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Police: Drunken driver arrested going wrong way on Route 8

State police say they've arrested a drunken driver for going the wrong way for 12 miles on Route 8 overnight. Troopers say 64-year-old Walter Ciepiela, of Shelton, was going south in the northbound

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Aug 9, 2016, 2:29 PM

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