Allen Prue appears in court in St. Johnsbury, Vt. on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A judge denied separate requests Tuesday for new lawyers for a couple charged with luring a St. Johnsbury teacher from her home last year and sexually assaulting and killing her before dumping her body in the Connecticut River. In separate hearings in Vermont Superior Court, Patricia and Allen Prue both said they wanted new lawyers. Allen Prue told the judge that he felt his attorney, Dan Maguire, was trying to use his wife against him.
A passenger from a Metro-North train takes a photograph of the media, onboard a bus taking commuters to Bridgeport to re-board trains bound for New Haven, in Connecticut May 20, 2013. Connecticut rail commuters endured crowded and rerouted rides in to work on Monday, as Metro-North worked to repair the busiest U.S. rail line after a two-train collision and derailment injured more than 70 people late last week.
WATERBURY, CT - MAY 20: A volunteer organizes cans of food at a soup kitchen run by Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries on May 20, 2013 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Waterbury, once a thriving industrial city with one of the largest brass manufacturing bases in the world, has suffered economically in recent decades as manufacturing jobs have left the area. According to recent census data, 20.6%. of the city's residents were living below the poverty level. Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries provides 579 meals daily to Waterbury's neediest residents Sunday through Friday, representing a 19% increase over the same period last year.
WATERBURY, CT - MAY 20: Rose Opalak, who is currently unemployed, waits for a bus, on May 20, 2013 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Waterbury, once a thriving industrial city with one of the largest brass manufacturing bases in the world, has suffered economically in recent decades as manufacturing jobs have left the area. According to recent census data, 20.6%. of the city's residents are living below the poverty level.
WATERBURY, CT - MAY 20: A woman walks by a closed factory on May 20, 2013 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Waterbury, once a thriving industrial city with one of the largest brass manufacturing bases in the world, has suffered economically in recent decades as manufacturing jobs have left the area. According to recent census data, 20.6%. of the city's residents are living below the poverty level.
WATERBURY, CT - MAY 20: An undercover police officer yells at a unemployed young man on a street on May 20, 2013 in Waterbury, Connecticut. Waterbury, once a thriving industrial city with one of the largest brass manufacturing bases in the world, has suffered economically in recent decades as manufacturing jobs have left the area. According to recent census data, 20.6%. of the city's residents are living below the poverty level.
