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Mallory Sanchez and Bethany Cinque help Selks fill out name-change paperwork.
Selks was tired of trying to convince doctors and employers to stop calling them by a name they want to leave behind.
So they came to the New Haven Pride Center to make their chosen name official.
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by | Mar 31, 2025 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
A 43-year-old New Havener named Michael Borelli died Saturday following a crash between his motorcycle and a car in the Wooster Square neighborhood.
by | Mar 28, 2025 2:31 pm | Comments (6)
Police arrested a 29-year-old man for an alleged hate crime.
by | Mar 28, 2025 9:31 am | Comments (17)
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Alder Troy Streater at his day job, making his signature hazelnut coffee at the 180 Center's warming center.
After spending 23 years in prison, Newhallville Alder Troy Streater traveled to Hartford to make a case that his pardon is enough of a testament to his innocence to warrant a nearly $12 million award from the state.
by | Mar 26, 2025 3:14 pm | Comments (5)
Stacey Zane Glasgow (left), as pictured on a GoFundMe fundraiser.
City police found a gun with an extended magazine in the backyard of the house where an 8‑year-old child was shot and killed.
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by | Mar 26, 2025 2:15 pm | Comments (6)
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Heriberto Cotto's sister, Yarisbeth: "God sees everything."
Cotto, a car club enthusiast who was shot and killed during a Christmas Eve fight.
City police have secured a warrant for the arrest of a 32-year-old New Havener who allegedly killed a man in the Dwight neighborhood — before fleeing to Pennsylvania to attempt to kill someone else.
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by | Mar 25, 2025 3:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Denise Leary.
City police have identified the human remains found on Rock Creek Road last week as belonging to Denise Leary.
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by | Mar 21, 2025 8:03 pm | Comments (10)
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Lt. Brian McDermott, cleared by IA.
A city police investigation found that Morris Cove’s former top cop did not provide special treatment for the neighborhood’s alder.
According to Police Chief Karl Jacobson, the alder in question eventually received a misdemeanor ticket for leaving the scene of a car crash.
by | Mar 20, 2025 4:26 pm | Comments (34)
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Mayor Elicker (right): Trump’s administration is “illegally stymieing and setting up roadblocks to cut off funds that we’ve been legally awarded,”
New Haven has joined a second nationwide lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time over the city’s loss of access to tens of millions of dollars in already-allocated grants addressing climate change and clean energy.
by | Mar 20, 2025 9:30 am | Comments (4)
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The victims of the July 2024 fatal crash: Dajsha Knight (top left) with her mom, and Madysin Hilker (bottom center) at her high school graduation.
One driver’s decision to drive past the double yellow line on Middletown Avenue caused a three-vehicle crash that killed two people and severely injured six others.
Police have now arrested the man allegedly behind the wheel, along with another driver who purportedly fled the scene.
by | Mar 19, 2025 9:39 am | Comments (6)
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... and working on the agency's garden.
New Haven’s street outreach workers had a new challenge: dealing with kids as young as 11 caught up in community trouble.
They also took on the new challenge of focusing on teenaged girls whose group spats could lead to bigger trouble.
Those two challenges reflect the growing mission of the CT Violence Intervention & Prevention (VIP) project as it passes its fifth anniversary hitting the streets to defuse beefs and mentor young people in New Haven and Hamden.
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by | Mar 17, 2025 1:20 pm | Comments (35)
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The Dewitt St. block where the fatal shooting took place.
(Updated) An 8‑year-old boy died from an apparently accidental gunshot wound Sunday night while at home on Dewitt Street in the Hill.
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by | Mar 14, 2025 3:46 pm | Comments (7)
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Raviteja Koyyada, an aspiring computer scientist, was shot and killed while delivering Chinese food.
Moments before his murder, 26-year-old delivery driver Raviteja Koyyada placed a paper bag containing Chinese food on the front porch of a Shepard Street home.
But that delivery order wasn’t actually called in from that house.
The call came from an IP address down the block — from the home of the 21-year-old woman who allegedly stole Koyyada’s car on Jan. 19 and shot him in the process, driving away as he bled and stumbled.
Continue reading ‘Suspect Arrested In Delivery Driver Murder’
by | Mar 13, 2025 10:47 am | Comments (10)
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A dozen dirt bikes and ATVs seized by city police in May 2020.
Police arrested a 21-year-old who participated in a Long Wharf street takeover — just days after Mayor Justin Elicker testified before the state legislature in support of a bill that would expand penalties for street racing.
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by | Mar 12, 2025 9:24 pm | Comments (12)
(Updated) A 43-year-old New Havener wanted for escaping from a halfway house found a way to escape from a state police cruiser, while handcuffed, and run away from the Whalley jail — before police caught up with him a half hour later on Dixwell Avenue.
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by | Mar 7, 2025 10:23 am | Comments (1)
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Justices Nora Dannehy, Steven Ecker, Andrew McDonald, and Raheem Mullins.
How should a judge respond to racist tirades in court from a man purportedly experiencing psychosis?
The state Supreme Court weighed that question at a hearing held at Yale Law School as part of the court’s “On Circuit” initiative to bring oral arguments to educational institutions across the state.
Continue reading ‘Supreme Court Weighs Judge's "Impartiality"’
by | Mar 5, 2025 1:51 pm | Comments (21)
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City Building Official Robert Dillon (right): Olive & Wooster is a rooming house.
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The luxury rooming house at 87 Union St.
A luxury apartment complex with “collective” rentals is an illegal rooming house, and the building owners could face fines for running it.
That’s according to New Haven’s Building Department, which filed a Cease and Desist order accusing Olive & Wooster, one of the new high-end apartment complexes in Wooster Square, of violating the city’s zoning ordinance by running portions of the building as rooming houses.
Continue reading ‘City Orders Luxury Rooming House To "Cease And Desist"’
by | Mar 4, 2025 3:23 pm | Comments (10)
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Judge Stone: Landlord's "primary motive" wasn't retaliation.
Shelly Thompson, Yonatan Zamir, Jeffrey Taylor, and Vorcelia Oliphant-Macher round out a two-day eviction trial.
A two-day eviction trial that revealed how emotionally fraught a long-term tenant-landlord relationship can get has culminated with a judge ordering the renter to leave because her lease has expired.
The legal debate at the trial centered on what counts as landlord “retaliation.” The judge found that a tenant can’t succeed with such a defense unless she proves that a landlord’s “primary motive” in taking her to court was to punish her for speaking out about housing code concerns.
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by | Mar 4, 2025 1:57 pm | Comments (2)
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LCI's Brennan: "We will not be trying to enforce the judgment against the former owner."
LCI plans to walk back a $2,000 fine it filed against the wrong landlord — as it moves ahead with converting $21,700 in other court-approved civil judgments into property liens.
by | Feb 28, 2025 10:48 am | Comments (10)
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Another 11 cities and counties — mostly from the West Coast — have joined New Haven’s lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect their sanctuary status for undocumented immigrants.
by | Feb 26, 2025 9:12 am | Comments (24)
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“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
That’s the text of the 10th Amendment, which according to local immigration law experts is the basis for New Haven’s lawsuit against the Trump administration to protect its “welcoming city” status for undocumented immigrants.
by | Feb 21, 2025 5:18 pm | Comments (8)
New Haven joined other “eds and meds” cities across the country in seeking to stop a planned cut in federal medical research grants that help power the local economy.
by | Feb 19, 2025 2:47 pm | Comments (18)
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Olive & Wooster: If it quacks like a rooming house ...
Is a luxury apartment complex with “collective” rentals actually an illegal rooming house?
A legal aid attorney argued that it is, as she defended a tenant facing eviction from one of the new high-end apartment complexes that have popped up in recent years on the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
by | Feb 14, 2025 4:58 pm | Comments (8)
Vernon Horn, Marquis Jackson, and Stefon Morant en route to getting their money.
A state panel Friday gave a thumbs up to paying three New Haveners a combined $16 million for spending decades in prison on wrongful convictions — while putting on hold plans to compensate another two.
Continue reading ‘State Closer To Compensating 3 Of 5 Wrongfully Incarcerated Men’
by | Feb 14, 2025 10:31 am | Comments (1)
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Adam Carmon (left), one of five wrongfully incarcerated New Haveners on tap to receive $M, per state Judiciary Committee votes on Friday.
Adam Carmon served 28 years in prison as the man convicted of killing a 7‑month-old girl and paralyzing her grandmother, a verdict a judge belatedly concluded was a miscarriage of justice produced by prosecutorial and police misconduct in New Haven.
“I cannot return to you the 28 years of life,” Superior Court Judge Jon Alander told Carmon on June 13, 2023, as he dismissed the case and interrupted an 85-year prison sentence. “I can give you the certainty that this long nightmare is finally over.”
On Friday, the legislature’s Judiciary Committee will be asked to ratify compensation of $7.9 million for Carmon, a sum calculated by the state claims commissioner employing a formula enshrined in state law: multiply the years served by 200 percent of the median family income in Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘State To Pay $37M For Wrongful Convictions’