Best Read Connecticut Headlines
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#1 Visiting Nurse’s Killing at Halfway House Renews Pleas for Home Health Care Safety
Dec 8 2023 // The killing of a Connecticut nurse making a house call in October was a nightmare come true for an industry gripped by the fear of violence. Already stressed out by staffing shortages and mounting caseloads, heath care...
#2 Connecticut High Court Denies Immunity for First Responder Causing Car Accident
Aug 2 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned a trial court and ruled that municipalities and government agencies are not entitled to qualified immunity for negligent operation of emergency vehicles. In a case involving a...
#3 Tainted Medication Fears Spur Defense Department to Seek Outside Testing
Aug 10 2023 // The US Department of Defense entered an agreement with Valisure, an independent lab that’s spotted dangerous chemicals in a variety of widely used pharma and consumer products, to test medications amid surging...
#4 Sandy Hook Families Offer to Settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 Billion Debt for $85 Million
Nov 29 2023 // Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the...
#5 Hospitals, Clinics in Several States Begin Recovery After Cyberattacks
Aug 7 2023 // Hospitals and clinics in several states on Friday began the time-consuming process of recovering from a cyberattack that disrupted their computer systems, forcing some emergency rooms to shut down and ambulances to be...
#6 Fed Appeals Court Upholds CT Law That Ended Religious Vaccine Exemption
Aug 7 2023 // A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities. The...
#7 Connecticut, Other States’ Lawmakers Have a Lot of Questions About AI
Aug 9 2023 // As state lawmakers rush to get a handle on fast-evolving artificial intelligence technology, they`re often focusing first on their own state governments before imposing restrictions on the private sector. Legislators are...
#8 Connecticut Governor Says Police Retirements Not Driven by Ticket Probes
Oct 11 2023 // The top two leaders of Connecticut State Police will be stepping down in the middle of multiple investigations into whether troopers submitted bogus data on thousands of traffic stops that may have never happened, Gov. Ned...
#9 Kennedy Cousin Whose Murder Conviction Was Overturned Sues Cop, Connecticut Town
Jan 4 2024 // Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious...
#10 NOAA: U.S. Withstands Record 25 Disasters in 2023
Nov 15 2023 // Another billion-dollar disaster was confirmed in October, bringing the total to a record 25 such disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA began tracking the events. These...
#11 Connecticut School District Has Recouped Half of $6 Million Lost in Cyber Attack
Aug 14 2023 // The city of New Haven lost more than $6 million in multiple cyberattacks on its public school district earlier this summer and has so far managed to recoup about half of the money, officials announced last week. The...
#12 Probe Into Death of Nurse on Home Visit Alleges Employer Failed to Protect Workers
May 3 2024 // A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety...
#13 Court Nixes ‘Wrongful Life’ Framing in Upholding $38M Fertility Malpractice Award
Feb 8 2024 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that claims involving the evolving field of assisted reproductive technologies can be decided using traditional negligence and medical malpractice principles and do not require...
#14 Connecticut Can’t Hide Police Report on Hospital Patient’s Death
Sep 1 2023 // Police reports about deaths and other incidents in public hospitals cannot be kept secret, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, citing the importance of government transparency and the public`s right to know what...
#15 Driver Charged in Fiery Crash That Shut Connecticut Highway Bridge
Apr 29 2024 // A man accused of causing a fiery crash that shut down a major Connecticut highway bridge and killed a fuel delivery truck driver has been charged with negligent homicide, police said Thursday. State police said Reginald...
#16 Probe of Connecticut State Police Traffic Stops Shows No Intentional Racial Profiling
Feb 6 2024 // Inaccurate racial profiling data on traffic stops made by the Connecticut State Police was largely the result of data-entry mistakes and other mishaps, not an intentional effort by troopers to submit bogus information,...
#17 Bacteria in Raw Shellfish Linked to 4 Deaths
Aug 18 2023 // The death of a Long Island resident has been linked to a bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater that has also been blamed for two deaths in Connecticut, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday. The Vibrio vulnificus...
#18 Connecticut Weighs Ban on Legacy Admissions at Private and Public Colleges
Mar 18 2024 // Connecticut lawmakers are considering banning the use of legacy and donor preferences in admissions to all colleges and universities across the state, including private ones like Yale University. A bill was advanced to the...
#19 Asbestos Wrongful Death Claim Allowed Against Employer as Workers’ Comp Exception
Oct 24 2023 // A Connecticut appeals court has revived a wrongful death claim that tests a narrow exception to the state law that makes workers’ compensation the exclusive remedy for most workplace deaths and injuries. Harold...
#20 Alex Jones Offers Sandy Hook Families $55 Million Over 10 Years
Dec 20 2023 // Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones` latest bankruptcy plan would pay Sandy Hook families a minimum total of $55 million over 10 years, a fraction of the $1.5 billion awarded to the relatives in lawsuits against Jones for...
