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Asher Joseph |
Jul 25, 2024 5:43 pm
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Police announced the arrest of the young man they said shot 16-year-old Joshua Vazquez to death one and a half years ago — and arrested the alleged shooter’s mom as well.
Joshua Vazquez’s family and friends gathered at the Shack community center in West Hills Thursday to mourn his murder and to recognize police for arresting his alleged shooter, who is now 19 years old.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 24, 2024 5:45 pm
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(Updated) State arbitrators have upheld the city’s decision to fire Sgt. Betsy Segui for her supervisory role in the mishandling of a detainee who suffered paralyzing injuries while in police custody — and expressed dismay that the arrested cop still thinks she did nothing wrong on that fateful night.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 19, 2024 9:39 am
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“Justicia por mi hija,” Lida Llundo said into a megaphone on the front steps of the police department, as she held up a framed picture of herself and her five-year-old daughter whom she fears is in great danger. “Yo necesito mi hija.”
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jul 17, 2024 2:55 pm
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“Because.”
That was the key word in the Fair Rent Commission’s rejection of a host of tenants union retaliation complaints, on the grounds that the Emerson Apartments’ new landlord had done no legal wrong in not renewing their leases.
At a memorial service for 70-year-old local peace activist Yusuf Gürsey, friends and colleagues joined in person and over Zoom from all over the world — California, Puerto Rico, Turkey — to share stories and poems for the hit-and-run victim.
All knew him as a lover of languages, a beach fanatic, and a seemingly shy but loyal friend who had a fierce commitment to the liberation of all oppressed people.
Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, there were three separate, non-fatal shootings in New Haven that injured seven victims, leaving one in stable but critical condition.
The Elicker administration took a step closer to paying $14.5 million to the estates of two men who died during a fatal fire at an illegal rooming house, as a key city committee approved a multiple-lawsuit-resolving proposed settlement.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 3, 2024 3:11 pm
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A top executive at a for-profit drug rehab company sought to reassure hundreds of employees — including more than 160 in New Haven — who hadn’t been paid in weeks.
They needed to hear from someone in charge, especially after the company’s CEO had just died by suicide, leading to the sudden closure of addiction treatment centers in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
So he wrote everyone an email.
When will employees be paid? “We hope to have a definitive answer toward week’s end,” the executive, Retreat Behavioral Health Chief Administrative Officer Scott Korogodsky, wrote on June 23.
What are the chances these employees would keep their jobs?
Retreat is committed to continuing the late CEO’s mission “to provide quality substance abuse care and mental health services to all our communities.”
Three days after sending that email, Korogodsky took his own life. The clinics and treatment centers stayed shut.
Now Retreat’s workers are turning to the courts to try to recoup lost pay.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 27, 2024 4:29 pm
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A drug rehab company that shuttered its two New Haven facilities amid two executive suicides over the last week is nearly $230,000 behind in local real estate taxes — with its next $103,000-plus city tax bill due next week.
That’s among the revelations that are emerging about years of financial woes and “corporate anarchy” that plagued for-profit Retreat Behavioral Health before its sudden collapse this past week throwing hundreds of patients and workers into the cold in three different states.
Two and a half years after the city adopted a law designed to require affordable housing to be built as part of New Haven’s market-rate construction boom, the city’s “Inclusionary Zoning” law hasn’t yet created a single new reduced-rent place to live.
Most of the 50 “IZ” affordable apartments approved so far appear to be indefinitely held up by the high cost of borrowing money — even as other, non-“IZ” affordable developments move ahead.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 20, 2024 3:33 pm
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A row has broken out at row homes on Henry Street — leading to holes in the roof, allegations of mismanagement, ownership confusion, back-tax frustration, and two properties heading to the foreclosure auction block this weekend.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 19, 2024 12:13 pm
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The members of a Fair Haven Heights condo association have voted to pay their entire $138,000-plus overdue water bill — and will now try to collect from the complex’s former property manager, whom they accuse of failing to promptly address the leak that left them in such a financial mess.
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Jabez Choi |
Jun 17, 2024 12:41 pm
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(Updated) Police officers kicked their motorcycles into gear on Dixwell Avenue early Monday morning for the start of the funeral procession for Minneapolis officer and New Haven native Jamal Mitchell, who was killed in the line of duty last month.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 11, 2024 2:41 pm
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A Minneapolis police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty two weeks ago will be flown back to Connecticut on Wednesday so he can be buried in his home city of New Haven.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 11, 2024 1:52 pm
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Teresa Clark wiped away tears as she thanked police for so quickly making an arrest in the stabbing murder of her nephew, Travis James — and she braced herself for the long road still to come as she prepares to see his alleged killer in court as she supports the prosecution.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 11, 2024 1:40 pm
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A drive-by shooting during a weekend barbeque in the Hill killed 47-year-old New Havener Marquel Lewis — whom police believe was not the intended target of the violence.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 10, 2024 2:09 pm
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A years-long leak has sunk a Fair Haven Heights condo association into $138,000 in debt — landing the group in bankruptcy court, and leading to a legal fight over whether the association’s water bill or urgent maintenance should be paid for first.
Meanwhile, Winters Run resident Rose Appi has been living with all of her furniture in a storage pod since March as construction crews work to repair the source of the water problem beneath her condo’s kitchen.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 7, 2024 2:05 pm
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Police had the image and nickname of “Money,” a man suspected of stabbing a man to death outside a Whalley convenience store. But they didn’t have his real name.