• 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.
Bessie Duncan has plenty of wisdom to share upon reaching the age of 105.
One piece of advice: Drink one full cup of black coffee every morning, no cream, no sugar.
Another: Obey the law, because if you act up, you’ll suffer the consequences.
A third, at least in regards to this reporter: If this article about her centenary-plus-five birthday celebration is not accurate and true, she’s “gonna get” me.
Clarice Elarabi woke up at 3:12 a.m. feeling “just so hot. Like, on fire.”
She stuck her head out of the window. She took a cold shower. She tried and failed to go back to sleep. “I was so hot,” she said, “I didn’t know what was going on with me.”
Two hours later, Elarabi learned that her twin brother’s house in the Hill had erupted into flames.
The blaze took his life. It hurled her into life-altering grief. And Elarabi is now preparing to argue in court that the City of New Haven could have prevented it.
A Hamilton Street parking lot will remain a Hamilton Street parking lot for the time being, now that a local landlord has withdrawn a housing application in the face of several neighbors’ car concerns.