• Temporarily closes airport Wednesday morning. • 39-year-old passenger to Charleston had packed “hollowed-out” grenade in luggage. • After “clearing out a farmhouse.” • Had planned to present it as a gift. Laura Glesby reports.
Legislators scrap last-minute proposal to provide state health benefits to a select few, including New Haven Dems town chair Vinnie Mauro. CTmirror’s Mark Pazniokas reports.
• Annual Great Give tops goal for 500+ nonprofits. • “Foundationettes” harmonize on air to seek donations in the final hours of the “Great Give” fundraising marathon enters final stretch. Paul Bass reports.
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Thomas Breen
| May 8, 2024 12:35 pm
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Donning keffiyehs and blouses and dress shirts and the occasional suit and tie, nearly 50 Yale students took their turns appearing before a state judge to face criminal trespassing charges stemming from their arrests at recent pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
The judge continued each case until dates in July or August, taking care to accommodate students’ summer break schedules when determining whether each should return in person or online.
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Maya McFadden
| May 8, 2024 8:06 am
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Hill Regional Career High School junior Josh Burgess wrote the words “causes and effects of Salvadoran Civil War 1980s” inside a circle, and then drew lines connecting the words “historic inequality,” “murder,” and “oligarchs” to that circle.
He did so as part of an African American and Latino studies course that encourages students to understand how different parts of world history relate to one another — and that builds off of recent state legislation designed to boost the diversity of topics covered in Connecticut social studies classrooms.
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Maya McFadden
| May 8, 2024 8:01 am
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Because classes were closed for last month’s presidential primaries, the last day of school for New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) this year will be Monday, June 17 rather than Friday, June 14.