In a case dubbed the "Fitbit murder," a Connecticut man was sentenced to 65 years in prison Thursday for the 2015 fatal shooting of his wife at their home.

During his trial, Richard Dabate concocted a story that two days before Christmas, a masked intruder broke into their home, killed his wife, Connie Dabate, and tied him up, the Associated Press reported.

According to the news outlet, law enforcement said the timeline Dabate gave them did not match the data on Connie Dabate's Fitbit, which showed her moving around an hour after she was supposedly shot.

Police also added that the news outlet reported no signs of a struggle inside the residence.

According to the Associated Press, prosecutors said Richard Dabate chose to kill his wife because details of his affair with another woman he got pregnant at the time of the killing were about to unravel.

The 46-year-old was convicted in May by a jury, the Associated Press reported.

The news outlet reported that Debate plans to appeal, claiming he's innocent and saying someone else killed his wife.

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The Connecticut Department of Public Health says it has suspended the license of a doctor who was allegedly mailing blank and signed COVID-19 vaccine exemption forms to people who requested them.

In a press release on Friday, the department said it had suspended the physician and surgeon licenses of Dr. Sue Mcintosh, a retired doctor from Durham, Connecticut.

The department alleged Mcintosh was mailing blank and signed forms that would grant a patient the ability to thwart COVID-19 vaccine mandates, testing requirements or mask mandates.

"Dr. Mcintosh provided these forms without ever seeing a patient, and the paperwork was sent to anyone who supplied a self-addressed stamped envelope to her," the department wrote in its press release.

Documents provided by the health department show that the agency received an anonymous tip regarding the alleged scheme in late July. In September, investigators sent Mcintosh a letter with a self-addressed stamped envelope and received the blank medical exemption forms in the mail.

According to documents provided by the state, Mcintosh would send the signed and blank forms back to patients along with a note that read "keep blank copies for yourself for future use," and, "let freedom ring!"

She also encouraged people to copy and distribute the forms "as you wish to anyone."

"These actions by Dr. Mcintosh are irresponsible and unacceptable," Connecticut Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Manisha Juthani said in a statement. "Her practice of medicine represents a clear and immediate danger to the public health and safety of our communities. The suspension of her license should serve as a warning to other practitioners that this conduct deviates from the standard of care and is subject to serious discipline."

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A Connecticut woman who walked directly on thermal features at Yellowstone National Park in July was sentenced to seven days in jail, prosecutors said.

Madeline S. Casey, 26, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor offense, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Wyoming.

"Although a criminal prosecution and jail time may seem harsh, it's better than spending time in a hospital's burn unit," acting U.S. Attorney Bob Murray said.

In July at the park's Norris Geyser Basin, Casey and another person left a protective walkway, approached a thermal pool and walked directly on the ground. Signs nearby instruct visitors to remain on the boardwalk.

"The ground is fragile and thin and scalding water just below the surface can cause severe or fatal burns. More than 20 people have died from burns suffered after they entered or fell into Yellowstone's hot springs," park spokesperson Morgan Warthin said in the statement.

A judge ordered Casey to pay $2,040 in fines, fees and community service, according to court documents. Her jail time must be served by Jan. 31, 2022, and she is banned from the park during her two-year probation.

Casey and her attorney, Ryan Wright, did not respond to CNN's request for comment Thursday.

Officials have been stressing the importance of adhering to safety signs at the national park.

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In May last year, a woman was burned after falling into a thermal feature at Yellowstone when it was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. She told park rangers she was moving back to take photos when she fell at the Old Faithful Geyser, one of the most famous geysers in the world.

Two men last year were caught trespassing on the cone of Old Faithful, which is a closed thermal area. They were sentenced to 10 days in jail and five years of probation. They were also ordered to pay $540 restitution and banned from the park for five years.

"Visitors must realize that walking on thermal features is dangerous, damages the resource, and illegal," Park Chief Ranger Sarah Davis said regarding their sentencing. "Law enforcement officers take this violation seriously."

Julie Tinetti and Cassandra Madison first met when they worked together at a bar in New Haven, Connecticut. They grew to be fast friends — they found out they were both adopted, had tattoos honoring their native Dominican Republic and were both raised by single mothers.

They often joked that they were so similar that they could be sisters. Now, nearly a decade after they first met, they have proof.

Tinetti and Madison met while working at The Russian Lady in 2013 and instantly connected as friends. Even coworkers noted how similar the two were.

“I looked at both of them and I was like, ‘You two look alike, like are you guys sisters?’” their former coworker Courtney Ritchotte told WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut.

Even when Madison moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia in 2015, she and Tinetti stayed in touch.

The two always suspected that they may be related, given they had both been adopted from the same country within a few months of each other. But it wasn’t until Tinetti realized that there may have been mistakes on her adoption papers that she began to investigate.

Tinetti’s childhood friend, Molly Sapadin, was also adopted from the Dominican Republic. Their adopted mothers were friends, and according to ABC News, an investigation of their adoption papers showed that they had the same last name, and same person listed as their mother However, a DNA test later revealed that Sapadin and Tinetti were only third cousins, not sisters — leading the two to conclude that Tinetti's adoption papers were wrong.

In 2018, Madison traveled to the Dominican Republic to do more research on her family background. There, she met her biological father, who revealed that he and Madison's mother had given her up for adoption because they were struggling to care for her brother, who was sick.

That’s when Madison’s father revealed that the family had given up another daughter for adoption. Madison quickly called Tenetti and urged her to get a DNA test.

The results came back on Jan. 28 and confirmed the two were biological sisters with the same mother and father. Their story later got viral fame when Madison shared her story on TikTok.

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"It's exciting. We've got one more sister," Madison told ABC News. "Especially since Julia [Tinetti] and I were already friends."

"Still processing the magnitude of the situation," Tinetti said. "This is the type of thing you see on TV. Finding my biological family just wasn't a thing for me. I grew up with a great family, so I just kind of left it to what it was."

Video above: SCOTUS Will Allow Sandy Hook Families to Sue Remington

In the volume of pretrial data turned over by bankrupted Remington to nine Sandy Hook families suing for wrongful marketing, lawyers said they found 18,000 random cartoons and 15,000 irrelevant pictures of people go-karting and dirt-biking.

“Having repeatedly represented to the (families) and this court that it was devoting extensive resources to making what it described as “substantial” document productions … Remington has instead made the plaintiffs wait years to receive cartoon images, gender reveal videos, and duplicate copies of catalogues,” reads a complaint filed by the families’ lawyers in state Superior Court last week. “There is no possible reasonable explanation for this conduct.”

The complaint, the latest in the 7-year battle by the Sandy Hook families to hold accountable the maker of the AR-15-style rifle used in the 2012 shootings, does not allege that all 46,000 documents turned over by Remington are irrelevant.

“When the seemingly random cartoons, images, videos, duplicates, and other items noted are accounted for, Remington, it would seem, has spent the better part of seven years producing 6,606 potentially useful documents in response to the plaintiffs’ requests,” the court complaint reads.

Reached on Tuesday for comment, Remington’s lead attorney did not respond specifically to the cartoons, some of which the families submitted to the judge — including images of Santa, a farmer, a weightlifter, and a bowl of ice cream.

“(Remington) will respond to this motion in the coming weeks, and point out what it believes are incorrect representations, numerous half-truths, and important omissions by (families’) counsel,” Remington lead attorney James Vogts said Tuesday.

The families’ attorneys argued that Remington’s purpose seemed clear.

“Remington’s … effort to lard its document production with cartoons and duplicate catalogues sends a strong message about the real motive here,” the families’ attorneys wrote. “Remington is desperate to avoid a true review of the internal and external communications detailing its abusive marketing practices.”

From the start of the lawsuit in 2014, Remington has argued that it manufactured a legal firearm that was distributed lawfully and sold legally to Nancy Lanza, who left the rifle in an unlocked closet. It was her son, Adam Lanza, not the gun-maker, who was responsible for the murders of 26 first-graders and educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Remington said.

Remington made national news last summer when it declared bankruptcy for the second time in two years and was sold for $159 million to Fairfield-based Sturm Ruger and six other companies. A federal bankruptcy judge assured the Sandy Hook families that some of the sale proceeds would be dedicated to keeping the gun-maker’s insurance intact.

The families’ lawsuit, which has been thrown out of state Superior Court, reinstated by Connecticut Supreme Court and turned down for review by the U.S. Supreme Court is back in trial court after Remington’s bankruptcy, with jury selection scheduled for September.

For the moment, the families’ attorneys want a court order compelling Remington to abide by its agreement to turn over all the marketing data they’ve requested.

“Remington has treated discovery as a game,” the families’ lawyers said. “Unwilling to have this case decided by a jury on the merits with a full record, Remington has sought delay and obfuscation at every turn.”