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Off-Duty CT Police Officer, Passenger Mom Of 3 Killed In Head-On Motorcycle Crash
An off-duty Bridgeport police officer and his passenger were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a Jeep, leaving the other driver hospitalized with serious injuries.
Cooper Whiteside, 38, of Danbury, and Brittany Islami, 34, of New Milford, died in the 2:45 a.m. Monday, July 13, crash on Sugar Hollow Road in Danbury, according to police.
Danbury officers arrived to find Whiteside, who was riding the Harley-Davidson, and Islami dead in the roadway. The Jeep Compass sustained severe front-end damage. Firefighters extricated the SUV driver, who was rushed to Danbury Hospital wit…
LI Powerlifter’s Social Media Flexes Exposed $100K Disability Fraud: Authorities
A Long Island powerlifter bilked more than $100,000 through disability payments while competing in professional competitions, authorities said.
Raymond Phillips, 40, of Huntington Station, pulled off the fraud between 2021 and 2024, the New York Attorney General’s office said.
Phillips said he suffered a serious injury while weightlifting in 2018, rendering him unable to work or perform routine activities without help, investigators said. He applied for state disability payments and was approved in May 2021, according to authorities.
But by 2021, Phillips was perfectly capable of working a…
Help Pours In After Fatal Crash Kills CT Dad, Critically Injures Local Musician
In the weeks following a devastating Hudson Valley, NY motorcycle crash that both killed a beloved father and critically injured a popular local musician from Connecticut, community members have raised over $100,000 to make sure their families receive the help they need.
The crash, which happened at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, June 29, on Route 22 near 5761 Route 22 in the Dutchess County town of North East, killed Morris, CT resident Tim Nurnberg and severely injured CT-based blues musician Eran Troy Danner.
As previously reported by Daily Voice, a vehicle colli…
