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Prosecutors and defense attorneys have begun picking the jury that will hear the state’s double murder case against Joseph Silva, who is accused of gunning down two people on Cowles Street two years ago.

Silva, 22, rejected a plea offer last year that would have required him to plead guilty to two counts of murder and accept a prison sentence of 58 years.

At trial, he faces two counts of murder, a charge of murder with special circumstances, altering a firearm identification number and illegal discharge of a firearm. If convicted, he faces life, plus 131 years, in prison.

NEW HAVEN >> Charges of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of risk of injury to a child were dismissed Thursday and defendant Alex Feliciano left the courtroom smiling after the emotional teenage complainant refused to continue her testimony.

The sudden and surprising collapse of the state’s case occurred within the first hour of the trial. Superior Court Judge Jon M. Alander thanked the eight jurors for being willing to serve and sent them home.

A New Jersey man who drove to Shelton last year and beat his wife’s lover with a baseball bat won’t serve any prison time for the assault.

The man, Chadwick Adams, 28, faced up to four years behind bars after pleading guilty to first-degree assault in the case Sept. 15.

But Judge Frank Iannotti opted not to imprison Adams after a 40-minute sentencing at Superior Court in Milford Friday during which he concluded Adams, who has no other criminal convictions, is unlikely to break the law again.

A former principal of a Wethersfield elementary school has been arrested again for voyeurism, this time by state police.

Troopers said John Bean recorded female children at a Walmart in Hartford in Sept. 2016.

Bean's phone was seized following his arrest by Hartford police.

NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) -- A recent report conducted shows a now retired Yale University professor allegedly sexually assaulted, and sexually harassed several students over the course of a number of years.

A father in Bolton now faces charges in addition to a mother after at least 20 teenagers were at a party in their house where alcohol and marijuana were present.