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Ex-firefighter who was fired over his medical marijuana use referenced Charlie Kirk’s assassination in threats against former bosses, officials say

Two incidents of threatened political violence target Connecticut officials in same week

The Independent UK

Brickbat: Shocking Mistake

A police officer in Windsor, Connecticut, faces charges of reckless endangerment and unlawful discharge of a firearm after he mistakenly… The post Brickbat: Shocking Mistake appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

Shocking photos show inside house where man says he was held captive for 20 years

The man's stepmother, Kimberly Sullivan, is charged with kidnapping, cruelty to persons and other crimes

The Independent UK

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Man locked in his own home for 20 years questions why accused stepmother remains free

‘This victim is afraid. This victim lives in fear’

The Independent UK

A man claims he was held captive for two decades – his family now want answers

Relatives are hoping to reconnect with a 32-year-old man who told police he was held captive

The Independent UK

12-Year-Old Girl Charged With Hate Crime After Allegedly Attacking Muslim Twin Classmates

A 12-year-old girl from Connecticut has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly participating in a group attack against twin seventh-grade Muslim students at a middle school in Waterbury.

Latin Times

Scooby Dooby Doo, Whose Are You?

In Roger v. Keller, decided earlier this month by Waterbury, Connecticut trial court judge Robert D'Andrea, plaintiffs had a pit bull named Scooby; they kept him with defendants (who were apparently, to oversimplify, plaintiffs' family members) for three years, despite defendants' insistence that plaintiffs take them back. Eventually, defendants gave…

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Brickbat: Didn't You See Me?

The Waterbury, Connecticut, police department has fired officer James Hinkle for screaming at and berating a woman who drove through an intersection where he was directing traffic. Hinkle accused the woman of almost running him over, but in the video he appeared to be a few feet from her and…

Reason

Alex Jones says he will not put on defense ; both sides rest cases in Sandy Hook defamation trial

WATERBURY, Conn. — Both sides rested their cases Wednesday in the Sandy Hook defamation case against far-right broadcaster Alex Jones, who began trying almost immediately in a post-trial motion to limit the tens of millions of dollars in damages he could be ordered to pay families of victims of the…

Tribune News Service

Alex Jones decides against taking the stand on second day of Sandy Hook grilling

“Infowars” host Alex Jones decided against taking the stand on the second day of testimony in Waterbury, Connecticut, Friday, where a six-person jury will decide on punitive and compensatory damages he owes families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Tribune News Service

Alex Jones appears briefly outside court, attacks judge and proceedings

WATERBURY, Conn. — A combative Alex Jones arrived at the courthouse in Waterbury where he is being sued for defamation and attacked the presiding judge, who he said is trying to force him to lie about what he believes and has said about the Sandy Hook school massacre.

Tribune News Service

Connecticut judge sanctions Alex Jones as Sandy Hook trial starts

HARTFORD, Conn. — The judge presiding over Alex Jones’ defamation trial in Waterbury imposed another punishing sanction even before evidence began Tuesday, prohibiting him from using analytics of his website sales to argue to jurors that he didn’t profit from his denial of the Sandy Hook school massacre.

Tribune News Service

Alex Jones to allow company behind Infowars to be part of Conn. defamation trial in September

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has agreed to allow the company behind his far-right Infowars website to participate in his Connecticut defamation case, meaning both will be on trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, in September to decide what they should pay in damages for their false claims that the Sandy Hook school…

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Texas lawyer testifies disclosure of confidential Sandy Hook medical, psychiatric records was inadvertent

The question of how secret medical records were improperly disclosed to lawyers of relatives of Sandy Hook victims involved in a Texas defamation suit was answered at a disciplinary hearing in Superior Court in Waterbury on Thursday: by accident.

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Inquiry begins in court over whether confidential medical records of Sandy Hook parents ended up in the wrong hands

WATERBURY, Conn. — Text messages and email correspondence about the transfer of confidential medical records were produced in court this week at an inquiry by the judge presiding over the Alex Jones defamation trial into how, or even if the highly personal records were improperly disclosed by Jones’ lawyers.

The Independent UK

Police: Olympian's mother unintended victim of drug dispute

Police say the mother of a Puerto Rican Olympian killed by a stray bullet in her Connecticut home was an unintended victim of a drug dispute that erupted into the firing of more than 20 gunshots

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