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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 that doctors at the West Haven VA violated their standard of care in their treatment of Eric March. ...

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. 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 spokesperson for federal prosecutors in Connecticut had no immediate comment Thursday. Aquart, now 39, was sentenced to death in 2012 for the 2005...

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 spokesperson for federal prosecutors in Connecticut had no immediate comment Thursday. Aquart, now 39, was se...

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. attorney’s office in New Haven would not immediately confirm details of the shooting, including whether any...

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 the second fatal shooting in the past two weeks in Hartford by law enforcement officers. Trooper Josu...