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The handoff of federal agencies' social media accounts to the Trump administration is sparking controversy and complicating the transition.
Trump's is the first administration to take power in the Twitter age. That’s led to confusion about the rules for handing off government accounts and oversight.
Twitter laid out plans for seamlessly transferring the @POTUS account from former President Obama to President Trump — and other social media platforms, including Instagram...

Nestled between a pasture of grazing horses and a stretch of woods in the town of Bethany sit two barns, each with a sign posted above the front door: “Set yourself free.”
Norm Pattis, a New Haven-based defense attorney, put those signs up in 2005 when he bought — and thus saved — Whitlock’s Book Barn.
“A book, for me, has always been the key to salvation,” Pattis says as he stands beneath that sign in the main barn. “A bookstore is a...

Testimony is scheduled to begin next month in the murder trial of Tony Moreno, accused of throwing his 7-month-old son from the Arrigoni Bridge in July 2015.
Moreno's attorney, Norman A. Pattis, said Wednesday at a pre-trial hearing in Superior Court that he expects Moreno to testify during the trial and that Moreno will not deny he was responsible for Aaden Moreno's death.
"There will be no argument by the defense in this case that Mr. Moreno was not responsible for causing his...

Norm Pattis talks about the recent decision in the case of Michael Skakel, who is going back to prison in the Martha Moxley murder.

Nestled between a pasture of grazing horses and a stretch of woods in the town of Bethany sit two barns, each with a sign posted above the front door: “Set yourself free.”
Norm Pattis, a New Haven-based defense attorney, put those signs up in 2005 when he bought — and thus saved — Whitlock’s Book Barn.
“A book, for me, has always been the key to salvation,” Pattis says as he stands beneath that sign in the main barn. “A bookstore is a...

The Stratford Board of Education is ready to challenge tuition bills of more than $570,000 being sent by a pair of Bridgeport magnet schools.
School board members voted unanimously at Monday’s regular meeting to hire Norman Pattis of New Haven as the district prepares to contest tuition charges for Stratford students attending Discovery Interdistrict Magnet School and the Interdistrict Science Magnet Schools on the Fairchild Wheeler School campus.
State law passed last June...

The word "mope" is causing a lot of controversy, even landing New Haven Assistant Police Chief Luiz Cassanova with a one-day suspension.
Cassanova's attorney, Norm Pattis, said the word "mope" -- which has traditionally been defined as someone who is dejected or in low spirits, but has taken on the secondary meaning of a criminal up to no good or a person presenting themselves as uneducated -- was thought to have been used in reference to how a black officer was wearing his hat.
A...

Tracked down after a painstaking process in which police questioned dozens of owners of white BMW sports utility vehicles, Patricia Daniels surprised detectives with an unusual alibi for the time a mother was killed and her young son injured in a hit and run crash.
“She said she was having some psychological issues that morning and drove herself to St. Vincent’s Medical Center and checked herself into the psych unit,” newly retired Bridgeport police detective Paul Ortiz...

A man who spent 48 years on the lam after escaping from a prison in Georgia faced a judge in Danbury Tuesday morning.
Robert Stackowitz, 71, appeared in Danbury Superior Court for an extradition hearing.
He was initially sentenced to 17 years in prison for a robbery; however, He fled a prison work camp in Carrolton, GA in 1968.
He hid in the town of Sherman where he lived a quiet life of making repairs at auto shops and teaching shop at a local high school, Stackowitz...

A Connecticut man who escaped from a Georgia prison 48 years ago could live the rest of his life in prison, according to WFSB News. Robert Stackowitz, 71, appeared in court for an extradition hearing Tuesday in Danbury.
In May, U.S. Marshals arrested Stackowitz, who they say has spent the past 48 years on the lam, living under an assumed name, Bob Gordon. Marshals arrested Stackowitz in Sherman at 9:30 a.m. Monday, May 9, 2016, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections....