City Corporation Counsel Patricia King at City Hall Tuesday.
Will a judge’s decision ordering the acting police chief to vacate her position affect any other interim city department heads?
No, according to the city’s top attorney, who read Monday’s decision — which the Elicker Administration still plans on appealing — as applying narrowly to New Haven’s police chief only.
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The Edgewood yeshiva at 765 Elm St.
Five years after winning a sexual assault case against the rabbi who ran his yeshiva, Eliyahu Mirlis faces yet another potential delay in gaining control of the building — and beginning to collect some of the $22 million owed him.
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Adam Carmon in court Monday.
Serving his 28th year in prison for one of New Haven’s most notorious murders, Adam Carmon returned to court seeking a new criminal trial to argue his innocence based on new evidence.
Mayor Elicker, city attorneys King & Sullivan Monday.
A state judge Monday ordered Renee Dominguez to vacate the position of acting police chief, in a decision that lambastes the Elicker Administration for advancing an “illogical” argument around indefinite acting appointments.
Leroy (holding megaphone), Angaleea, and Nicole Scott at the march; Jericho's murder remains unsolved.
“If you know something, say something!” Leroy Scott pleaded into a megaphone, leading a crowd of supporters in red T‑shirts through a march Saturday in Fair Haven, the neighborhood where his son was murdered in 2015.
Mubarak Soulemane's mother, Omo Mohammed, at his grave.
The arrest of a state trooper for the shooting death of a 19-year-old New Haven man — and what happens next in court — will reverberate nationwide in the ongoing quest for police accountability.
Protesters outside police HQ the week after Soulemane's death.
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Mubarak Soulemane (right), whom a state trooper killed in 2020, shown at his high school graduation in 2018.
More than two years and three months after state trooper Brian North shot and killed New Haven teenager Mubarak Soulemane, the state has wrapped up its investigation of the case — and has arrested and charged the law enforcement officer with one count of first-degree manslaughter.
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Judge Harmon: "Arson endangers lives and terrifies people."
At virtual court hearing on March 28, clockwise from top left: Prosecutor Lisa D'Angelo, Angelo Reyes, defense attorney Alex Taubes, Judge Harmon.
A state judge turned down a convicted Fair Haven arsonist’s plea to get out of prison early, after finding that the “harm and devastation that resulted from his actions that seemed centered in greed and monetary gain” warranted his remaining behind bars.
Kenroy Taylor lost his job as a New Haven police officer on Monday evening, when the Police Commission convened a special meeting to hear his disciplinary case.
Trustworthy. Emotionally Mature. Courageous. A good communicator. And, ideally, from the ranks of the city’s own police department.
A dozen members of the public singled out those characteristics during the first public meeting about what New Haveners would like to see in the city’s next police chief.
Vercillo (pictured with Boris): Teachers threatened, with no back-up.
Paul Vercillo wants people to know what happened when he tried to fend off a threatened attack by a student in and right outside Room 300 — before Vercillo was branded nationwide as a criminal.
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Still from video presented at liquor control hearing, capturing customers entering employee counter area.
The owner of a trouble-spot liquor store made a pitch about the challenges he faces with sometimes violent customers — and some promises to improve his operation — in hopes of keeping his liquor permit in the face of neighborhood opposition.
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Mayor Elicker at Thursday's presser with city, state and federal partners.
The Elicker Administration has launched a new local-state-federal partnership focused on helping formerly incarcerated adults who are at risk of being victims or perpetrators of gun violence.
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Ten police officers see off parents at Dr. Mayo Wednesday afternoon.
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Jennifer Ivey with daughter Zamyra Warren at pick-up Wednesday: safe but worried, and considering leaving town.
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Assistant Chief Karl Jacobson and Mayor Elicker at Wedneday's presser.
A day after gunmen fired 23 rounds in front of a preschool at dismissal time, social workers and cops showed up to reassure families, and the cops announced they’ve arrested the alleged shooters.
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In virtual court Wednesday morning: Assistant Corp Counsel Blake Sullivan, Judge Michael Kamp, plaintiff attorney Jerald Barber.
A mayor may keep someone in a top job indefinitely even if the Board of Alders exercises its right to reject her appointment — as long as the mayor keeps getting reelected.
A city lawyer offered that interpretation of the city charter in court Wednesday when pressed by a skeptical judge in a case called Bosie Kimber v. Renee Dominguez.
Alders Richard Furlow and Charles Decker at Legislation Committee hearing.
A proposed rent-capping amendment to the city’s new “inclusionary zoning” (IZ) law is now one vote away from adoption, after committee alders voted unanimously in support of the update.
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Defense attorney Kevin Smith and Qinxuan Pan in court Wednesday.
Fourteen months to the day after Qinxuan Pan allegedly murdered Yale grad student Kevin Jiang, a local pastor sat in a sixth-floor courtroom and prayed for the victim’s family — as well as for the suspect, for a grieving local Chinese community, and for justice.
Moments later, another session ended within minutes with those prayers left hanging.
Cannabis zoning map proposal; legal sales districts shaded in purple.
Should the city allow for the legal sale of cannabis on Long Wharf? Or is recreational pot not a good part of the plan for that to-be-developed waterfront district?
Local legislators grappled with those questions — among many others — as they worked through a first draft of the city’s proposed zoning regulations for where marijuana sales may and may not take place in town.
New Haven’s gun violence came to Gary Winfield’s front door Monday night — and left him as resolved as ever to find alternative solutions to “lock-em-up” policies.
Acting Police Chief Renee Dominguez (right) with CAO Rush-Kittle and Mayor Elicker at Monday's presser.
City police recently made 10 different arrests in gun-related incidents that took place between July 2020 and late March of this year.
And the Elicker Administration has picked a Hamden-based contractor to roll out the police department’s 500-surveillance-camera plan — with no timeline in sight.
Cop recruits take oath in November: Preparing to hit streets, cut OT costs.
The police overtime budget is slated to top $10.6 million next fiscal year, as the department grapples with its lowest number of sworn officers in decades.
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In virtual court earlier on March 4. Clockwise from left: Assistant Corp Counsel Blake Sullivan, Judge Michael Kamp, plaintiff attorney Jerald Barber.
When facing “silence” in the charter, should a state court err on the side of respecting the mayor’s authority to pick a police chief — or on the side of respecting the alders’ authority to turn one down?
A former Yale School of Medicine employee pleaded guilty to fraud and tax charges related to her theft of $40 million worth of computer and electronic hardware from her employer.
