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Woman Gets Four Years for Killing Disabled Son By Putting Vodka in His Feeding Tube

Matthew McDonald

The 41-year-old mother in Hardwick, Vermont wanted to keep her 13-year-old disabled son quiet, so she put vodka in his feeding tube. The boy died of alcohol poisoning, and the woman was convicted of manslaughter; some of the boy's other family members think the sentence is too lenient.

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Paul Manafort Son of Former New Britain Mayor and Scion of Construction Family

Matthew McDonald

The indicted former Trump campaign manager grew up in New Britain, Connecticut, where his father served as mayor. Manafort's grandfather, an immigrant from Italy, founded a construction company in New Britain in 1919; while the Republican lobbyist's ties in New Britain are deep, he hasn't spent much time there since he went off to Georgetown in the late 1960s.

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