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(Updated) Jebrell Conley appeared to fire first as cops boxed him in and tried to arrest him on robbery-shooting charges at a car wash just over the New Haven-West Haven border.
Three of those officers — including two city cops — responded by shooting and killing Conley.
Those details are included in a preliminary report released by the state Office of the Inspector General on Monday afternoon.
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Laura Glesby | Sep 23, 2024 4:18 pm
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Harold Jones, in the "flow" scooping early fall leaves in Upper Westville.
“You can’t work with a cluttered mind,” said Harold Jones as he de-cluttered the Ijeh family’s front yard — on a job outing where stories of incarceration and reentry, witnessed and experienced from different angles, had a chance to intersect.
U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery and DEA Special Agent David Lanzoni: This was the "largest seizure of fake pills we've seen in New England."
A garage-turned-“lab” equipped with 2,000-pound pill-pressing machines churned out two million synthetic opioid pills containing ingredients more potent than even fentanyl — and now sits at the center of Connecticut’s largest ever clandestine drug manufacturing bust.
... and 50 senior dwellings approved for 34 Level.
The City Plan Commission signed off on 162 new mostly affordable apartments to be built in Newhallville, West Rock, and Whalley — as part of three more new-construction projects involving the housing authority’s nonprofit development affiliate, the Glendower Group.
Myra Smith: "I feel powerless when it comes to this population."
Myra Smith walked into the Wilson Library Branch with her mind made up about supervised substance use centers: “It is NOT coming to the Hill. It’s not.”
She left with more openness to the concept as a way to address the opioid crisis that has overwhelmed her neighborhood. “I’m not saying I’m totally against it. This sounds wonderful,” she said — as long as it’s implemented with care for the surrounding community.
Owen Agba, Grace Sherman, and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez: No phones, no problems.
When Barnard School eighth-graders Grace Sherman and Nathaly Ynoa Martinez and Owen Agba arrived at school Friday morning, they put their smartphones in magnetically sealed pouches — which they likely wouldn’t unlock until the end of the day.
After participating in a year-long experiment in phone-free classrooms, they looked forward to another day of in-person learning and socializing with friends, unmired by the distractions of TikTok and Instagram. Meanwhile, their governor and one of their U.S. senators popped into their school to learn about how that’s all going.
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Jebrell Conley (pictured) died after Thursday's police shooting.
(Updated) Jebrell Conley was at a car wash Thursday when police shot and killed him during a confrontation while serving a warrant, according to people familiar with the incident.
Roosevelt Watkins came out to the Elm Street courthouse steps Thursday morning to help make protest signs reading “Collecting Cans Is Not A Crime” — before heading inside to support a 22-year-old homeless man who has been locked up for the past three weeks for a can-throwing bomb scare.
Birckhead-Morton in court with attorney David Grudberg: "I think there's a connection with policing, militarization" that inspires Black Lives Matter and pro-Palestine protesters alike.
Craig Birckhead-Morton took the train from Harlem to New Haven Thursday morning to close out one chapter of his on-campus pro-Palestine activism — before resuming his critique of state violence in the Middle East as a grad student in New York City.
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Ibrahim Yusif: “I'm trying [to bring my family from Sudan to New Haven], but it's a difficult thing.”
Ibrahim Yusif grew up near the city of El Geneina in Darfur in western Sudan. One of five brothers and three sisters, he lived on the farm where his family grew mangoes, guavas, lemons, tomatoes, okra, sweet potatoes, millet, corn, and beans. “We harvest it over there and we take it to El Geneina to sell, before the war.”
Yusif is one of a growing number of Sudanese refugees who have relocated to New Haven — and are urging city residents and political leaders in their adopted home country to pay attention to, and to help stop, one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
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Judge Wax-Krell: "The plaintiffs were unfortunately let down by everyone who they trusted to get them the raises they were promised."
A state judge threw out a lawsuit filed by two retired city workers on the grounds that the Board of Alders dropped the ball when trying to provide those unionized employees with a pay bump — outside of the collective bargaining process.
Elm City Reentry Pilot participants Michael White (with son Micah) and Kevin Boyd: Cash transfer program was a "life saver."
An extra $500 a month didn’t cover every bill for Michael White as he reacclimated to life in New Haven outside of prison.
But it did allow him to stay home a bit longer with his newborn son; help him and his wife start their own “last-mile delivery” small business; cover some of the costs of groceries and diapers.
“You could rely on it. There was no hesitation. No withholding,” White said about those cash transfers. “You could count on that” regardless of what else may be going on. “It was everything.”
Two handmade signs, only one still legible, commemorate the Grand Avenue block where Malik Jones died.
Norm Clement joined a dozen public testifiers early in September to call for an official corner sign honoring Malik.
The words “Justice For Malik” have nearly faded from one hand-painted wooden board nailed to a Grand Avenue post.
A more durable sign bearing Malik Jones’s name may soon rise alongside it — inscribing the memory of a bright, adventurous 21-year-old whom an East Haven cop shot to death in 1997.
On issues ranging from the federal Department of Education’s existence to companies’ use of algorithm-based “targeted pricing,” New Haven voters have heard a clear choice this week from candidates for Congress.
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Lisa Gray and Thomas Breen | Sep 17, 2024 12:20 pm
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DuBois-Walton: A new top-level civic challenge.
(Updated) The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, the region’s largest philanthropy guiding efforts to improve civic life, has tapped veteran community leader Karen DuBois-Walton to guide it into a new era.
