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Angela Watley.
The man called 911 to say that he was on the side of a bridge and ready to jump.
“I gotta go,” the man said.
“You can’t go right now. I’m talking to you,” responded the voice on the other line.
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Michael and Michelle with mom Marrero: Safe, and grateful.
Jason Shuttleworth.
Four was a lucky number for rookie Firefighter Jason Shuttleworth — and for a little boy named Michael who lives a block from the East Grand Avenue fire station.
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The Chaudharys, safely back at the shop.
After cornering a hit-and-run driver in a parking lot, Sajjad Chaudhary wondered: What if he has a gun?
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Joyner and Anderson: Turned on to literature.
Zelenski, subject of a new book, has felt hampered by Hillhouse changes.
Jessica Zelenski asked her Hillhouse High students to write a paper in defense of Mayella Ewell, a notorious character in To Kill A Mockingbird who falsely accuses a black farmhand of rape.
“I’m asking for some compassion for the girl; I didn’t say you had to like her,” she said when students protested.
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Sgt. Rose Dell at her NHPD office.
After a Mercedes Benz crashed into a Honda CR‑V, which then crashed into a Volkswagen Passat, a 65-year-old man lay dead on Howe Street. A 12-year-old girl clung to life. And the phone rang at Rose Dell’s house.
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Fifth-graders chant the UConn fight song.
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Principal Cordero.
Born and bred in New Haven, Heriberto Cordero got a full ride to Quinnipiac University through a partnership with his local public middle school.
Now, back home as a principal, he wants to help his Fair Haven students follow in his footsteps.
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Leslie Blatteau in the WNHH studio.
Ten years into her job teaching high school in New Haven, Leslie Blatteau loves her work in the classroom — and sees some unsettling signs in where public education is headed.
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Turcio, at right, Thursday outside an evacuated building.
Jim Turcio loved climbing ladders as a kid. He found he still got a kick when he climbed a fire ladder one day this August — then his mood shifted when he looked around him.
The view gave him a new appreciation of the role he took on in New Haven this year. And it changed the lives of hundreds of families.
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Ray Pompano plans to report to Sargent Drive Tuesday morning to work on machine parts, as he has for over 50 years. But first he has an important 6 a.m. stop to make at Sports Haven.
Continue reading ‘After 3 Decades, Union Prez Passes Mantle’
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A limo pulled up to Dixwell’s Stetson branch library, waiting to whisk Diane Brown and her entourage to a rendezvous in the Big Apple.
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Evangeline Rivera could hear the sound of car horns blaring in the background as the woman, near tears, told her she was lost in Fair Haven and needed directions.
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Hardy and Johnson.
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Calistro.
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Velleca, Lewis.
Today’s broadcasts covered advice on how to help New Haven’s homeless population, what it means to be a state prosecutor in the year 2015, the city’s police-community relations, and more.
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Wasilewski, who’s retiring from the force this week.
The Hardy Boys started young Holly Wasilewski on the path to a police career, a path that came to feature human interaction more than baby powder and scotch tape.
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Brianna Rigsbee and Tiffany Fullerton battled congenital blindness and cancer, respectively — and made it to college with high grades and some scholarship money.
Continue reading ‘Blindness, Cancer Couldn’t Hold Them Back’
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The kids pounding a robbery victim called Darryl Snyder “punk-ass security.” The mayor calls him a hero.
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While other teens spend their summer walking to the park to play pickup basketball, 16-year-old Tremont Waters has been traveling the country to play hoops at Nike’s invitation — as his dad fields scholarship offers from basketball-powerhouse universities.
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NEW YORK — Six years after leaving public housing in Westville Manor, Toddchelle Young prepared to wrap up a master’s degree at Columbia — by leading a lesson on a groundbreaking immigration policy hatched in her hometown.
by | Apr 28, 2014 8:22 am | Comments (1)
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Hare and Davis.
She sent a group of Dixwell kids from the old Elm Haven projects to Paris to study ballet. For others she obtained scholarships to local dance schools.
She taught African-American kids to square dance and do the hokey pokey, and most of all to dream big, structure their lives with steps and order, as in a dance, and to believe in themselves.
by | Mar 21, 2014 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
New Haven’s Charlie Pillsbury spread a lot of peace in building up the agency Community Mediation Inc. The agency, from which he has retired, is looking for help in honoring people who have carried on his tradition.
by | Jan 21, 2014 9:36 am | Comments (4)
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Spell with one of his most loyal Saturday clean-up crew members, Yale doctoral candidate Tomasso Bardelli.
Giving a new definition to “flower power,” a star community gardener and retired cop said the time has never been so ripe for social change since the 50 years of that eponymous generation.
He cautioned that pursuing such change requires tenacity and a refusal to give up hope.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Cop’s MLK Message: Zinnias, Marigolds Stop Violence’
by | Aug 1, 2013 2:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Volunteer barber Sangster cut Bealton Dumas’s hair.
Mark McGilton could use a haircut — now that he’s ready to get on his feet after a heroin and crack habit left him homeless.
Continue reading ‘Homeless Line Up For Haircuts—On The Green’
by | Apr 26, 2013 11:03 am | Comments (0)
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Mastropetre
Next Tuesday night, “Master P” (aka Michael Mastropetre) won’t be driving any key witnesses to the mall. Robert Hayden won’t be chasing gunmen through Newhallville. David Acosta won’t be serving warrants.
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After Natalie Elicker lost a mitten in Mitchell Drive, she and her husband walked around for hours looking for it. No luck. Then she turned to SeeClickFix.
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Polan & Gondola stood up to police abuses.
Knox & Wasilewski put the “community” into community policing.
One duo helped murder-victims’ families seek justice. The other duo stood up to police harassment — and got results.
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Faced with an unconscious baby in a bathtub, a hysterical 911 caller had the good fortune of dialing in to Fortuna Iamunno.