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The rise and fall of Rev. Daniel McSheffery, the ‘sickest, sociopathic monster ever to wear a Roman Catholic collar in Connecticut’
February 01, 2019A grainy photograph from 1964 shows a collar-wearing Rev. Daniel McSheffery receiving his badge from Hartford’s city manager and fire chief – the young priest toweri...
Family of woman killed in 2016 Danbury police pursuit sues city
December 05, 2018DANBURY — The family of a woman killed during a police chase in Danbury two years ago is suing the city and the former police officer who led the pursuit. The esta...
Case reveals shame, trauma of male sex trafficking victims
November 15, 2018TOLLAND, Conn. (AP) — Like many victims of a Connecticut sex trafficking ring that preyed on troubled young men and teenage boys for more than 20 years, Samuel Marino neve...
Supreme Court Hears Case Involving Fatal Train Accident
November 05, 2018Kevin Murphy was hustling to catch his early morning commuter train at the Noroton Heights station in March 2013 when he slipped on a patch of ice and fell onto the tracks and i...
Sara Hall and Allie Kieffer Rule the New Haven Road Race 20K
September 04, 2018Each year on Labor Day, thousands of runners put in the work at the New Haven Road Race, which includes a half marathon, 20K, and 5K. The most prestigious of them, the 20K&mdash...
A year after finishing second in a photo finish, Leonard Korir wins Faxon Law New Haven Road Race
September 03, 2018NEW HAVEN—No photo finish this year. Leonard Korir made sure of that about 10 miles into the Faxon Law New Haven Road Race on Monday. Korir, a Kenyan native who be...
A great Labor Day weekend in New Haven for Faxon Law winner Sara Hall
September 03, 2018The women’s race had been a three-runner affair most of the way before the 35-year-old Hall, living in Flagstaff, Ariz., pulled away from Allie Kieffer down the stretch to...
Lawsuit claims sex ring suspect has HIV
May 15, 2018DANBURY — The victims of a decades long sex trafficking ring claim one of the suspects was having sex with young men for more than 40 years while infected with HIV. ...
Attorney: HIV test request violated client’s privacy
February 16, 2018DANBURY — An attorney representing Bruce Bemer — a Glastonbury businessman facing human trafficking charges — argued Friday that the state broke the law when i...
Westport Man Pleads Guilty In Sex Ring Case
February 09, 2018Westport man pleaded guilty Friday to patronizing a trafficked person in a case related to an alleged sex ring involving troubled young men. William Trefzger, 72, was gi...
Westport man set free after guilty plea in sex trafficking guilty case
February 09, 2018DANBURY—Moments after becoming the first person convicted under a 2013 state law against human trafficking, Westport resident William Trefzger walked out of court Friday a...
Defendant in Danbury sex trafficking case rejects probation deal
January 31, 2018DANBURY—Court officials appeared shocked Wednesday when Bruce Bemer, a Glastonbury businessman facing felony human trafficking charges, rejected a plea deal that would hav...
Bruce Bemer, Business Mogul Charged In Sex Ring, Rejects Deal That Could Have Spared Him Prison
January 31, 2018Bruce Bemer, the Glastonbury business mogul charged in a sex ring operation involving troubled young men, Wednesday rejected a judge’s offer of a plea deal that could have...
Attorney For Sex-Trafficking Ring Accusers Seeks HIV Test For Bruce Bemer
January 18, 2018An attorney for some of the accusers in an alleged sex trafficking ring is seeking a court order to force a Glastonbury business mogul to undergo an HIV test. In a one-p...
Blumenthal Demands Answers from VA Secretary and Inspector General After Veteran Alleges Appalling Malpractice at West Haven VA — Click to see letters
January 17, 2018WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, wrote separately today to U.S. Department of Veterans A...
For 4 years, he said he was in pain. Then they found the scalpel.
January 16, 2018A Connecticut Army veteran alleges that a surgeon left a surgical instrument in his abdomen during a 2013 operation at a Veterans Administration hosp...
Army vet, 61, sues after discovering a five-inch SCALPEL was left in his body FOUR YEARS ago during cancer surgery at VA hospital leaving him in agony
January 16, 2018Glenford Turner, 61, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, went for surgery to remove his prostate in 2013 at West Haven VA hospital, after he was diagnosed with cancer S...
Veteran Sues After Scalpel Found Inside His Body 4 Years After Surgery
January 16, 2018Glenford Turner had surgery in 2013 at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut. Four years later, according to a new lawsuit, doctors discovered that a sharp metal surgical i...
CT Law Firm Sponsors California Trip Charity Raffle
December 27, 2017Faxon Law Group, a Connecticut trial law firm and title sponsor of the Danbury, Fairfield, and New Haven Road Races, is currently running a Wonka-themed charity contest with a l...
Attorneys hope to question former CEO in Retreat lawsuit
December 22, 2017BRATTLEBORO — Attorneys for the family of a young woman who attempted suicide at the Brattleboro Retreat in 2014 want to know what the former president and CEO of the ment...
Dartmouth-Hitchcock places delayed cancer notification firmly on Brattleboro Memorial Hospital's shoulders
December 20, 2017BRATTLEBORO — A malpractice lawsuit filed against Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has spawned a legal fight between the hospital and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic, which runs i...
Thompson v. National Union Fire Insurance Company, 249 F. Supp. 3d 606 (D. Conn. 2017)
December 13, 2017Insurers that rely on exclusions in their policies, to eliminate coverage for their insureds’ projects that are covered under wrap-up policies, have much to take away from...
Bruce Bemer, Glastonbury Businessman Accused In Sex Ring, Puts Up $25 Million In Civil Case
December 12, 2017The Glastonbury business mogul charged in a sex ring operation involving troubled young men has agreed to put up $25 million in assets to cover his potential liabilities stemmin...
Speedbowl owner puts up $25M to cover potential civil damages
December 12, 2017Glastonbury—New London-Waterford Speedbowl owner Bruce Bemer, who is facing charges for alleged involvement in a decades-long sex trafficking ring, agreed this week to set...
Parents shocked when learn family friend charged with prostituting their son
August 06, 2017DANBURY - After Sam Marino took his own life more than seven years ago, his friend Robert King attended the memorial service and set up a Facebook page in his honor. Marino&rsqu...
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