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Trinity College Grad Who Hired Hitmen To Kill Wife Over Affair Dies In Prison Trinity College Grad Who Hired Hitmen To Kill Wife Over Affair Dies In Prison
Trinity College Grad Who Hired Hitmen To Kill Wife Over Affair Dies In Prison Fred Neulander, the Cherry Hill rabbi who was convicted in a murder-for-hire plot to kill his wife, has died in New Jersey State Prison, the DOC website says. Neulander, 82, was observed unresponsive by correctional officers inside a prison infirmary unit on Wednesday, April 17, according to NBCPhiladelphia.com and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Prison officials have not released a cause of death, however, he was listed as "deceased" on the state's Department of Corrections website. Neulander — the founding rabbi of Congregation M’kor Shalom of Cherry Hill, a Reform Jewish synagogue — had been…
Trinity College Shows Support For Palestinian Student Shot In Apparent Hate Crime Trinity College Shows Support For Palestinian Student Shot In Apparent Hate Crime
Trinity College Shows Support For Palestinian Student Shot In Apparent Hate Crime A college community in Connecticut, alongside many nationwide, has been left reeling after a student of Palestinian descent was one of three shot in what appears to be a hate crime. Tahseen Ali Ahmad, age 20, who attends Trinity College in Hartford, was one of three men of the same age shot outside of a house in Burlington, Vermont on Sunday, Nov. 26, the school announced. Ali Ahmad and the two other men — Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani, also of Palestinian descent — were lifelong friends visiting a relative’s house near the University of Vermont's campus for the Thanksgiving holid…
Trinity College Student Killed, Two Others Injured In Hit-Run Crash Trinity College Student Killed, Two Others Injured In Hit-Run Crash
Trinity College Student Killed, Two Others Injured In Hit-Run Crash A college student was killed and two others injured during a hit-and-run crash in Connecticut. The crash took place in Hartford around 11:35 p.m., Thursday, March 31 near the intersection of New Britain Avenue at Henry Street.  All three victims were students at Trinity College located in Hartford, police confirmed.  When police arrived on the scene, they located three female victims, with one unresponsive, said Lt. Aaron Boisvert, of the Hartford Police. All three victims were transported to an area hospital for treatment. The unresponsive victim, identified as Jillian Hegarty, age 20, …
10 Connecticut Colleges Deal With COVID-19 Outbreaks; 1,000 NE Students And Staff Catch Virus 10 Connecticut Colleges Deal With COVID-19 Outbreaks; 1,000 NE Students And Staff Catch Virus
10 Connecticut Colleges Deal With Covid-19 Outbreaks; 1,000 NE Students And Staff Catch Virus COVID-19 outbreaks on New England college campuses have infected more than 1,000 students and *staff since the pandemic began. Connecticut has had 434 cases at 10 schools while neighboring Massachusetts has had 439 cases at 42 schools. As for the rest of New England: Vermont has had 34 cases at 8 schools, New Hampshire has had 68 cases at 6 schools, Maine has had 44 cases at 10 schools, and Rhode Island has had 62 cases at 8 schools, according to a New York Times database. That makes a total of 1,047 college and university students and staff who have contracted COVID-19. The NYT has kept…
What Is That? Amazon 'Lockers' Quietly Pop Up Across Connecticut What Is That? Amazon 'Lockers' Quietly Pop Up Across Connecticut
What Is That? Amazon 'Lockers' Quietly Pop Up Across Connecticut Large, brightly-colored “lockers” that open with digital-access codes are popping up around apartment buildings, as well as grocery and convenience stores in Connecticut and Massachusetts. They’re Amazon Hub Lockers. The lockers are a newer form of Amazon delivery service where customers can pick up orders from a locker instead of their homes. It’s a service aimed at people concerned packages sitting outside their residences could be stolen. Customers can also make returns at the lockers, too. The service was launched in 2018 and Amazon has been quietly adding lockers to communities. The …
COVID-19: College-Town Businesses More Likely To Stay Closed COVID-19: College-Town Businesses More Likely To Stay Closed
Covid-19: College-Town Businesses More Likely To Stay Closed College town businesses that closed due to COVID-19 conditions are 24 percent more likely to stay permanently closed once the virus is gone compared to communities without institutions of higher education, according to a recent Yelp analysis. Northern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts are home to many communities with economies that depend on business serving higher education institutions and people - especially: - Worcester, MA: (Clark University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Assumption College, UMass Worcester, Becker College, etc.), - Hartford, CT: (Hartford University, Trinity…
Hartford University, Others, Could Go Extinct Due To COVID-19, Says Higher Education Critic Hartford University, Others, Could Go Extinct Due To COVID-19, Says Higher Education Critic
Hartford University, Others, Could Go Extinct Due To Covid-19, Says Higher Education Critic The University of Hartford is on a list of universities that are facing extinction, according to Scott Galloway, an influential higher education critic. Galloway, a New York University marketing professor, poured over data for hundreds of U.S. colleges and universities to see which ones will emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and which ones won’t. Right now, higher education institutions across the country are making plans on how to re-open their campuses in the fall, if at all.  Hartford made Galloway's schools that may “perish” list because it has a “sodium pentothal cocktail of high …