A grand jury indicted a Forney man Friday on multiple felony counts of sex crimes against children, the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

The grand jury charged Taylor Blake Craft, 24, with 12 felony offenses; the sheriff's office said he also has charges pending in Dallas and Rockwall counties.

In Kaufman County, Craft faces two counts of sexual assault of a child, two counts of online solicitation of a minor, four counts of threatening to publish intimate visual material, three counts of possession of child pornography and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Authorities were notified of Craft's online presence by police in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, after he reportedly asked on Snapchat for nude photos from an underage girl in their jurisdiction, the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office said.

Investigators determined Craft contacted several underage girls via Snapchat, the sheriff's office said. Craft reportedly contacted his victims using an account under a female's name to earn their trust and convince them to meet him, authorities said.

He also reportedly threatened to expose nude photos he'd obtained of underage girls if they refused his sexual advances, according to the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities have identified more than 15 victims, but believe there are more. Investigators asked for the public's help to identify any other minors who Craft contacted or victimized. The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office phone number is 972-932-9716.

Craft is in custody at the Kaufman County Jail, being held on bond of $2,2675,000.

The Trump administration is considering a plan to house migrant children at Fort Benning, a busy military base in Georgia, a Department of Defense spokesman told NBC News.

The Department of Health and Human Services, the agency responsible for sheltering immigrant children who cross the border without their parents, is currently operating near capacity, resulting in a backlog of children staying in overcrowded border stations.

Two sources familiar with a recent meeting on the proposal said the children would be housed away from the rest of the population but still on base. Fort Benning is a bustling military base that is home to the 75th Ranger Regiment and where thousands of young men and women go through basic training.

Since the closure of the tent facility for migrant children in Tornillo, Texas, in January, HHS has been under pressure to find alternative bed space to shelter the rising number of children crossing the border. With few contractors willing to take on the task, state facilities and military land are becoming more likely options, according to a former HHS official.

Family and friends are mourning the loss of a school bus driver killed in an East Hartford crash.

Verlean Douglas was a mother and grandmother who family says always helped others. On Tuesday, hundreds gathered for a vigil to remember her life and her spirit.

"For my mom to be gone, it hurts. It hurts so much. It's unreal," said Douglas' daughter Jozelyn Ritchens.

It was just this past Sunday that Ritchens spoke to her mom on the phone. Douglas wanted to know her daughter was OK and told her she loved her.

Two days later, Douglas' family and hundreds of others are grieving the loss of a mother of three and a grandmother of three. The 67-year-old drove a bus for four decades. She started her career working for CT Transit and about 20 years in, became a school bus driver. Her family says she loved every moment.

"Her job literally killed her, and that's what makes it tough. She died doing something that she loved," said daughter Leslie Douglas.

Leslie says on Monday morning she drove by the crash and saw a bus but thought that it couldn't be her mom. She says a phone call later that day gave her the terrible news.

State police say a four-vehicle crash involved tractor-trailers and a school bus that didn't have any children on board. Investigators say a tractor-trailer attempted to brake but couldn't stop in time and crashed into the back of the bus. The school bus then collided into the back of another tractor-trailer which collided into the back of a third tractor-trailer. The vehicle that started the chain reaction jack-knifed and caught fire which then spread to the school bus and the two other vehicles. Douglas and another driver were killed.

"It's so surreal that she's gone and she's never coming home," said Leslie.

On Tuesday family and friends came out to the East Hartford bus lot and grieved next to spot 633. It's the place where Douglas' bus should be. Mourners placed flowers, lit candles, and wrote messages of love.

"I want her to be remembered as a loving person," said Nahzyr Hughes, Douglas' grandson.

"I want my mom to be remembered as a loving, nice, caring person. A great cook, loved to drink, loved to dance, loved to have fun, loved Earth Wind & Fire, and loved her family," said Leslie.

Seeing the large crowd gathered in East Hartford on Tuesday left loved ones feeling overwhelmed. They say it shows Verlean Douglas meant so much to so many.

"I just can't believe how many people loved her. They really loved her," said Ritchens.

A pasta fundraiser is being held on Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the South Windsor Community Center on Nevers Road. It's $5 for children 10 and under and $10 for adults. The money will go to the family to help with funeral arrangements.

A mom of five from New Canaan has been missing since May 24 and the investigation and search for her are now in the 12th day. 

The last report of anyone seeing 50-year-old Jennifer Dulos was when she dropped her children off at school that morning. Court documents say Jennifer was reported missing at 7 p.m. that night.

She had missed several doctor appointments that day in New York City and her friends could not reach her, according to court records.

When police went to search Jennifer Dulos' New Canaan home, they found blood in the garage as well as on a vehicle and evidence of attempts to "clean the crime scene,"according to court documents.

The documents go on to say that led police to the suspicion that Jennifer Dulos might be the victim of a serious physical assault. 

As the search continues for Jennifer, police have arrested her estranged husband, 51-year-old Fotis Dulos, and his 44-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, in connection with the case. They have been charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution. Troconis was released on bond.

Read the court documents in the case.

Prosecutors told a judge that they expect to file additional charges.

With Jennifer missing for 12 days, her mother, Gloria Faber, on Tuesday filed for custody of her grandchildren. The children have been staying with their grandmother in New York since their mother disappeared.

A moose was spotted near Interstate 84 in West Hartford Wednesday morning and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is warning drivers about it. 

DEEP said a resident in the Peaslee Hill neighborhood saw the moose within three miles of the highway. 

According to the state DEEP website, moose are fast runners, having been clocked at 35 to 40 miles per hour, and are potentially dangerous when involved in automobile collisions. 

Learn more about moose here. 

Dozens of firefighters responded to a house fire in New Haven early Wednesday morning and three suffered minor injuries while battling the blaze.

Approximately 60 firefighters were called to the home on Elm Street around 12:40 a.m.

When crews arrived, they found heavy fire showing from the second floor and rear of the house. The five people who were inside of the home were able to get out safely, fire officials said.

Shortly after arrival, the rear stairs of the home began burning and then the third floor of the home reignited, according to firefighters.

The fire began to spread to the home next door. Crews were able to get a line up quickly and saved the other house. There was no interior damage, authorities added.

Three firefighters were transported to the hospital to be treated for minor burns and other minor injuries. One other person was also taken to the hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, fire officials said.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

An Indiana family said they were stunned when their 11-year-old son with autism was given an award for the “most annoying male” by his special education teacher.

Estella and Rick Castejon, of Gary, said their son Achilles received the award along with one other student during a fifth-grade event on May 23.

"When I saw it, I had to take a double take at it," Estella Castejon said. "I wasn’t sure if my eyes were reading it correctly."

“Bailey Preparatory Academy 2018-2019 Most Annoying Male,” the award read.

Thankfully, the parents said they don’t believe their son understood what he won the award for, despite having been bullied before.

“He wanted it just because it was a nice, shiny star,” Rick Castejon said. “That was it.”

The parents said they were shocked the staff at Bailly Preparatory Academy allowed such an award to be given to their child, who is nonverbal and can become emotional at times.

“My son is a good boy. He’s not annoying, not with me,” Estella Castejon said.

Gary Community School Corp. did not respond to NBC 5’s multiple requests for comment but told the Northwest Indiana Times in a statement that it does “not condone this type of behavior and will continue to put the safety and well-being of our students first.”

The family said the school district apologized to them and said action would be taken against the teacher. The district did not comment on the status of the teacher involved.

“[Kids with autism] just want to be liked, they just want to have fun, be treated like normal people, that’s all,” Rick Castejon said.

A man accused of giving a 13-year-old cocaine and dropping her off at a Massachusetts hospital before she died is now facing a child rape charge in connection to the case.

Carlos Rivera, 47, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was arrested May 25 after officials reviewed surveillance footage and spent days investigating the mystery of Chloe Ricard's death.

The Amesbury girl was left at Lawrence General Hospital at 4:47 p.m. on May 20 and died shortly after her arrival, according to the district attorney's office.

Rivera sexually assaulted and gave cocaine to teenage girls, the Essex County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday. The prosecutors said he also indecently assaulted a 16-year-old girl at an earlier date.

He was previously charged with two counts of distribution of cocaine to a minor, two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and one count of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.

The district attorney's office said Tuesday that Rivera has now also been charged with aggravated rape of a child. He was arraigned Tuesday morning and remains held without bail. He is scheduled to return to court for a probable cause hearing on July 2.

Prosecutors said preliminary results of evidence obtained at autopsy linked the defendant's DNA to the 13-year-old girl.

Few details have been released about the girl's mysterious death, with prosecutors even filing a motion Tuesday to have documents in the case kept private until July 1 because they still need to interview people in connection with the case.

Authorities said Chloe and another girl under the age of 16 were at Rivera's Lawrence apartment at 59 Bellevue St. on the evening of May 19 and throughout most of the next day. Investigators believe Rivera was accompanied by a third teenage girl when he took Chloe to the hospital.

An autopsy was performed two weeks ago, but the cause and manner of her death has not yet been determined.

Rivera is being represented by attorney Jeanne Earley.

Chloe Ricard was born in Vermont but spent most of her life in Northborough, Massachusetts, before moving to Amesbury two years ago. She attended Amesbury Middle School and more recently the Solstice Day School in Rowley.

"Chloe loved drawing, dancing, acro, yoga and music," her obituary said. "She was extremely creative and was an avid dancer. Among her favorite beaches was Old Orchard Beach in Maine. Chloe was especially fond of her cat Moo."

The Big E is offering a discount on this year's admission tickets during a 12 hour flash sale on Wednesday.

You can buy tickets for $8 each from 8 a.m. through 8 p.m. There is a limit of 8 tickets per order.

Each ticket is valid any one day of this year's fair, which takes place from September 13 through September 29 in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

If you order tickets during the flash sale and do not get an email confirmation right away, don't worry. Officials said due to the extreme high volume of the flash sale, email confirmations with tickets may be delayed several hours.

Once you have an online order ID on a thank you page, your order is complete, Big E officials added.

You can purchase the tickets here.

A landscaping design in the East Bay had neighbors in an uproar Tuesday as an El Sobrante man carved a massive swastika into his front yard.

The Nazi symbol could be seen in aerial views of the home owned by Steven Johnson, who claimed it’s a Tibetan symbol from centuries ago.

"It doesn’t represent anything," Johnson said. "That represents me not having to pull weeds over in that part of my yard; that’s what it represents to me. What does it represent to you?"

Neighbors see it as a swastika, and they say it’s offensive.

About six million Jews were systematically killed in the Holocaust by Germany's Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II. Millions of others were also persecuted, among them Roma, people with mental or physical disabilities, gays and lesbians, Soviet prisoners, political opponents and Jehovah's Witnesses.  

Renee Schultz, who is Jewish and has been a neighbor of Johnson‘s for 27 years, said he’s never done anything like this before.

"I was very clear with him about my feelings," she said. "I don’t agree with it; I think it’s wrong. I don’t like it, but it is his yard."

The yard also has a peace sign in it not far from other swastika-looking symbols around the doorbell.

Johnson at times expressed ignorance about the symbol associated with hatred and racism.

"What is a swastika?" he asked.

Another neighbor, Vince Poehnelt, who has known Johnson since childhood, said a lot of people are fearful, offended and afraid.

"I consider the guy harmless," Poehnelt said. "Maybe he’s a little too lazy to be a full-blown neo-Nazi."

Johnson also was asked about the swastika sticker on his motorcycle, at which point he ended the interview, telling reporters to get out of his yard.

On an otherwise quiet afternoon at Philadelphia City Hall — while children played outside in Dilworth Plaza and tourists posed for selfies — a frantic energy surrounded Room 296.

A line of people snaking out of the Office of Judicial Records pulsated with the unmistakable nervousness that comes when a city office is about to close for the day and business remains unfinished.

That line stretched back about two weeks when Philadelphia city court websites were first shut down after malware was found on a “limited number” of First Judicial District computers, according to court officials. 

“It’s terrible,” West Philadelphia resident Tyree Moment said. “There is no clear direction what to do.”

As a precaution, the Philadelphia court online system went completely dark on May 21. Its entire electronic filing system for civil and criminal cases and several email accounts were suspended. That is the same system used by attorneys to file motions and petitions. It’s also the same network people use to access their criminal filings.

Two weeks later, trying to access court websites results in a timeout for web users. Only online criminal dockets remain accessible while cyber security experts work to fix the problem. 

Court officials still don’t know when the system will be back up and running. A spokesperson for the First Judicial District — which houses the Court of Common Pleas, Municipal Court and Traffic Court — declined to comment for this story "so as not to provide any detail-specific information that could jeopardize the remediation process."

According to the last update provided by FJD, "there is no definitive timetable for when these services will be fully operational."

As a result, lawyers and residents are forced to do things the old-fashioned way: by hand and foot.

"It’s really making an impact," Philadelphia lawyer Glen Morris said. "Obviously, it’s difficult to leave one's office and come down to City Hall and to have to file like we did 20 years ago."

E-filing for civil cases has been around for eight years, and about half that time for criminal matters, according to a spokesperson from the First Judicial District. Many law firms and lawyers have gotten used to doing things online. Now, clerks and attorneys must shuffle between City Hall and their offices several times a day.

When asked if his clients are worried about their information being compromised, Morris said most of them aren’t even aware the court system is down.

"It’s more on the shoulders of attorneys," he said.

Philadelphia is one several cities recently hit by a computer virus. Last month, Baltimore City Hall servers were infected by ransonware, a nefarious subset of malware. That attack cost the city an estimated $18.2 million, according to the Baltimore Sun.

A spokesperson for the Defender’s Association of Philadelphia said that while paperwork has increased for their lawyers, no cases have been adversely affected by the ongoing computer network shutdown. The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office had a similar response.

But law clerk Sarah, who asked NBC10 not to use her last name, estimated that she had visited Room 296 two or three times every work day for two weeks.

“I could not imagine this being a part of the job,” she said. “It’s a lot. I would not have lasted.”

Walking and taking time away from the office are not the only problems, she said. Human error has become a major concern now that clerks must do everything by hand.

“Here at the court they tell you one thing and back at the office they might tell you something else,” she said.

Tyree Moment can sympathize. He first went to Room 278 to file paperwork for a civil matter. He waited in line there and when he finally got to the front, he was told to wait in another line outside Room 296. As he flipped through dozens of pages, occasionally stopping to squint, Moment shook his head.

“I’m not a lawyer,” he said. “I don’t know the legal proceedings.”

Despite the confusion, some city departments have tried to maintain the status quo. Earlier in the week, a Philadelphia judge rejected an emergency motion to postpone sheriff’s sales scheduled for June, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Homeowners can still appeal their cases individually.

Residents are also advised to check the official Philadelphia courts Twitter account for updates. On Tuesday, new URLs for paying traffic tickets were provided and can be accessed here. The Philadelphia Sheriff’s Department is also tweeting updates. 

One person in Connecticut is $1 million richer and they may not even know it yet.

Connecticut Lottery officials said one person matched all five white balls in Tuesday night's drawing. The winning numbers were 25-37-46-48-68 with a Mega Ball of 25 and a Megaplier of 2.

The winning ticket was purchased at Stop & Shop on East Town Road in Milford.

Another ticket from Tuesday night's drawing is a $20,000 winner, according to lottery officials. The ticket matched four white balls plus the Mega Ball and had the Megaplier.

In total, 15,696 tickets won $2 or more in the drawing.

Prizes must be claimed within 180 days. Prizes of $50,000 or more must be claimed at CT Lottery Headquarters, and winners need two valid forms of identification. For more information, visit the CT Lottery website.

The drawing was part of the $475 million Mega Millions jackpot, the seventh largest prize in the lottery game's history. Since nobody won in Tuesday's drawing, the jackpot jumps to at least $530 million for Friday's drawing.

The $530 million jackpot refers to the annuity option, paid over 29 years. A winner who chooses to take the cash option would receive $349.9 million, before taxes.

A northwest Indiana dairy farm has fired four employees seen in a graphic undercover video released Tuesday by an animal welfare organization showing animals being abused.

The Animal Recovery Mission called it the “largest undercover dairy investigation in history” and said the video documents “systemic and illegal abuse” at Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana.

“In our 10 years of being undercover, we have never seen such consistent, constant abuse to a newborn baby animal,” ARM Founder Richard Couto says in the video. ARM describes itself online as a "non profit investigative organization dedicated to eliminating severe animal cruelty operations.

(Video can be seen here. WARNING: the footage is graphic and may be disturbing for viewers)

ARM said an investigator spent three months undercover at the Prairies Edge North Barn after being hired as a calf care employee. The group noted that Fair Oaks Farms North Barn was not targeted, but rather the barn was the first farm to hire the investigator, who had applied to multiple dairy farms in Jasper and Newton Counties in Indiana.

“Employees were observed slapping, kicking, punching, pushing, throwing and slamming calves,” ARM said in a statement. “Calves were stabbed and beaten with steel rebars, hit in the mouth and face with hard plastic milking bottles, kneed in the spine, burned in the face with hot branding irons, subjected to extreme temperatures, provided with improper nutrition, and denied medical attention.”

The footage was released on social media (warning: footage is graphic) Tuesday, where it has since garnered more than 100,000 views on Facebook and more than 1 million views on Vimeo.

Fair Oaks Farms said in a statement that it was made aware of the undercover investigation a couple months ago and has since reviewed the footage, which they said showed “five individuals committing multiple instances of animal cruelty and despicable judgement.”

The farm said four of the five people seen in the video were employees and one was a third-party truck driver who was picking up calves. Three of the four employees were terminated before the farm was made aware of the investigation after co-workers reported abusive behavior to management, the farm said.

“Unfortunately, the fourth employee’s animal abuse was not caught at that same time,” Dr. Mike McCloskey, co-owner of Fair Oaks Farms, said in a statement.

The fourth employee has since been fired and Fair Oaks plans to report the truck driver to the company he works for, saying “he will not be allowed on our farms again.”

“I am disgusted by and take full responsibility for the actions seen in the footage, as it goes against everything that we stand for in regards to responsible cow care and comfort,” McCloskey said in a statement. “The employees featured in the video exercised a complete and total disregard for the documented training that all employees go through to ensure the comfort, safety and well-being of our animals. It is a shock and an eye-opener for us to discover that under our watch, we had employees who showed disregard for our animals, our processes and for the rule of law. This ARM video shines a light on an area that – despite our thorough training, employee on-boarding procedures and overall commitment to animal welfare – needs improvement.”

The undercover investigators also reported animals being transported to veal farms and captured footage of drug use and marijuana cultivation by employees, ARM said.

“The statement that we grow and sell drugs on our farms is false,” McCloskey’s statement read. “The plants featured in the video are an invasive perennial species that is rampant on farms all over the midwest. With that said, I am disappointed to learn of potential drug use on our properties. Months ago, the individual seen smoking by the barn and doing drugs in a truck was turned in by his co-workers to one of our managers. That manager notified local law enforcement about the drug use and, accordingly, a police report is on file.”

The Newton County Sheriff's office said it has requested the names of the employees terminated for animal cruelty as well as the identity of the witness who "failed to report this activity for some time." 

"We acknowledge the need for humane treatment of animals and the need to hold individuals that have gone beyond an acceptable farm management practice accountable for their actions," the sheriff's office said in a statement. 

It added that it plans to work with the prosecutor's office to file charges for "any criminal activity the indpendent investigation revealed." 

Jewel-Osco said Wednesday it was pulling Fairlife products from its shelves following the video's release. Chicago-based Fairlife is owned by Fair Oaks Farms Founder Mike McCloskey, and uses Fair Oaks Farms as its flagship.

The farm said a full investigation is ongoing “during and after which disciplinary action will be taken, including termination and criminal prosecution, of any and all employees and managers who have violated either our animal care practices or the law or both.”

“It is with a heavy heart that I prepare this statement today. As a veterinarian whose life and work is dedicated to the care, comfort and safety of all animals, this has affected me deeply,” McCloskey said. “I am disappointed for not being aware of this kind of awful treatment occurring and I take full responsibility for what has happened. I also take full responsibility to correct and ensure that every employee understands, embraces and practices the core values on which our organization stands.”

Former Vice President Joe Biden's stance on abortion has grown more supportive over the decades. But his past opposition to most federal funding for abortion services is more striking than his supporters may be aware of, according to an analysis of his Senate record by NBC News. 

The one-time U.S. senator from Delaware opposed Medicaid to fund abortion services with exceptions for victims of rape and incest, in addition to concerns for the woman's life, back in 1977. The rape and incest exceptions passed in that case, but Biden voted in 1981 to again remove them, in what was the most far-reaching ban on federal funds ever enacted by Congress. Biden also voted to prevent federal workers from using health services on abortion services, except in cases to save the life of the mother. 

Biden, a Roman Catholic who personally opposes abortion, recently told supporters in an email that "I refuse to impose my religious beliefs on other people." 

But his campaign confirmed to NBC News that he still supports the four-decade-old Hyde Amendment which bans federal funding for abortion services except in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the woman, setting him apart from other Democratic candidates running for president.

Police are investigating a report of the attempted abduction and sexual assault of a 9-year-old girl after a man pulled her from her bus stop and into a Bridgeport church. 

Police said they received a report of a possible abduction between 8 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. on Thursday, May 30 and the 9-year-old girl said she was waiting for her school bus at the corner of Logan Street and Stratford Avenue when a man approached her and tried to pull her into the back of Pentecostal Church of Prayer & Deliverance on Stratford Avenue. 

When the man could not pull the girl, he picked her up, and carried her to the back of the church and into an empty stairwell, where he tried to lift her dress and touch her, according to police. 

The girl stepped on the man’s foot, yelled and was able to run away, police said. 

As the man walked away, he covered his head with a black hooded sweatshirt that he was wearing. 

He was described as skinny and 5-feet-10 to 6-foot-1. In addition to the sweatshirt, he was wearing sneakers with red and white soles. 

He has dreadlocks with blondish tips that went to his mid-waist, police said. 

Anyone with information is asked to call the Bridgeport Police Department’s Detective. 

Part of the investigation into a missing New Canaan woman is centered on a trash facility in Hartford, where police are sifting through shredded material in the search for potential evidence in the case. Wednesday will likely be the last day state police are there in connection with the search for 50-year-old Jennifer Dulos. 

Connecticut state police have been searching at Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority in Hartford for evidence as they investigate the disappearance of the 50-year-old mother of five young children who has been missing since May 24. 

A source tells NBC Connecticut that troopers are specifically looking for evidence that might have been picked up by a garbage truck and shredded inside the facility days after Jennifer disappeared. 

According to court documents, surveillance cameras picked up video of a pickup similar to one owned by Jennifer’s estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, and shows the truck stopping more than 30 times over a four-mile stretch of Albany Avenue in Hartford and a man pitting garbage bags to trash cans. The documents also say that state police found several bags they say contained clothing and a kitchen sponge that were covered in Jennifer Dulos’ blood. 

READ THE COURT DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE

Sources say the garbage that was discarded along Albany Avenue the night Jennifer Dulos disappeared and picked up by a garbage collector four days later has gotten through the shredding process. 

An employee of MIRA who saw the state police investigation said 20 state troopers have been using heavy equipment as they search through an area where shredded material is being kept. 

The slow and precise investigation includes sifting through shredded garbage that is stored as fuel for the power plant. Half a bucket full of material is spilled out onto a floor, according to a MIRA employee, and police are using K9s to sniff through it. 

Wednesday is likely the last day state troopers will be at the Hartford trash facility as they go through the final pile of shredded material. 

Fotis Dulos and his 44-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, have both been arrested in connection with the missing person case and were charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence and hindering prosecution in the first degree in connection to the missing person case. Fotis remains in police custody and has been ordered to have no contact with Jennifer’s family or his children. 

Troconis was released on bond. 

Jennifer’s mother, Gloria Farber, has filed for custody of Jennifer and Fotis’ five children but no change was made in custody during a status conference Wednesday. 

A hearing will be scheduled for another date. 

The Hartford Yard Goats came close to what Minor League Baseball said would have been the team’s first no-hitter Tuesday night until a bunt in the top of the ninth inning broke that streak. It came from the bat of a player from the New York Yankees Double-A affiliate Trenton Thunder.

Four pitchers, Rico Garcia, Jordan Foley, Logan Cozart and Ben Bowden, took the mound and struck out batters, one by one, until the second batter the Yard Goats faced in the top of the ninth inning. 

Matt Lipka, of the Trenton Thunder, took the batter’s box, bunted off a pitch from Bowden and ran until tagging first base in the nick of time.

After Lipka, Bowden struck out the next two batters, securing the 3-0 win for the Colorado Rockies Double-A affiliate.

After the final pitch, some Yard Goats players exchanged words with Lipka and the benches both cleared, but that was the end of it. 

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A raccoon caught on Madison Avenue in Meriden tested positive for rabies.

The raccoon tested positive on Tuesday, according to the City of Meriden Department of Health & Human Services.

Find more information about rabies on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. 

Vernon police have arrested a nurse accused of sexually assaulting a pregnant woman.

Police arrested 26-year-old Robert Tate Wednesday. He was charged with first-degree sexual assault, third-degree sexual assault, third-degree assault on a pregnant person, and criminal possession of a firearm/ammunition/electronic defense weapon.

According to police, the investigation began when the victim went to UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester in March for treatment after an alleged sexual assault.

The victim, who was known to Tate, reported that Tate overpowered her and forced her to have sex against her will when she went to his home to speak with him on March 19, 2019. The victim obtained an emergency restraining order against Tate.

According to the arrest warrant application, the victim was 22 and a half weeks pregnant and suffered vaginal bleeding and cramping that she said was the result of an assault.

The warrant states that the victim showed investigators text messages between her and Tate that referenced the assault. She provided a statement to police that read, in part “He said this was a punishment and that he was going to bring me to the basement to tie me up and if I did not go he was going to bring me down there by force.”

The victim told police she told Tate she did not want to have sex multiple times and that she wanted to run away, but she was afraid if she fought to hard he might harm her or the baby.

When investigators interviewed Tate, he said that he spoke to the victim about having sex before she came to his home. He denied using force and claimed the sex was consensual.

Court documents state that Tate was a nurse at Hartford Hospital. The victim told police that he once told her he knew “how to kill someone by mixing two drugs together and injecting it between someone’s toes.” The victim also told police that Tate gave her herpes.

The documents provide details on Tate’s relationships with other women, and at least one told police that he would force to have sex or restrain her during sex despite her saying no. The documents also detail what police described as "manipulative" and "abusive" behavior by Tate toward other women.

Tate was held on a $150,000 bond and is due in court on Thursday.

NBC Connecticut Responds helped a Waterford man get his refund after Best Buy’s Geek Squad service tech couldn’t assist him with his email problem.

Daniel O’Brien of Waterford says he bought a laptop through an online retailer and set it up, but ran into a problem with his email.

“Rather than drive myself nuts, let’s call the Geek Squad,” he said.

O’Brien didn’t purchase the computer through Best Buy, but signed up with their Geek Squad service to get his email up and running.

“I paid for Paypal and I think the next day they charged my account. And then, several days later the Geek Squad guy came out,” said O’Brien.

O’Brien paid $99 for the service, according to his invoice. But he said the service tech couldn’t set up the email and promised him a $99 credit.

“I said fine. So, I waited two or three weeks,” said O’Brien.

O’Brien said he checked his credit card statement on line for the refund and didn’t see it.

After calling several departments to get a reimbursement, he went to the Best Buy store to speak with a Geek Squad manager.

“He said if you had booked this through us, I could help you. But because you booked it on line, I can’t help you,” said O’Brien.

Upset and getting nowhere, O’Brien turned to NBC Connecticut Responds and we went to work.

We reached Best Buy and in a statement, they told us:

“Bottom line, we didn’t take care of Mr. O’Brien the way we should have. As soon as we became aware of the situation, we immediately worked with him to provide a full refund.”

After that intervention, O’Brien finally received his $99 credit to his account.

His response to getting a resolution? “I felt, I felt jubilant,” said O’Brien. “That was a great experience. A great experience.”