Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Connecticut north-northwest of New Haven. Incorporated as a town in 1686, it was once a major center for brassware manufacturing.
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- noun a city in west central Connecticut
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WATERBURY -- Traffic on Interstate 84 east through Waterbury is backed up about 1 mile at this hour because of an accident near Exit 23.
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WATERBURY -- A Waterbury woman died of swine flu early Monday morning at Waterbury Hospital after a two-week hospitalization.
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WATERBURY -- A 21-year old Waterbury woman suffered serious injuries when a large tree branch fell on her as she was walking on Mansfield Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.
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WATERBURY - Police in three towns worked with the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday to arrest six people, four in Waterbury and two in Watertown, for possession of child pornography.
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WATERBURY -- For the past seven months, the Waterbury area has served as testing ground for a radical change in state-provided health care, although few people have heard about it.
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WATERBURY - The man whom the mayor of East Haven is blaming for that city's $2 million budget shortfall is starting work today in Waterbury as the financial controller of the city's water and sewer department.
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WATERBURY - Officials in Waterbury, Conn., say 16 people have been injured in an early morning fire at an apartment building for the elderly.
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WATERBURY - The 2009 Irish Mayor for the Day William McCarthy addressed the crowd Tuesday in front of the Chase Municipal Building on Grand Street, Waterbury.
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Jessica Hill/Associated Press Connecticut gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley, a Republican, posed for a photo at a campaign stop in Waterbury, Conn.,
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This years dates are May 14th-16th, and Spinhandspun will spend the weekend in Waterbury displaying images from public guerrilla knit installations, and peddling fine wooly schwag.
Art-A-Whirl, May 14th-16th, NE Minneapolis [Waterbury Building] 2010
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