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AMERICA'S OLDEST CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHED NEWSPAPER liarp vo II ouran AETNA-HUMANA MERGER No Word Yet On Hartford Workforce Executives Won't Make Predictions On What Effect Deal Will Have On 6,100 Jobs In State Mark Bertolini said in response to a question from a Goldman Sachs analyst. The analyst suggested that would be logical, in addition to jobs eliminated in "the public company infrastructure that's duplicative." "You're in the right direction in the way you're thinking about it," Bertolini said. When asked Monday whether the lack of AETNA, A5 Medicare, Medicaid and military insurance, known as TRICARE, will be headquartered in Louisville after the merger, which the companies expect to happen in the second half of 2016. Those programs are projected to total 56 percent of the company's revenues. "We anticipate, given the size of the revenue, we'll at least maintain employment if not increase it" in Louisville, said Shawn Guertin, Aetna's chief financial officer, in a conference call with financial analysts Monday morning.

By contrast, an Aetna spokeswoman said it was too soon for the company to talk about employment in Hartford and declined to make an executive available for an interview. Some Hartford jobs held by people who manage Medicaid and Medicare programs are likely to shift to Louisville, while some jobs in commercial insurance in Kentucky are likely to move to Hartford, Aetna CEO By MARA LEE maraleecourant.com In the first public discussion of the merger announced Friday, Aetna executives made no predictions on how Hartford employment would change but said they expect the size of Humana's Louisville workforce will not to shrink at all, and might grow. Humana has 12,500 employees in Louisville; Aetna has 6,100 in Connecticut. MISSING CHILD FEARS REALIZED River Searched For Baby; Mother Sought Restraining Order Vs. Father COURT RECORDS: Cosby Gave Woman Drugs Testimony Came In Assault Lawsuit By JEREMY ROEBUCK Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA Bill Cosby testified that he gave powerful sedatives to a 19-year-old woman in 1976 before the two had what he described as consensual sex, according to court filings unsealed Mon day from a 2005 lawsuit.

The 77-year-old comedian said under oath that he obtained seven prescriptions for Quaaludes, a depressant, with the intent to use them in Cosby sexual encounters with women. He later clarified, saying he gave them to only the one woman the 19-year-old, who he met backstage at a Las Vegas comedy show. He maintained that the woman knew what drugs she was taking at the time. "I give her Quaaludes. We then have sex," Cosby said.

"I can't judge at this time what she knows about herself for LAUREN SCHNEIDERMAN I LSCHNEIDERMANCOURANT.COM CREWS SEARCHED the Connecticut River in Middletown Monday for 7-month-old Aaden Moreno. Police say the child had been with his father, Tony Moreno, who jumped from the Arrigoni Bridge late Sunday. Visit courant.commiddletownsearch for more photos. COSBY, A5 AVON child custody case involving Aaden's parents. The records show the baby's mother, Adrianne Oyola, applied for a restraining order against Moreno on June 17.

Oyola wrote in the application that she and Moreno were happy until she became pregnant, and he began to verbally abuse, threaten and push her. "He has told me he could make my son disappear any time of the day," she wrote. "He told me how he could make me disappear told me how he could kill me. I sometimes am scared to sleep. He told me he would put me in the ground and put something on me to make me disintegrate faster." "I can't bring the baby around my family without Moreno's approval, but he could do anything he wants without letting me know," she wrote.

"I feel that he is a danger BABY, A5 By SHAWN R. BEALS and CHRISTINE DEMPSEY sbealscourant.com MIDDLETOWN The mother of a baby police say likely died after plunging into the Connecticut River Sunday asked authorities weeks ago for a restraining order against the child's father because she feared for the safety of the boy and herself, court records indicate. Crews began searching the river for 7-month-old Aaden Moreno late Sunday. The child's father, Tony Moreno, 22, jumped from the Arrigoni Bridge and survived, police said. He has not been charged.

Moreno's family called police about 11:45 p.m. on Sunday to say that he was threatening to commit suicide and that he had the baby with him, police spokeswoman Lt. Heather Desmond said. Court records indicate there is an open Suspect In Sex Assault In Custody Cops: Man Worked Near Bicycle Trail PHOTO COURTESY CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE THE SEARCH for 7-month-old Aaden Moreno shifted from a rescue to a recovery operation, police said Monday afternoon. B4, C7 D5 BUSINESS A8 COMICS OBITUARIES B6-B8 PUBLIC NOTICES CLASSIFIED C7 LOTTERY A2 OPINION A10.A11 PUZZLES DONATE YOUR CAR Wheels For Wishes Benefiting A-Rod Misses Out Alex Rodriguez, suspended all of last season, will be an outsider again for the All-Star Game as his name is not among the I ist of reserves announced.

Sports, Page CI Pressure Still On Despite carrying a popular vote against austerity, Greece's leaders still face the urgent need to heal ties with European creditors and reach a financial rescue deal to prevent it from falling out of the euro possibly within days. World Nation, Page A3 By DAVID OWENS and KEN BYRON dowenscourant.com AVON The Massachusetts man accused of sexually assaulting a woman along the popular Farmington Canal trail on June 25 is employed by a portable-toilet company and was in the area working, authorities and Avon's town manager said Monday. Avon police said Monday that they had obtained an arrest warrant charging Luis J. Ortiz-Morales, 29, of Chicopee, with first-degree sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping. He was being held without bail after his arraignment in Massachusetts Monday on a fugitive from justice charge.

He waived extradition in Chicopee District Court and could be turned over to Avon police as early as Tuesday. Ortiz-Morales works for United Site Services, a company that rents and services portable toilets, Avon Town Manager Brandon Robertson said. Avon contracts with the company to SUSPECT, A5 Make-A-Wish Connecticut Former Intern Killed Police arrest a Washington, D.C., man in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Trumbull native and former intern for Connecticut congressman Jim imes. Connecticut, Page Bl UTC Expanding United Technologies Corp. intends to create 380 jobs and build a state-of-the-art facility in South Florida for its building and industrial systems unit after receiving incentives from the state and local governments.

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