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Mother Of College Student Who Died After Charity Pancake Eating Contest Reaches Settlement With School

Mother Of College Student Who Died After Charity Pancake Eating Contest Reaches Settlement With School

The mother of a college student who died after choking during a charity pancake eating contest has reportedly reached a settlement with the Connecticut school where the tragic incident took place. Caitlin Nelson was taking part in the charity event at Sacred Heart University in 2017 when she began to choke while eating. As the […]

4y ago

Movement To Rename Yale University Goes Viral On Twitter After It Is Revealed The Founder Was A Slave Trader

Movement To Rename Yale University Goes Viral On Twitter After It Is Revealed The Founder Was A Slave Trader

A movement seeking to “cancel Yale” has gone viral on social media after it was revealed that the founder of the prestigious university, Elihu Yale, was not only a slave owner but also a slave trader. The viral movement comes as the United States faces a growing pressure to address examples of institutional racism following […]

4y ago

Jason Racz, A Connecticut Man, Accused Of Putting Razor Blades In Bags Of Halloween Candy

Jason Racz, A Connecticut Man, Accused Of Putting Razor Blades In Bags Of Halloween Candy

Jason Racz, a Connecticut resident, has been accused of putting razor blades in bags of children’s Halloween candy, Providence, Rhode Island’s WJAR-TV reports. No children were injured. On Halloween night, after the kids in Waterbury had finished trick-or-treating, at least two parents called the police to say that they had found razor blades in their […]

5y ago

Valerie Reyes’ Ex-Boyfriend Arrested In Connection To Her Death, NYC Woman’s Body Found Stuffed In A Suitcase

Valerie Reyes’ Ex-Boyfriend Arrested In Connection To Her Death, NYC Woman’s Body Found Stuffed In A Suitcase

The ex-boyfriend of Valerie Reyes, 24, has been arrested after using one of her ATM cards, police are reporting on Tuesday. Valerie Reyes’ body was found on February 5, stuffed in a suitcase, one which was dumped on the side of a Connecticut road. Javier DeSilva, 24, is named as the suspect, according to NBC […]

5y ago

Sandy Hook Anniversary Sees Elementary School Evacuated After Bomb Threat

Sandy Hook Anniversary Sees Elementary School Evacuated After Bomb Threat

Sandy Hook Elementary School, the site of a mass shooting that took the lives of 20 young students and six administrators in 2012, was evacuated after a bomb threat was sent to the school on Friday, the anniversary of the deadly killings. Newtown, Connecticut, police announced at a press conference that the school received a […]

6y ago

Connecticut Schools Issue Statement Saying Parents Are No Longer Welcome To Have Lunch With Their Children

Connecticut Schools Issue Statement Saying Parents Are No Longer Welcome To Have Lunch With Their Children

The superintendent of Darien, Connecticut, schools recently issued a statement in an email that angered the entire community. The Darien school system announced that parents were no longer allowed to come and visit their children during their lunchtime. According to NBC, the new rule was made because too many parents were making cafeteria visits and […]

6y ago

Bump Stock Ban Enacted In Connecticut One Year After Mandalay Bay Shooting

Bump Stock Ban Enacted In Connecticut One Year After Mandalay Bay Shooting

Connecticut’s new bump stock ban, inspired by the shooting in Las Vegas, takes effect today. As of Oct. 1, 2018, it will be a class D felony to have a bump stock, meaning someone holding onto one could spend up t0 five years behind bars and puts a hefty $5,000 fine on anyone selling, purchasing, […]

6y ago

Connecticut City With ‘Paul Manafort Drive’ Street Set To Vote For New Name

Connecticut City With ‘Paul Manafort Drive’ Street Set To Vote For New Name

In the city of New Britain, Connecticut, there is a street by the name of Paul Manafort Drive. Over the past year, this has become a contentious issue in the community, with some coming to hate the name, while others love it. Following Paul Manafort’s conviction during his first trial and the plea deal he […]

6y ago

Connecticut Town Sees 18 Suspected Overdoses In Just 4 Hours

Connecticut Town Sees 18 Suspected Overdoses In Just 4 Hours

New Haven, Connecticut has been rocked with a series of overdoses since Tuesday night, 18 of the cases occurring in just a little more than three-and-a-half hours. NBC-CT reports that 30 cases of sickness or overdose have been reported so far, and police are searching for a suspect. They believe the cause was a batch […]

6y ago

Two Connecticut Lunch Lady Sisters Accused Of Stealing Nearly $500K From Schools

Two Connecticut Lunch Lady Sisters Accused Of Stealing Nearly $500K From Schools

Lunch lady sisters Joanne Pascarelli, 61, and Marie Wilson, 67, have been accused of stealing nearly half a million dollars from the Connecticut school system. While the looting has been linked to the last five years, officials suspect the sisters were stealing for much longer than that. According to the New York Post, Pascarelli and […]

6y ago

McDonald’s Sign Sparks Controversy Amid Chick-Fil-A Opening

McDonald’s Sign Sparks Controversy Amid Chick-Fil-A Opening

According to the Hartford Courant, a McDonald’s in Glastonbury, Connecticut, posted a genial but interesting message on its sign ahead of the opening of a Chick-fil-A restaurant next door. The sign read, “We welcome everyone.” While this message is not inflammatory by itself, it’s proximity to the new Chick-fil-A has caught the attention of passersby. […]

6y ago

Former Chicago Clubs And Miami Marlins Player Adam Greenberg Announces Run For Public Office

Former Chicago Clubs And Miami Marlins Player Adam Greenberg Announces Run For Public Office

Ex-professional baseball player Adam Greenberg is running for the state senate in his home state of Connecticut. Greenberg is seeking to win the seat in the state’s district 12, which is in the New Haven area, and is currently held by Democrat Ted Kennedy Jr., the son of the late U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. Kennedy […]

6y ago

Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty Drops Reelection Bid After Sexual Harassment Scandal Surfaces

Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty Drops Reelection Bid After Sexual Harassment Scandal Surfaces

Elizabeth Esty, a Connecticut Democrat, has announced that she is stepping down when her term in Congress ends this year rather than run for reelection. In revelations that emerged last week, Esty came under fire for apparently keeping her chief of staff on the payroll for three months after she learned that the man allegedly […]

6y ago

Company That Made Weapon That Massacred Sandy Hook Children Files For Bankruptcy

Company That Made Weapon That Massacred Sandy Hook Children Files For Bankruptcy

The company that manufactured the weapon used by Adam Lanza to kill 26 people, including 20 first graders, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Remington Outdoor Company, which is owned by Cerberus Capital Management, filed Sunday in U. S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The […]

6y ago

Yale Student Takes Selfie With Severed Heads: Ivy League Fury Erupts Over Disrespect For Cadavers

Yale Student Takes Selfie With Severed Heads: Ivy League Fury Erupts Over Disrespect For Cadavers

Outrage ensued after a selfie emerged online of a Yale dental graduate student posing with two severed human heads that he took during a workshop at the Connecticut university. Creating a photo with a rather grotesque and gory depiction of severed heads is not what most people would expect from anyone affiliated with this university, […]

6y ago

‘Gorey’s Worlds’ Exhibition: Explore Edward Gorey’s Personal Collection Of Art That Inspired His Work

‘Gorey’s Worlds’ Exhibition: Explore Edward Gorey’s Personal Collection Of Art That Inspired His Work

Fans of the eerie and macabre work of Edward Gorey will soon be able to personally inspect and examine the art that touched and inspired the American artist when The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art hosts the “Gorey’s Worlds” exhibition, which is slated to run from February 10 to May 6, 2018 in Hartford, Connecticut. […]

6y ago

You Need To See Heather Mosher’s Wedding Pics, The Breast Cancer Patient Died Hours After Marriage

You Need To See Heather Mosher’s Wedding Pics, The Breast Cancer Patient Died Hours After Marriage

Heather Mosher, a breast cancer patient from Connecticut, got married in a hospital while she was still on life support. She died only 18 hours after exchanging vows with her boyfriend, David. Now, people are going crazy about the wedding pics. On December 22, David and Heather Mosher got married at St. Francis Hospital in […]

6y ago

Ivanka Trump Visits School And Angry Parents Rush To Pull Their Kids Out Of Class In Blue State Connecticut

Ivanka Trump Visits School And Angry Parents Rush To Pull Their Kids Out Of Class In Blue State Connecticut

Ivanka Trump wasn’t extended the warmest of welcomes from the parents of a group of high school kids during a surprise visit on Monday. The setting was an alternative high school in Norwalk, Connecticut, which is a hop, skip, and a jump from New York City by the way the crow flies. Once parents got […]

7y ago

Connecticut Man Thrown Off Bridge While Checking On Woman’s Safety: Her Boyfriend Arrested On Attempted Murder

Connecticut Man Thrown Off Bridge While Checking On Woman’s Safety: Her Boyfriend Arrested On Attempted Murder

What started out as a good deed left a man with serious injuries after he was tossed off a bridge into the icy waters below a Connecticut bridge. This incident also turned into an attempted murder charge for the man who allegedly did this. A bridge that links Shelton and Derby Connecticut was the site […]

7y ago

Man Threw Bag Containing Baby’s Body In Connecticut Reservoir To Help Girlfriend Conceal Birth

Man Threw Bag Containing Baby’s Body In Connecticut Reservoir To Help Girlfriend Conceal Birth

A man who threw a stillborn baby’s body wrapped in a plastic bag into a reservoir was charged Friday in a Connecticut courtroom. Benjamin Edgerly, 21, is facing conspiracy charges, and ill disposal of a dead body for tossing the baby’s body in that reservoir. Edgerly told Connecticut State Police that he wanted to help […]

7y ago

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