Author: Susan Haigh
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Woman convicted of murder conspiracy, coverup, in 2019 disappearance of Connecticut mother
A Connecticut jury has convicted a woman of conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the presumed death of mother-of-five Jennifer Dulos in 2019
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No more ‘nuance’: Democrats slam GOP abortion-rights backers
DENVER • The anxious-looking women talk directly to the camera, warning that the Colorado Republican running for the U.S. Senate opposes the state’s reproductive rights law and supports the conservative Supreme Court justices who revoked the constitutional right to abortion this summer. “It’s not even close,” one says as the ad for the Democratic senator wraps…
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Police: Man dies from shark attack off Cape Cod
WELLFLEET, Mass. • A man boogie boarding off a Cape Cod beach was attacked by a shark Saturday and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years. The 26-year-old man from Revere succumbed to his injuries following the attack in the waters off Newcomb Hollow Beach…
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Blizzard rolls up the East Coast, with cold blast to follow
HARTFORD, Conn. — A massive winter storm roared into the East Coast on Thursday, threatening to dump as much as 18 inches of snow from the Carolinas to Maine and unleashing hurricane-force winds and flooding that closed schools and offices and halted transportation systems. Forecasters expected the storm to be followed immediately by a blast…
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Chimp attack victim seeks primate sale rules
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut woman blinded and disfigured by a chimpanzee attack will visit Washington this week to urge the passage of rules to make it harder to keep primates as pets. Charla Nash, who lost her nose, lips, eyelids and hands after she was mauled by her employer’s 200-pound pet chimpanzee in…