Conn. Cop Charged With Homicide in Fatal Crash

Oct. 20, 2012
A Hartford police officer has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with an on-duty car accident that killed a man in July.

HARTFORD - A city police officer has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with an on-duty car accident that killed a man in July.

City police also charged Officer Taikwon Dudley on Thursday with reckless driving, traveling too fast for conditions and failure to obey a traffic signal. He was released on a promise to appear in court on Oct. 25.

Authorities said Dudley was on his way to help other officers arrest an armed suspect when his cruiser collided with a car driven by 50-year-old Anthony Mansfield of Hartford at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Woodland Street on July 13. Mansfield died seven days later.

Dalai Lama in state, calls for dialogue

DANBURY - The Dalai Lama called Thursday for a focus on dialogue rather than force to solve problems so that this century can be marked by peace rather than the bloodshed that dominated the last century.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader spoke at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury and was introduced by actor Richard Gere.

"Whenever I'm at an event with his holiness I'm struck by how much in common we all have and how much we really are brothers and sisters and deep from our hearts we start to feel that," Gere said.

The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent struggle in protest of Chinese rule of Tibet. He has been on a speaking tour in New England.

The Dalai Lama showed his lighter side, laughing at times and wtearing a WCSU cap during his talk.

Woman faces charge; took political sign

HEBRON - An 80-year-old woman has been charged with larceny and breach of peace after tearing down political signs that included an image of President Obama with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache.

Nancy Lack of Hebron told WVIT-TV she was offended by that picture and took down three posters that were being hung last Thursday near the post office on Main Street.

Workers for presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who were putting up the signs, called police.

Lack says she knew she would get in trouble, but lived through World War II and was angry that someone would portray the president as a Nazi.

She was released on a promise to appear in Superior Court on Oct. 23.

2 killed in separate state rail accidents

HARTFORD - Two men have been killed in separate train accidents in Connecticut.

Metro-North said Thursday that 21-year-old Alexander Bertrand of North Woodmere, N.Y., died after he was struck by an empty Metro-North Railroad train east of Greenwich at about 7 p.m. on Wednesday. No details were available.

Service was delayed 30 to 40 minutes on the New Haven line.

Anders said the man was treated at the scene by emergency workers and died at Stamford Hospital.

Separately, an unidentified pedestrian was struck and killed Wednesday by a freight train in Enfield.

Amtrak halted service on the New Haven-Springfield line.

Associated Press

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