I trolled an internet scammer for two weeks. Here’s what I learned.
The offer sounded too good to be true. Because, of course, it was. “My name is Mitler Jeffrey and I work as a freelance marketing agent for RedRain Energy Drink....
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Mystery Surrounds Newspaper’s Relationship To Las Vegas Casino Mogul Sheldon Adelson’s Legal Fight
With a reporting staff that numbers in the single digits, the New Britain Herald still fills its pages seven days a week with city politics, police news, local sports and...
Connecticut Supreme Court Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional
HARTFORD — After a sweeping two-year review, the state Supreme Court outlawed capital punishment in Connecticut, saying Thursday that the state's death penalty no longer comports with evolved societal values...
Four Students Arrested In Wesleyan Drug Overdoses
MIDDLETOWN — Four Wesleyan University students have been arrested in connection with the drug overdoses of 11 people at the university last weekend, police said on Tuesday night. Police served...
Blumenthal: ‘I Have Misspoken About My Service’
Richard Blumenthal calls them "misplaced words." The attorney general and presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate has said on a few occasions that he served "in" Vietnam; he actually spent...
Long War Taxing Troops
Soldiers and Marines exposed to long and repeated combat deployments are suffering far higher rates of psychological problems, and those troubled troops are twice as likely to take out their...
Use Of Unfit Troops Blasted
U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman called Wednesday for a federal investigation of mental health screening for troops deploying to Iraq, after The Courant reported in a series that mentally ill...
Mentally unfit troops pressed into combat
Army Spec. Jeffrey Henthorn, 25, of Choctaw, Okla., was sent back to Iraq for a second tour even though his superiors knew he had twice threatened suicide. When he killed...
Special Report: Mentally Unfit, Forced To Fight
The U.S. military is sending troops with serious psychological problems into Iraq and is keeping soldiers in combat even after superiors have been alerted to suicide warnings and other signs...
Hold applause for new Clapper
Maybe it was the impending new year and all that auld lang syne-ing, but sometime in early December I started to get those pangs of nostalgia for the old ways....