State Police Issue More Than 3,000 Tickets Over Long Weekend

(CBS Connecticut) – State police have recorded two fatalities during stepped up Thanksgiving weekend enforcement efforts that began early Wednesday and continue through Sunday night.
A woman was killed in a one-vehicle crash early Wednesday on Route 6 in Killingly. Hope Butler, 26, of Warwick, Rhode Island was pronounced dead at Day Kimball Hospital in Putnam after her vehicle struck a tree near the intersection with Dark Lantern Road around 1:40 a.m., said police.
Early Saturday, a Wether