Murder charge dropped after witness refuses to testify

HARTFORD  — Prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against a 31-year-old Hartford man after learning that a key witness was refusing to take the stand.
Benjamin White was charged with murder in the September 2014 shooting death of 38-year-old Anthony Wortham outside a city convenience store.
The Hartford Courant reports that the prosecutor told the judge on Tuesday that a jury had been picked and White’s trial was scheduled to begin, but a witness who was with White at the tim