A 30-year-old Hartford University employee was sentenced to ten years, suspended after one, in prison for stabbing a man last summer. Matthew Walker, who worked at the university’s Center for Social Research, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault over a July 2011 incident involving his son and his son’s mother. During his sentencing on Friday, Judge [...]

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A 14-year-old British boy, who admitted to raping a 77-year-old woman moments after knocking on her front door to talk to her about the war, has been sentenced to two years in custody. Authorities say the teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, knocked on the victim’s door in November 12, 2011, and [...]

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A Connecticut family is suing their son’s former pediatrician claiming that because the doctor failed to diagnose their 9-year-old son’s illness correctly he is now permanently blind. Katherine Modzinski said when she took her then 7-year-old son Adam to see Dr. Judy Huang-Bulger at Vernon Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine in 2009; she was told that [...]

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A Connecticut associate medical examiner has pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied under oath in a Massachusetts court about autopsy results. Details of the case that Dr. Frank Evangelista is accused of giving false information about have been impounded and set aside from public scrutiny under Massachusetts law. Dr. Evangelista, who testified in [...]

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A 38-year-old Canadian man pleaded guilty to staging more than 12 car accidents and defrauding insurance companies of more than $1million. Uthayakanthan Thirunavukkarasu, also known as Max or Mano, pleaded guilty on Friday to participating in a criminal organization, proceeds of crime, criminal negligence causing bodily harm and fraud. He is scheduled to be sentenced [...]

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