UPDATED PAVING SCHEDULE FOR GRAND STREET AREA IN NIANTIC Woman charged with stealing $773K from UConn vendor system

East Lyme — The town has provided an updated schedule for paving the rest of the Grand Street area.

The town’s paving contractor has notified the town that they are behind schedule on other jobs and therefore won’t start paving the rest of the Grand Street area until Monday, Oct. 30, according to a town notice. Once the contractor begins, the paving should take three to four days to complete.

“While paving, we will do our best to minimize disturbance to the residents but please expect some minor delays,” the notice states.

“Once we finish installing the top course of pavement we will be installing asphalt curbing where needed and to fix driveways and aprons as necessary,” the notice continues. “At that time, we will also be going around the neighborhood spreading loam and applying grass seed to finish off the project.”

Residents with questions can call the Public Works Department at (860) 691-4118.

Storrs (AP) — A Georgia woman accused of stealing more than $773,000 from the University of Connecticut by hacking into the school’s vendor-payment system is in custody.

Police say 38-year-old Muthini Nzuki of Kennesaw, Ga., diverted 32 payments meant for computer vendor Dell into her personal accounts between April 13 and May 22.

Nzuki was arrested in August after returning to Georgia from an overseas trip. She was extradited to Connecticut this week and was being held on $1 million bond pending a Friday court hearing on charges including first-degree computer crime. It’s unclear if she has a lawyer.

A UConn spokeswoman says recovering the lost funds will be worked out between the school’s billing vendor and Dell.

Police say the billing system has no way to verify changes made to a vendor’s profile.