At Saturday's press conference at First Calvary Baptist Church.
A dozen Black community leaders, politicians, and pastors gathered in Newhallville to mourn the latest nation-shaking episode of police brutality — and to draw a connection between the arrests of five Memphis cops for the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, and the arrests of five New Haven cops for the mishandling of Richard “Randy” Cox.
At a July 2021 virtual court hearing in Newton's murder case. Clockwise from top left: Defense attn’y Christopher Duby, Judge Harmon, state prosecutor Stacey Miranda, Rashod Newton.
A state judge sentenced Rashod Newton to 35 years in prison after the 29-year-old New Havener pleaded guilty to murdering his girlfriend, Alessia Mesquita.
Nancy Jordan with 18-month-old Tramire as she and fellow church parishioners delivered holiday gifts to his home two months after a stray bullet struck him on his family's front porch.
When Nancy Jordan does her “clap-out dance” at police headquarters Friday, she doesn’t plan to make people wait outside.
TAC's David Dinielli and law student Eleanor Runde -- who worked on an amicus brief in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case about tech platforms' legal liabilities -- at WNHH FM.
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A 42-year-old New Havener named Judith Williams was struck and killed by a car on Whalley Avenue Monday night, becoming the city’s first pedestrian fatality of the new year.
Police have identified the person they believe may have shot dead Michael Wint, a 33-year-old New Havener who had used his own experience seeking to straighten out his life to help other young people do the same.
An off-duty Board of Ed security officer detained a teen allegedly in the act of breaking into his car — then found himself detained by the police, and arrested.
New Haven can stop making drug arrests (while still confiscating fentanyl). It can stop making gun arrests (while confiscating more illegal guns). It can build needed new housing in places it never dreamed before, or change or even override zoning barriers. It can even teach kids how to read rather than teach them how not to read.
So says Liam Brennan. He bases those conclusions on his personal and professional life experiences. And he’d like to give New Haveners the chance to elect someone who intends to lead the city into that new era.
U.S. Rep. DeLauro with Kristin Song at Wednesday's "Ethan's Law" announcement at the Botanical Garden of Healing.
The latest chapter in the quest to tackle deadly American gun violence began Wednesday with a mix of optimism and cold realism, in a New Haven garden created in that spirit.
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Reuel Parks: "When we are unwilling to intervene, we miss an opportunity to prevent the worst outcome."
An ex-parole officer and clinical therapist who grew up “dodging violence” in the Bronx has been chosen to lead the city’s new office of violence prevention — and to use his lived and professional experience to help quell cycles of brutality.
Chief Karl Jacobson (at left in photo): Not waiting on the courts.
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Officer Nesto.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson isn’t waiting for the slow wheels of the criminal court to finish turning before looking into why one of his allegedly “n‑word” slinging officers was arrested for allegedly harassing trick-or-treaters.
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Neighbors Marjorie Weiner and Meg Friedman checking out Beecher Park photos before Wednesday's meeting.
Lizzy Donius was driving near Valley Street on Dec. 19 with a car full of 16-year-olds, including her own son, when a volley of police vehicles, sirens blaring, raced past.
Landlord William Wong: Eviction decision was "reasonable."
A state judge has ordered a Blake Street family of renters to leave their apartment by the end of the month — siding with a small local landlord desperate to take back possession of an apartment he hasn’t collected rent on in roughly half a year, and leaving a hardship-beset tenant to scramble to find a new place to live for her and her kids.
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Now-retired Officer Ronald Pressley (right) with attorney Matt Popilowski.
(Updated) Five arrested city cops pleaded not guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor charges stemming from their roles in the incident that left 36-Year-old New Havener Richard “Randy” Cox paralyzed while in police custody. They entered those pleas less than a week after one of those same arrested officers submitted his papers to retire.
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Matthew Harp and attorney Karen Baldwin Kravetz in court Tuesday.
A state judge fined local landlord Matthew Harp another $500 Tuesday for now-fixed housing code violations at one of his company’s Hill rental properties.
A 41-year-old West Haven man named Charles Miller was shot and killed on Pond Lily Avenue on the far west side of town Friday night, becoming the city’s second homicide victim of the year — and the third in the past week.
District Manager Lt. Fumiatti, Asst. Chief Zannelli, and Chief Jacobson on Thursday.
If retaliation is to come — and the police have concern that it might — for the Jan. 1 murder of Dontae Myers in Fair Haven, it will likely arrive in the form of a vehicle bearing young men with guns.
That’s why the police brass turned out in force Thursday night to inform Fair Haveners that motor vehicle units have been deployed to the neighborhood to try to stop suspicious vehicles that may be carrying drugs or guns.
And they will stay, along with other resources, until the danger or crime spike is reduced.
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Seramonte tenant Paul Boudreau: “We started the union in hopes that it would wake somebody up.”
A large Hamden landlord has moved to overturn three rent-hike-stifling decisions — and has asked a state court to declare the town’s Fair Rent ordinance “unlawful” as part of a broader pushback against growing tenants union organizing.
