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Judge orders VA to pay CT man $9.47 million for medical malpractice FacebookTwitterEmail The U.S. Veterans Administration hospital in West HavenLiz Teitz / BRIDGEPORT — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Veterans Administration to pay more than $9 million to a Manchester man after finding he was the victim of medical malpractice at the Veterans Affairs medical center where he had gone for hernia surgery. Following a four-day civil trial, U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden ruled Monday ...

Published January 21. 2021 9:26PM  By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press HARTFORD — Federal prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for a Connecticut drug dealer convicted for his role in the killings of three people beaten to death in a turf dispute over crack cocaine sales. The U.S. attorneys office notified Azibo Aquarts lawyer about its decision late last month, according to a document filed Tuesday in federal court in New Haven. A spokesperson for federal prosecutors in Connecti...

Feds no longer seeking death penalty in triple killing By DAVE COLLINSJanuary 21, 2021 GMT HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for a Connecticut drug dealer convicted for his role in the killings of three people beaten to death in a turf dispute over crack cocaine sales. The U.S. attorney’s office notified Azibo Aquart’s lawyer about its decision late last month, according to a document filed Tuesday in federal court in New Haven. A spokesper...

Shooting by law enforcement task force in Hartford under investigation Shooting by law enforcement task force in Hartford under investigation January 06, 2021 04:16PM   HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Authorities in Connecticut are investigating a shooting Wednesday by a federal and local law enforcement task force in Hartford, where agents and officers went to arrest a man with a history of possessing illegal firearms, according to federal officials. Spokesmen for the FBI and U.S. attorneyâ€...

Fatal shooting by police task force under investigation January 6, 2021 GMT HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Members of a federal and local law enforcement task force shot a person to death Wednesday in Connecticut’s capital city while trying to arrest another man with a history of illegally possessing firearms, authorities said. The person who was shot in Hartford’s North End was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, city and state police said. No law enforcement officers were injured. It was t...