The Making Of Adolf Hitler
How did a figure like Hitler emerge so quickly and so forcefully onto the world stage? How, in what was thought to be an enlightened and civilized society, did such demagoguery manage to incite an army...
View ArticleBlind Injustice: A Look At Wrongful Convictions In America
For an American Sign Language-interpreted version click here . Since 1989, more than 2,000 people have been identified as victims of wrongful convictions in the U.S. In 2015 and 2016, the wrongfully...
View ArticleYale Law Professor Wins Pulitzer For Book On Mass Incarceration
This year’s Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction went to former public defender, now Yale University law professor, James Forman, Jr. for his book Locking Up Our Own: Crime And Punishment In Black...
View ArticleIn Mobster's Murder Trial, Jurors Will Have To Decide Which Aging Gangster...
In Boston federal court, mobster Stephen The Rifleman Flemmi isnt the one currently on trial. But listening Wednesday to the defense teams opening arguments in the murder trial of his former partner...
View ArticleConnecticut Detective Focuses On Large-Scale Financial Crimes Against Elders
Seniors lose billions of dollars a year to financial fraud, ranging from mass mailings and threatening robocalls, to telemarketing and identity theft. Experts around the country, including Connecticut,...
View ArticleHartford Police Officer In Critical Condition After Stabbing Incident
A Hartford police officer is in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck Thursday.
View ArticleAn Up-Close Look Behind the Glass of… Dioramas
When I hear the word "diorama," the first thing I think of is Mr. Mack’s fifth grade class and painting hills and grass and clouds and a fence into a shoebox and making little cardboard cut outs of...
View ArticleThe Nose On Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, Clemency Counselor Kim...
Kim Kardashian rose to fame as a friend of Paris Hilton. She has a sex tape. She's been the subject of any number of reality TV shows. Kardashian is, for many people, the very definition of "famous for...
View ArticleA Rise In US Suicide Rates; Cleanup At Sleeping Giant; The Day's New Crime...
Amid the high-profile deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain came news of a new CDC report outlining a rise in U.S. suicide rates. This hour, we take an in-depth look at the numbers with Dr. Jill...
View ArticleJudge Orders Paul Manafort Detained Amid Witness Tampering Allegations
Updated at 12:31 p.m. ET A federal judge ordered Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, to jail on Friday following allegations by prosecutors that he tampered with witnesses in his...
View ArticleDeadly Bridgeport Police Pursuit Highlights Bigger Problem
An 18-year-old died when the stolen vehicle he was riding in crashed during a police chase Thursday in Bridgeport. The city’s police department said the car was being driven by a 15-year-old.
View ArticleThe Nose On The Oral History Of The Bobbitts, ESPN's Body Issue, And Naomi...
Believe it or not, Lorena and John Wayne Bobbitt (and their kitchen knife) entered the public consciousness 25 years ago last week . And this week, former UConn athlete Sue Bird and her girlfriend,...
View ArticleConnecticut Women's Prison Announces New Prison Re-Entry Unit
A new unit at Connecticut's York Correctional Institution was formally unveiled Monday. The specialized unit focuses on preparing young women offenders for life after prison.
View ArticleProfiling Criminal Profilers
Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series. "Criminal Minds" on CBS. In the past year, there've been "Mindhunter" on Netflix and "Manhunt: Unabomber" on Discovery. It seems we're fascinated by forensic...
View ArticleAs Internet Crime Rises, New Haven Officer Turns To Poetry
Police departments across the country, including New Haven, report that they’re seeing a rise in internet-related crimes. One officer even took a literary approach to the problem.
View ArticleBlumenthal Sponsors Resolution Calling For Release Of 9/11 Investigation...
Senator Richard Blumenthal has introduced a resolution in the Senate calling on the government to declassify and release documents related to 9/11. Families of the victims of the massacre believe the...
View ArticleBlumenthal: Manafort Plea "Really Bad News" For Trump
Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal said that a guilty plea entered by New Britain native Paul Manafort is bad news for President Donald Trump in the ongoing investigation of Russian meddling in the...
View ArticleConn. Voters Support Changes In Criminal Justice
Connecticut voters support reducing the prison population and investing in rehabilitation instead of incarceration. That’s according to a new poll released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union...
View ArticleState Senator Attacks Malloy Over Prisoner Release
A Meriden Republican has continued his public attacks against crime under Gov. Dannel Malloy's administration a week after Malloy said the state’s crime rate was at a 51-year low.
View ArticleChicago Police Officer Found Guilty Of 2nd-Degree Murder Of Laquan McDonald
Updated 6:33 p.m. ET White Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald. It took the jury of eight women...
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