Edmund H. Mahony
Hartford Courant
Hartford, CT, United States
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Jury reaches verdict of nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages against Alex Jones in Sandy Hook trial
The astonishing $965 million compensatory damages verdict, after three and one-half weeks of gripping accounts of harassment from Jones and his followers, could increase in coming days with the addition of punitive damages, which are awarded for particularly outrageous and willful conduct. → Read More
Connecticut judge sanctions Alex Jones as Sandy Hook trial starts
Lawyers for the victim families told Judge Barbara Bellis that they obtained a copy of the analytic materials last week after Jones had long denied having or using the materials. → Read More
Fairfield County man is charged with the brutal assault of a police officer during the U.S. Capitol riot
The charge or charges to be filed against McCaughey along with any role he is accused of playing in the rioting were not immediately available. He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in White Plains Wednesday afternoon and more information could be available then. → Read More
State Supreme Court upholds Lamont’s authority to close businesses through COVID emergency orders
The state Supreme Court on Monday upheld the legality of Gov. Ned Lamont’s coronavirus emergency business closure orders in a ruling against a Milford tavern order who argued the governor was exceeding his authority and crushing small business such as hers. → Read More
Prosecutor in infamous Greenwich murder case tells judge state will not retry Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel in 1975 Martha Moxley killing
A hearing has been scheduled Friday morning in Superior Court on the case against Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, renewing speculation that state prosecutors have reached a decision on whether to retry him for the murder 45 years ago of his teenaged neighbor in Greenwich, Martha Moxley. → Read More
Nora Dannehy, Connecticut prosecutor who was top aide to John Durham’s Trump-Russia investigation, resigns amid concern about pressure from Attorney General William Barr
Federal prosecutor Nora Dannehy, a top aide to U.S. Attorney John H. Durham in his Russia investigation, has quietly resigned from the probe - at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done, colleagues said. → Read More
Gov. Lamont considering massive regional effort backed by Gov. Cuomo and Michael Bloomberg to trace coronavirus infections and slow spread of COVID-19
Gov. Ned Lamont hesitated and then seemed to change course Wednesday when pressed about whether to accept a $10 million offer from New York to join a tri-state partnership on contact tracing – a potentially costly, labor intensive program to isolate COVID infections, but one considered by many experts as essential to easing social distancing and restarting the economy. → Read More
Daily coronavirus updates: Connecticut legislature adjourns for the year as COVID-19 deaths top 1,300; hospitalizations begin to drop in Yale network
With bans on large gatherings in place through May 20 to slow the spread of COVID-19, legislative leaders in Connecticut said Tuesday that the General Assembly would not reconvene before its May 6 constitutional adjournment. → Read More
An unprecedented plan to re-open Connecticut after coronavirus could include surveillance, confinement and extensive testing, but it raises questions about privacy rights
A plan by the Lamont administration to ease the state and its economy out of self-imposed COVID-19 hibernation is a month or more away, but what is under discussion already would require an unprecedented investment in an array of testing for the virus and measures to track and perhaps even confine those determined to have it. → Read More
Connecticut cut a $5 million deal with a local businessman to acquire hard-to-get equipment and help fight the coronavirus pandemic
As states vie for masks and gear amid fear and shortages, Connecticut cut a $5 million deal with a Middle Haddam businessman to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Supreme Court rules against woman accused of bludgeoning her husband, a professor of medicine at UConn
The state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the state can move forward with the murder trial of a Burlington woman accused of hammering to death her husband, an elderly medical professor, and then wrapping his body in garbage bags and storing it in the basement of their home.Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi had argued that the state police - while searching the home after finding her husband’s body - discovered… → Read More
Daily coronavirus updates: Connecticut prison system moving all coronavirus-infected inmates to one facility after nearly 100 inmates and staff test positive
Pharmacy giant CVS Health Corp. is in discussions with officials in Connecticut about opening a large-scale testing site that could accommodate as many as 1,000 people a day and with a new test that can deliver results in less than 15 minutes. → Read More
Daily coronavirus updates: New Haven-based hospital system finds some good news in its COVID-19 admission rates as Connecticut flattens its curve
Gov. Ned Lamont said the state hopes to expand use of a faster test for COVID-19 and he wants to see antibody testing to certify employees can go back to work “over the next month or two.” → Read More
In a sweeping victory for seniors, a U.S. Court gives Medicare patients a new right to challenge denials of coverage
A federal judge in Hartford has delivered a sweeping health care victory to senior citizens by giving hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries a right to challenge denial of benefit decisions that for years have left elderly patients struggling under crushing medical bills.U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea’s ruling followed nine years of litigation in a class action brought by Medicare… → Read More
Police search Fotis Dulos home and a judge orders his re-arrest as he clings to life in a New York hospital after a suicide attempt
Local police resumed their investigation at Fotis Dulos’ Farmington home Wednesday morning while Dulos remains in critical condition in a New York hospital. → Read More
Six said to be leading candidates for top prosecutor’s job in Connecticut
Five lawyers have emerged as leading candidates to replace recently-retired, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane as chief State’s attorney and administrator of the far-flung prosecutorial offices of the state Division of Criminal justice. → Read More
The Redmen or nothing. Debate continues about Killingly High School mascot
There has been disagreement for years among people in Killingly about a whether the school’s former mascot, a depiction of a Plains Indian and the words The Redmen, amounts to a racial slur. It was hard to find any disagreement Saturday among the fans who drove half-way across Connecticut to back the football team against cross-state rival Weston in the state championship game for medium-sized… → Read More
Courant files federal First Amendment lawsuit over Connecticut juvenile law that makes court cases secret
The Hartford Courant filed a federal First Amendment lawsuit Wednesday to overturn a new state law that the newspaper says violates the speech and open government rights of the press and public by closing courtrooms and keeping records secret when some teenagers are charged with the most serious felonies. → Read More
Man accused of breaking into home and taking car
The Cromwell police said a resident returning home shortly after midnight called 911 after being surprised by a strange man in the residence. The intruder tried to fight with an officer who arrived to investigate, the police said.The police said they were able to subdue the suspect and take him into custody.The accused was identified as Zachery Ellish, 22, of Bristol. → Read More
Supreme Court will not delay Bridgeport vote after hearing argument of primary vote fraud
The state Supreme Court issued a decision that allows Bridgeport’s city-wide general election to go forward Tuesday after hearing heard 11th hour arguments Monday over the impact of absentee ballot fraud on the Bridgeport’s Democratic primary in September. → Read More