COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell hear out Ollie Cooper, who's homeless, and share information about possible housing.
Key players at crisis-team launch: Mayor Justin Elicker (at left) and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who secured $2 million, in top photo; city resilience director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo (center); community services chief Mehlul Dalal.
Social worker Yichu Xu and “peer recovery specialist” Nanette Campbell reported for duty Tuesday to start helping cops and firefighters deal with emergency calls — and pilot a new way of dealing with people in crisis.
A 68-year-old New Havener named Damaso Rosario Luna was struck and killed by a car on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard Saturday night, marking just the latest pedestrian fatality on one of the city’s most dangerous roads for walkers.
The Wallace St. side of the clock factory: Seen better days.
Grand visions of a new community rising from the ashes of the old Hamilton Street clock factory have disintegrated into a foreclosure lawsuit — and finger-pointing between an Oregon-based developer and the Elicker Administration about why it all fell apart.
The Wine Thief at 181 Crown: Boxing out "package" competitor.
A Crown Street wine shop has succeeded in stopping a booze-dispensing competitor from opening down the street, at least for now, according to a proposed agreement that would put an end to a months-long court case.
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Officers making a forceful arrest at the CT Financial Center last year.
Punches to the head and stomach likely won’t be taken out of New Haven cops’ use-of-force toolbox anytime soon.
But some design changes to make the police department lobby less intimidating may be on the way — along with better and more comprehensive body-cam video.
Co-conspirator, or victim? Candidates Barber and Carchia (pictured) differ.
A campaign contractor agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to falsifying petition signatures in the 2017 probate judge race — sparking a back-and-forth between the 2022 candidates over where responsibility ends and victimhood begins.
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Probate Court Judge Graves (right) with Charles Warner Jr. and Crawford's portrait.
Without him, said retired state Supreme Court Justice Flemming Norcott, Jr., there would be no Black justices on Connecticut’s highest court — or maybe even on the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Oct 21, 2022 9:41 am
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Det. Blaisdell at police presser.
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John Tubac at his HSC graduation, weeks before his murder.
“You are the fucking guy who was racing in front of my house,” a 25-year-old New Havener allegedly said after confronting a teenager in his truck late at night in Fair Haven this summer.
“I’m ready to shoot,” he threatened.
He then noticed what would turn out to be a BB gun on the truck’s dashboard.
(Opinion) I oppose defunding the police. This should not be interpreted as an endorsement of improper and illegal police practices in the Black community. Far from it. I remain wedded to my longstanding belief that law enforcement in general is a microcosm of the larger society.
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Oct 19, 2022 1:52 pm
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Godparents Amado and Rosaura Escorbort (right) at Wednesday's presser.
A truck racing argument in Fair Haven led to a man shooting and killing 17-year-old High School in the Community graduate John Tubac — according to city cops who have now arrested the alleged murderer.
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Oct 17, 2022 8:57 pm
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Alder Antunes (right) with Officer Hinton's wife Genoveva and kids.
Mourners at Monday's Board of Alders meeting.
Several dozen city cops, family members, and friends turned out to City Hall to honor the life of New Haven Police Officer Michael Hinton one day after the eight-year veteran died of cancer.
Probate judge candidates Jerald Barber and Americo Carchia at WNHH FM.
Voters who make it to the 10th line of the election ballot on Nov. 8 will continue a tradition dating back to 1666: Electing New Haven’s probate judge.
Bobby Johnson walks out of Church Street courthouse to freedom in 2015 after nine years of false imprisonment.
The individuals who murdered an innocent man, who framed an innocent teen, who copped a fake confession all made choices. So did Nicholas Dawidoff when he told their story — and he has now left New Haven with a choice of our own.
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Oct 13, 2022 5:20 pm
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Calhoun's family and friends outside of Hartford courthouse Thursday.
A New Haven-based criminal defense attorney took aim at the so-called “jailhouse informant industrial complex” as he sought to convince the state Supreme Court to overturn a Church Street South murder conviction.
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Oct 12, 2022 4:50 pm
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Should a Church Street South murder conviction be thrown out because a trial judge didn’t explicitly tell jurors that two key witnesses were “jailhouse informants”?
That question looms over a decade-old New Haven homicide case that will be heard by the state Supreme Court this Thursday.
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Officer Chad Curry.
Officials Friday afternoon released this dash camera video of Officer Curry being shot and returning fire. (Warning: The video depicts images of violence.)
Police Friday made an arrest in Hartford of a 36-year-old New Haven man accused of having shot New Haven cop Chad Curry earlier in the day.
(Opinion) Politicians are planning — or praying? — for fiscal rain. Frontier now has free rein to prey on fiber-optic high-speed internet customers thanks to a labor double cross. And New Haven is praying for a respected veteran cop who got shot on duty.
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Former city cop Morgillo (right) facing assault charges in court in 2019.
A city police officer with a history of domestic violence resigned from the force — days before he could have been fired for a repeated track record of not telling the truth on the job.
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Sep 30, 2022 1:44 pm
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Shaneka Woods, in 2012.
Five years after Shaneka Woods was struck and killed by a car while crossing Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, city police have arrested the driver allegedly responsible for the fatal hit-and-run.
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Have you seen these people? If so, cops want to know.
City and Yale police have turned to the public for help, asking if anyone can identify a group of people who may have witnessed or even participated in an alleged hate crime downtown earlier this month.
