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Coming to CBS All Access: 'Mercy House' Series Based On Fairfield Native's Novel Coming to CBS All Access: 'Mercy House' Series Based On Fairfield Native's Novel
Coming to CBS All Access: 'Mercy House' Series Based On Fairfield Native's Novel  Getting her first book, Mercy House  — about three nuns who run a home for abused women and one of whom has to face her own past) — published and released on Feb. 11  (see "What Commits Someone To Selflessness? Alena Dillon's Novel 'Mercy House' Puts Nuns Center Stage") and available at online bookstores, was the validation of a lifetime, according to Fairfield native Alena Dillon.  Now it is being made into a series for streaming service CBS All Access, produced by comedian Amy Schumer and her producing partner Kevin Kane.  Dillon’s literary agent brought in film agents who shopped the m…

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by Vira Mamchur Schwartz
Politics
Top Lawyer For CT Senate Republicans Fired Over Missing Money Top Lawyer For CT Senate Republicans Fired Over Missing Money
Top Lawyer For CT Senate Republicans Fired Over Missing Money The top lawyer for the state Senate Republicans was fired on Monday, Dec. 3 after campaign money was discovered missing from one of the GOP's political action committees. Senate Republican leader Len Fasano told Capitol reporters that he fired Chief Counsel Michael Cronin after the lawyer admitted misappropriating tens of thousands of dollars from a Senate GOP caucus PAC that Cronin oversaw as treasurer this year. Cronin reported the theft to Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, whose office opened a criminal investigation. Cronin, a legislative lawyer for nearly two decades, also served as …

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by Jon Craig