Connecticut news

• Murder-For-Hire Convict Appeal Denied

  20-03-2017 17:23
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A court has rejected the appeal of a Connecticut woman convicted in a murder-for-hire case that landed her in prison for life and was depicted in books and TV shows.
  Three judges on the state Appellate Court ruled Monday against Beth Carpenter.
  She argued her trial lawyer made several mistakes.
  Carpenter was convicted of murder and conspiracy in 2002 for plotting with her lover and boss, Haiman Clein, to kill her brother-in-law, Anson “Buzz”Clinton, over
  
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• Norwalk police looking for woman accused of stealing patient info while working as receptionist

  20-03-2017 17:12
  
  NORWALK — Norwalk Police are on the lookout for a doctor’s office receptionist wanted on identity theft, credit card fraud and forgery charges. Police said there are four arrest warrants for Rashel Williams, 35, or larceny, identity theft, credit card fraud and forgery. They said Williams recently worked at a local doctor’s office as a receptionist and, during that time, she stole the credit card numbers and check information of patients. Anyone with any information is urged to
  
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• For Danbury couple, love letters once lost, now found

  20-03-2017 02:51
  
  DANBURY – What was once lost, has now been found for a couple from western Connecticut. Love letters going back nearly 60 years recently resurfaced and Sunday, a Danbury couple, Deborah and Bryan Hocking, were reunited with a piece of their personal history. The love story started when Deborah was in high school. “We went out for a few blind dates and then we just kept dating,” said Deborah. The pair met through Bryan’s sister, but shortly after the relationship star
  
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