Nor'easter: Connecticut Power Outages Spike With Second Storm

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Power outages spiked slightly in Connecticut as a nor'easter hit the state just nine days after Superstorm Sandy raked the Northeast. Connecticut Light & Power and United Illuminating reported 1,074 outages on Thursday morning, up slightly from Wednesday morning before the autumn snowstorm arrived. CL&P is a unit of Northeast Utilities and United Illuminating is a unit of UIL Holdings Corp. As with Sandy, most of the outages were in shoreline towns that were hit by ...