Connecticut

By the busload and planeload, National Guard troops were pouring into the nation's capital on Jan. 16, as governors answered the urgent pleas of U.S. defense officials for more troops to help safeguard Washington even as they keep anxious eyes on possible violent protests in their own states.

A Connecticut man charged with murdering his estranged wife was hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after being found unresponsive in a vehicle inside his garage, authorities said.

The estranged husband of a missing mother of five, Fotis Dulos (center), has been the focus of intense media scrutiny since last week when he was arraigned on murder and kidnapping charges by Stamford Superior Court in the US state of Connecticut. Greek-American Dulos had been previously charged with evidence tampering.

Two additional suitors have appeared for the casino planned for the old Athens airport site at Elliniko. Sources say that they are Miura Holdings, based in Las Vegas, and Clairvest, based in Toronto.

Caesars Entertainment (US), Groupe Lucien Barriere (France), Mohegan Sun (US) and Hard Rock (US) have also expressed an interest in the casino.

A group of graduate students from Yale university has announced they will be going on a “symbolic” hunger strike to gain more benefits from the administration, according to The Washington Free Beacon.

Weapons and munitions manufacturers from Canada, the United States, South Korea and South Africa are considering setting up operations in the Philippines once its first defense economic zone is launched, a senior government official said on June 23. Rheinmetall Denel Munition of South Africa and a unit of South Korea's ST Holdings Co.