aggressive marketing, the water industry has convinced people that the only way to get safe, drinkable is a plastic bottle, said Adam Macon, a national campaign organizer with Corporate Accountability International. There is definitely a trend of cities and towns across the country phasing out taxpayer spending on bottled water. The town of Concord, Mass., has taken the matter a step fur-

See BOTTLED, Page 4A

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