Draughn: No comment on why housing authority gave police key after being presented with warrant.
New Haven’s public housing authority provided police with a key to the Mill River Crossing townhouse unit that a drug enforcement regional taskforce raided in the pre-dawn dark — leading to a fatal shoot-out with a civilian, as an 8‑year-old was nearby.
The housing authority provided that key to the cops after being presented with a search warrant that — more than a week after the death of 35-year-old suspect Aaron Freeman and the injuries of two West Haven officers — remains shrouded in mystery.
Future home for workforce training ... and housing and community space?
(Updated with NHPS comments) Mayor Justin Elicker dropped a hint in paragraph 46 of his annual State of the City address about the potential future state of the Goffe Street Armory: as the home for a new vocational school.
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LCI's Brennan, at the scene of a recent tenant-displacing fire in Newhallville.
The Livable City Initiative (LCI) has collected $27,200 over the past few months in hearing officer-approved fines of landlords who have missed inspections, failed to register with the city’s rental business licensing program, or not acted quickly enough to correct blight or housing code violations at their properties.
And the agency is now taking four more landlords to court in a bid to collect an additional $23,700.
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Emani Adams in her favorite part of the library, the Ives Squared "Tinker Lab."
J. Dennis: A resource to the library, just as the library is a resource to him.
At a desk inside the Ives Main Library, Emani Adams unzipped a bag of neon nail polish. She was trying to decide on a color.
Adams and her seven-month-old baby, who soaked in the room with gleaming eyes, had arrived at the New Haven Free Public Library’s main branch downtown at noon on Thursday, as snow mellowed into light rain.
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The main dish.
While some customers wary of ICE raids stayed home, Alexis Ramirez was as usual marinating sliced pork shoulder in a blend of dried chiles, achiote, pineapple juice, and spices.
Smith, with the thumbs up, showing her family the city she loves.
Call her a starry-eyed young optimist, but Caroline Tanbee Smith believes this could be the century of civic engagement — and the New Haven Green the heart of an activated civic infrastructure that will make us a less isolated, more connected, and a healthier city for all.
As one of six members of the newly minted New Haven Green Conservancy, charged with raising engagement in and dollars for that revitalized vision, Smith is poised to be at the heart of the process.
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COMPASS crew member Nanette Campbell on a call.
(Updated) Social workers and supportive peers plan to continue to respond to New Haven-based 911 calls related to addiction, homelessness, and mental illness through June 2026 — now that the Board of Alders has approved a no-cost yearlong extension of the pilot contract for the city’s COMPASS crisis response team and its associated programs.
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Board prez French on site Monday at Gateway outpost: No word for public on charitable group's situation.
(Updated) Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven furloughed staffers this week, leaving the public to read between the lines as to why or what it means for adults seeking help learning to read.
UNITE HERE Prez Gwen Mills: The struggle begins in New Haven.
Standing room only in Dixwell's Trinity Temple.
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Marks addresses the thousand gathered, pushing for Yale and elected officials to back the working class.
“It feels like a boom is happening in this city,” thundered Rev. Scott Marks to a roaring crowd of 1,000 New Haveners overflowing the pews, hugging the walls, and huddling criss-cross on the floors of Trinity Temple Church of God in Christ (COGIC) on Dixwell Avenue Tuesday night.
Jiminian: "I've just got to keep going" as ICE-raid fears keep customers home.
First sauté the peppers, garlic, and onions. Add your basic Caribbean spice mix, Adobo, then bring the pot of water to a boil. Pop in the gandules, or pigeon peas, add the arroz, the rice, cover, and cook on low heat for about an hour. And voila!, as they say in Spanish: arroz con gandules.
Dottie Green (right): "You should be able to go to any town anywhere on the bus."
Adrian Huq took a quick break between classes Tuesday to join a Transit Equity Day event on the Green — where they called for free bus rides for people 18 and under, before rushing to catch the 234 on Church Street to head back to school.
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Outside Biohaven's 215 Church office.
Pharma giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $59 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing a local biopharmaceutical company of paying “kickbacks” to healthcare providers to induce them to prescribe its migraine-fighting drug to Medicaid patients.
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West Haven Officer Robert Rappa's body-worn camera footage. Note: Videos show graphic violence.
5:30 a.m. at the Mill River Crossing housing complex. Police enter an apartment with a key. “My baby!” a woman cries out. Gunshots ring out. A 35-year-old man is killed, two cops injured.
That scene is depicted in videos and a “preliminary report” released Monday by the state Office of Inspector General.
Inspector General Robert J. Delvin released the documents regarding a Jan. 29 early-morning shoot-out that left 35-year-old Aaron Freeman dead and two West Haven police officers injured. An officer — it’s unclear yet which one — killed Freeman, after Freeman allegedly shot first.
