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Kellie Park, 20, accused of abusing 10-month-old daughter, then sending abuse videos to her child’s father
20-year-old Connecticut resident and mother of 10-month-old baby, Kellie Park, was arrested after she allegedly sent videos of herself abusing and tormenting her daughter to the child’s biological father. When the police questioned the child’s father, Erick Vece, he stated Kellie Park had sent threatening text messages and videos to his cell phone on the […]
Chimp Attack Victim Gets Face Transplant
A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded by a berserk chimpanzee has received a new face in the third such operation ever performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to chewing her meals again after months of pureed food.
Facebook and Labor Laws: Can Internet Posts Get You Fired?
Dawnmarie Souza’s comments on her Facebook page didn’t win her any points with the boss, but the rest of us owe her a debt of gratitude. In a rare test of old law on a new medium, she helped us understand just how little the online world differs from the land of bricks and mortar.
Arrest of Letterman extortion suspect shocks family
As Richard Smith chatted over the phone with his nephew late Tuesday, he noticed something was off. “He was slightly down,” Smith said about Robert “Joe” Halderman.
King: H1N1 worries increase awareness on college campuses
At the University of Connecticut, planning for the H1N1 virus means, to begin with, clearing some serious storage space: STORRS, Connecticut (CNN) — At the University of Connecticut, planning for the H1N1 virus means, to begin with, clearing some serious storage space: • 15,000 surgical masks for patients who might become infected. • 28,000 doses of Advil • 28,000 doses of Tylenol • 10,000 fever thermometers • Thousands of bottles of hand sanitizers.
Tests on bloody clothes in student case may be completed Monday
A day after finding a body inside a building where missing Yale student Annie Le was last seen, investigators might get a key piece of evidence Monday: results of tests on blood-stained clothing found in the same building. Teams at a Connecticut State Police lab worked through the weekend processing and examining the clothes, which were found hidden above tiles in a drop ceiling
Copters attack car in Somalia, witnesses say
Helicopters attacked a car and its occupants Monday in the southeastern town of Barawe, Somalia, several witnesses said.
Police: Yale student, a bride-to-be, disappears
Police are searching for a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be who disappeared and was last seen outside a school of medicine building. Co-worker Debbie Apuzzo told CNN affiliate WTNH-TV that Annie Le, 24, is scheduled to be married Sunday, and “her fiance hasn’t heard from her.” “Annie Le’s purse containing her cell phone, credit cards and money were left in her office,” a Yale University Police Department news release said, adding that friends, family members and co-workers had not heard from her since Tuesday
Can Joe Sestak Buck the Odds — and His Party’s Leaders — Against Arlen Specter?
On paper, perhaps, Congressman Joe Sestak seems to be on a quixotic mission — to unseat Arlen Specter, a 30-year incumbent Senator who is arguably the most successful politician in Pennsylvania history.