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A 56-year-old man with a machete — and an apparent history of mental health problems — was shot and killed during an altercation with a fellow resident at the Bella Vista apartment complex on Friday afternoon.
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A former corrections officer at the New Haven Correctional Center on Whalley Avenue was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to selling drugs to inmates — a crime that his lawyer says was brought on by his own addiction.
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Police union Prez Cotto and Mayor Elicker: Deal reached, ratification vote to come.
The Elicker administration and the police union have reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year contract that would increase salaries by 25 percent over the term of the deal.
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by | Oct 1, 2024 2:45 pm | Comments (10)
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450 Sargent: Appraisal dropped from $33M to $29M.
Furniture retail giant IKEA has secured a $4 million discount on their Sargent Drive property’s “fair market value” — and a resulting $186,000 cut to their next local tax bill — after waging a yearslong legal battle over the property’s worth.
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City police are investigating a suspicious death after a 23-year-old Manchester resident fell from a downtown parking garage.
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Protest organizer Kerry Ellington: “The police could have chosen a nonviolent alternative."
Conley's cousins Tamara Flint, Ronisha Moore, and Maya Harris, at Thursday's protest.
A week to the hour after a fatal confrontation between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley, protesters gathered at the car wash where the shooting took place — to criticize law enforcement for how they handled last Thursday’s attempted arrest, and to describe Conley as more than just his criminal record.
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by | Sep 26, 2024 10:35 am | Comments (10)
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Keynote speaker Rev. Barber: "Poverty is a structural reality."
Rev. William Barber had a message for dozens of legal aid staffers and supporters: After 60 years of serving New Haven, don’t “rest your case” against poverty.
Barber, the co-chair of the revived national Poor People’s Campaign and a professor at Yale, was the keynote speaker at a gala for New Haven Legal Assistance Association (NHLAA), an event that filled the beachside venue at Anthony’s Ocean View on Wednesday night.
by | Sep 25, 2024 5:30 pm | Comments (22)
High Times makes Pastore a national decriminalization hero within months of his becoming chief.
Former New Haven Police Chief Nicholas Pastore, a product of the pre-Urban Renewal Hill neighborhood who implemented groundbreaking reforms decades before America embraced them as conventional wisdom, died Tuesday at the age of 87.
by | Sep 25, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (42)
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Conley, as pictured after shooting at police during fatal confrontation on Sept. 19.
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Conley's fifth-grade perfect attendance certificate, as included as exhibit in defense sentencing memo in 2016 federal drug case.
The fatal confrontation last week between police and 36-year-old New Havener Jebrell Conley stemmed from a July 3 robbery in Hamden during which Conley and others allegedly hit, pistol-whipped, and shot a man as they stole his drugs and money.
That in turn stemmed from Conley’s years-long involvement in the illegal drug trade and New Haven gang life — which grew out of a troubled upbringing in the Hill in the 1990s and the shooting death of a brother whom he looked up to as a father.
Those details and many more are included in federal court documents about criminal cases involving Conley, who appeared to fire first at — and then was shot and killed by — city and state police as they sought to serve him with a robbery-shooting warrant late in the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 19, at a car wash just over the New Haven-West Haven town border.
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by | Sep 24, 2024 11:19 am | Comments (5)
State police arrested two men — one from West Haven, one from North Haven — for allegedly leading a 100-strong motorcycle highway takeover from New Haven all the way south to the New York state line.
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State Police Sgt. Richter's body cam footage. Warning: This video contains graphic violence.
(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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by | Sep 23, 2024 3:26 pm | Comments (9)
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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.
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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.
by | Sep 19, 2024 3:21 pm | Comments (14)
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At Thursday's homeless rights courthouse protest.
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.
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by | Sep 19, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (15)
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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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by | Sep 18, 2024 5:28 pm | Comments (9)
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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.
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Three more New Haveners were injured across two more shootings over the past two days.
by | Sep 16, 2024 10:31 am | Comments (9)
Four more people were injured across three different shootings that took place downtown, in Fair Haven, and in Newhallville over the weekend.
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(Updated) Longtime Yale police officer Lt. Roosevelt Martinez was arrested last week and charged with assault in the second degree, after he allegedly hit his wife repeatedly with a weapon until she lost consciousness.
by | Sep 10, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (7)
Two men were injured Monday afternoon during a drive-by shooting in Cedar Hill.
by | Sep 9, 2024 5:27 pm | Comments (13)
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Soryorelis Henry, with husband Darcus: "I felt so alone."
Yale has reached a settlement with 93 fertility clinic patients who received saline instead of fentanyl during excruciating and often traumatizing procedures.
One of those patients, Soryorelis Henry, found herself “screaming and crying” in agony during an egg retrieval that was supposed to be pain-free — and heard the cries of other patients undergoing the same procedure from the waiting room.
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Lieblich: "I had enough."
Benny Lieblich’s 8‑year-old daughter had just gotten out of the back seat of the family’s 2017 Honda Pilot when joy-riding teens hopped out of a stolen car and hopped in.
They drove away, with Benny Lieblich in hot pursuit.
by | Sep 5, 2024 1:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Lt. Pedro Colon (right), with Shamar Gibson's brother James Lamar Jackson, at Thursday's presser.
A dispute between a 26-year-old New Havener and his ex-girlfriend’s uncle led to a fatal afternoon stabbing on Orchard Street — and, two months later, to the fourth homicide arrest out of eight murders so far this year.
by | Sep 5, 2024 11:40 am | Comments (22)
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At the scene of Friday's bomb squad investigation.
A 22-year-old man who regularly returns bottles for cash at Stop & Shop was picking up empty cans on Orange Street when he found three metal canisters.
He decided to throw those objects away after noticing how rusty they were — an action that ended up snarling downtown traffic for hours, having City Hall evacuated, activating the city police’s bomb squad, and leading to his arrest on three felony and two misdemeanor charges.
by | Sep 4, 2024 11:07 am | Comments (22)
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NOA on Crown St. According to downtown's top cop, "This establishment poses an immediate danger to its customers, the commercial businesses that it adjoins, pedestrians, and vehicular traffic."
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Liquor permit suspension sign now up at NOA.
The state has suspended a Crown Street Thai restaurant’s liquor permit after an early Saturday morning shooting — following a stabbing last year and numerous complaints over the past two years — led investigators to believe that the business is being run “in a manner that imperils public safety.”
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