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Ex-High School Coach Gets Prison Term For Hit-Run Crash That Gave Teen Traumatic Brain Injury Ex-High School Coach Gets Prison Term For Hit-Run Crash That Gave Teen Traumatic Brain Injury
Ex-High School Coach Gets Prison Term For Hit-Run Crash That Gave Teen Traumatic Brain Injury A former Connecticut zoning official has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading no contest to a drunken hit-and-run crash that left a teenager with severe brain damage, authorities said. John Egan, 59, the former chair of Waterbury’s zoning commission, received a 10-year sentence on Tuesday, Jan. 7, with all but two years suspended, authorities said. Egan struck Brian Calle, then 17, as he rode his scooter home from work just after midnight on May 26, 2023, at the intersection of Highland Avenue and West Main Street. Egan allegedly fled the scene, leaving Calle critically inju…

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by Josh Lanier
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Family Pleads for Justice After Norwich Man Left Critically Hurt from Hit, Run Crash Family Pleads for Justice After Norwich Man Left Critically Hurt from Hit, Run Crash
Norwich's Rene Beaudette Left In Coma After Hit, Run Crash The family of a 66-year-old Connecticut man who was left in a coma after a car crashed into him and sped off is asking for the public's help to find out who was behind the wheel.  Rene Beaudette, of Norwich in New London County, was hit around 5:25 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 655 East Main St. in Norwich, authorities said.  Original Report: Police Searching For Driver Who Left Hit, Run Victim In Coma Paramedics rushed Beaudette to William W. Backus Hospital and later to Hartford Hospital, where he was in critical condition.  A GoFundMe to help pay for his medica…

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by Josh Lanier
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Mass. Hammer Murderer Gets Life In Prison For Killing Sleeping Wife: DA Mass. Hammer Murderer Gets Life In Prison For Killing Sleeping Wife: DA
Mass. Hammer Murderer Gets Life In Prison For Killing Sleeping Wife: DA A Massachusetts man who beat his estranged wife to death with a hammer as she slept will spend at least the next 25 years in prison, authorities said.  Michael A. Cook Sr., of North Adams in Berkshire Country, was convicted of second-degree murder last week and was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, Oct. 10, the Berkshire County District Attorney's Office said. However, he will be eligible for parole in 25 years.  Charli Cook, a 41-year-old CNA at the former Willowood Health Care Center, was asleep when Michael Cook broke into her North Adams home in July 2019 and hit h…

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by Josh Lanier