Jessica Light (right): Feeling "vindicated" by jury's verdict.
(Updated) A federal jury has awarded former Worthington Hooker elementary school teacher Jessica Light $1.1 million in damages after finding that the school’s principal defamed and retaliated against her for publicly raising concerns about the safety of returning to in-person learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Retreat affiliate attorney Richard Weinstein: "You have a receiver in place. If he wants to throw out perishables, obviously, he can throw out perishables."
(Updated) An abandoned drug rehab center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard feels a bit “like the rapture,” a foreclosure-pursuing attorney said in state court on Friday.
There’s rotting food in the kitchen. There are utility-turn off notices lying around. And there’s now more than $300,000 in back property taxes due.
It’s as if “people just picked up one day and left,” the attorney said — even though the addiction treatment center has been closed for a month and a half.
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Aug 9, 2024 9:21 am
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Isael Arroyo, Y'madelis Arroyo, Jay'na Estrada, and Yesenia Arroyo mourn their father's death, and commend police for arresting his alleged shooter.
Murder victim Peter "PJ" Arroyo.
A man dressed all in black walked west on Wolcott Street, pulled a gun out of his waistband, and fired shot after shot after shot — killing 42-year-old New Havener Peter Arroyo, whom police believe was not the shooter’s intended victim.
That fatal gunfire took place in broad daylight in Fair Haven on a Monday afternoon in May, in full view of a number of witnesses and — crucially, for the police investigation to follow — in full view of surveillance cameras.
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“Pro consumer. Pro competition. Pro innovation.”
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal used those words to herald a federal judge’s ruling from earlier this week that Google is a “monopolist” that has acted illegally to protect the market power of its online search engine.
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Retreat's now-closed 915 Ella T. Grasso location.
Patient records, narcotics, and piles of mail allegedly remained inside a drug rehab center on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard a month after the facility abruptly closed — and were all accessible to anyone able to push through the shuttered complex’s back door.
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Aug 2, 2024 1:42 pm
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Mayor Elicker on the witness stand: City labor relations office handles this stuff.
City Clerk Smart: I signed the amendment.
Can the Board of Alders grant raises to unionized employees through the city budget process without those pay bumps also being ratified by collective bargaining agreements? Or do union contracts have the final word on how much covered municipal workers are paid?
Those questions sit at the center of a bench trial that began Friday morning in a fifth-floor courtroom at the state courthouse at 235 Church St.
The new neighborhood top cop Thursday evening with Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith.
Fifteen-year NHPD veteran Sgt. Chris Alvarado has already seen the estimated 5 percent or so percent of Fair Haven that is troubled by drug dealing and serious crime. As the newly arrived district manager, he’s excited to be discovering the rest.
The apartment-less Grand Ave. property on Tuesday.
(Updated) A lawsuit by a pair of Wooster Square neighbors concerned about backyard shade is jeopardizing plans to transform a series of abandoned Grand Avenue commercial buildings into 112 new places to live.
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Unique Trujillo, a close friend of Joshua Vazquez, at Thursday's arrest announcement.
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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Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
(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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Jul 19, 2024 9:39 am
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Lida Llundo at Thursday's protest: "Yo necesito mi hija."
“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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Emerson Tenants Union members RJ Hinds, Stephanie Perez, Alexander Kolokotronis, Yvonne Byrd-Griffin, and James Blau: On the losing end of Tuesday's Fair Rent rulings.
“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.
Yusuf Gürsey at a pro-Palestinian rally in April, before his death.
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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The now-closed addiction treatment center on the Blvd.
Late Retreat exec Scott Korogodsky: Sought to answer employees' questions, days before taking his own life.
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.
