MANCHESTER, Conn. — A truck driver caught stealing beer from the distributor where he worked killed eight co-workers before turning a gun on himself yesterday morning after company officials told him to resign or face being fired, employees and authorities said....
And he tried to blame race, readers!
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Speaking of which:
"4 workers sue Conn. agency, claim discrimination" by Everton Bailey Jr., Associated Press Writer | August 2, 2010
HARTFORD, Conn --Four African-American employees of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families are suing the state agency, alleging it discriminates against minority workers.
According to the federal lawsuit obtained Monday by the Associated Press, the workers say African-American employees have been the target of racially motivated disciplinary actions and are promoted at a lesser rate. The lawsuit also said the workers' concerns have been ignored by supervisors and they have faced other forms of harassment.
The employees who filed the lawsuit work for the agency's Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a detention center for 12- to 17-year-old boys in Middletown....
I'm tired of being divided.
"Cops: Driver in fatal hit-and-run was scared
An arrest warrant says a Connecticut man charged in the hit-and-run death of a 4-year-old boy near an ice cream truck told police he had a "few beers" that day and was afraid to stop because of what witnesses might do to him.
Forty-four-year-old Walter Oliva was arraigned Monday in Danbury Superior Court on charges of reckless driving, misuse of a motor vehicle and evading responsibility.
Police say the boy, Eric Zhunio, had just gotten a treat from the ice cream truck last Thursday on Stevens Street in Danbury when he darted away from his father and was struck by Oliva's pickup truck. Witnesses said the truck was going 45 to 50 mph in a 25 mph zone.
Oliva, a divorced father of four who lives near the boy's family, remains held on $300,000 bail and is to return to court on Aug. 25.
--more--""Police bust up Hartford-area cocaine ring
HARTFORD, Conn. --Federal and local authorities in Connecticut say they've arrested 20 people in a Hartford-area drug ring and seized about 28 kilograms of cocaine and $650,000 in cash. Federal prosecutors and Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Thursday that the arrests were the result of a 10-month investigation that included wiretaps. Authorities accuse 32-year-old Steven Velez of New Britain of trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine in the Hartford area. They say he got the drugs from 36-year-old Angel Mulero of Hartford, who received them from an out-of-state source.
--more--"Also see: Saying Prayers in the Connecticut Chapel
"Report: Conn. No. 2 in unfunded pension liability
An education think tank says Connecticut has the second-highest unfunded pension liability per capita in the country, which could impair efforts by schools to recruit highly qualified teachers and administrators. A new report by Education Sector says the deficit in Connecticut's pension fund amounts to more than $4,500 per state resident, second highest behind Alaska's rate of $5,100. Connecticut's unfunded liability, the difference between what the state owes current and future retirees and what it has saved, totals nearly $15.9 billion. A February 2010 report by The Pew Center on the States found that Connecticut is one of eight states with more than a third of its pension liability underfunded. The state's total pension obligations are more than $41 billion."
Where has all the tax loot gone?
