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Laura Glesby |
May 1, 2024 9:14 am
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Eric Providence of Columbus House, one of the project's advisors, recalled coming home from prison over two decades ago and "knocking on doors" closed shut in an effort to rebuild his life.
A new Yale study will provide one-on-one financial guidance to 238 New Haveners transitioning out of prison, while advocating for longer-term change to reduce poverty among formerly incarcerated people.
Kolokotronis and Blau in Kolokotronis's city-condemned apartment.
The property manager of a church-owned apartment complex on Orange Street has ordered the two lead organizers of the building’s tenants union to move out or face eviction — from city-condemned rental units that they haven’t been able to live in for months.
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Yash Roy and Thomas Breen |
Apr 29, 2024 5:24 pm
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A Yale PhD student will spend the night in New Haven police lockup Monday night, after Yale cops arrested them for allegedly tampering with an American flagpole in Beinecke Plaza during last week’s student-led, pro-Palestinian protest.
Murder victim Ciera Jones: Shot and killed over rap lyrics.
A 21-year-old member of the Exit 8 gang has admitted to murdering 22-year-old Ciera “CeeCee” Jones and conspiring to murder 18-year-old Tashawn Brown three years ago — and now faces up to life in prison, with a recommended sentence of up to 30 years.
A state judge sentenced Qinxuan Pan to 35 years in prison after the former MIT artificial intelligence researcher pleaded guilty to the 2021 murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.
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Laura Glesby |
Apr 17, 2024 2:07 pm
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Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana in court.
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Edgar Becerra protests his former employer, MDF Painting and Power Washing, before the eviction proceedings.
A judge has ruled that Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana must find a new place to live, ending an eviction case that sparked protests over alleged exploitation of migrant workers.
Rabbi Greer: Signs mortgage docs and runs nonprofits while behind bars.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s nonprofit housing organizations received a $12 million boost from a mystery lender — and then saw two longstanding lawsuits ditched by Greer’s sexual-abuse victim.
Amidst a “cloud of smoke” and doubled-parked cars, a 19-year-old driver named Dajon Marques Morris struck and fatally injured a 41-year-old motorcyclist named José Rodríguez in Fair Haven.
Morris then “panicked” and, “fearing for his life,” fled the scene — only to be arrested by city cops roughly 10 months later.
Cracks in the Boathouse's concrete "topping slab."
Three years of legal battles over cracked concrete outside of the Canal Dock Boathouse has ended with the city taking in $600,000 from contractors — after shelling out $288,000 to lawyers.
A 53-year-old New Havener named Arthur Taylor was struck and killed by a car Monday night while he was walking in the travel lanes of the I‑91 highway near Exit 9.
Police hurried to the Amity Road Planet Fitness gym Thursday responding to a bomb threat, amid national protests over Planet Fitness’s locker room policy for transgender members.
Former IRIS chief Chris George (right): Kamash was "generous, community-minded, kind, law-abiding, and upstanding."
A 33-year-old New Havener and Iraqi refugee named Mohamed Najm Kamash admitted this week to lying about his brothers’ affiliation with a terrorist group during his application for U.S. citizenship, and now faces up to five years in prison for the offense.
Kamash himself had no terrorism involvement — and in fact, court records reveal, he had become a volunteer interpreter and mentor for new arrivals, a “responsible, reliable, friendly” city resident who put down a decade of roots in New Haven’s refugee community.
Chief Jacobson: "We see what happens if our officers aren't well."
Sometimes police respond over and over again to the same address for mental health calls that would best be served by an agency like Clifford Beers or COMPASS or the Veterans Affairs medical center.
So the city’s police department wants to add a new lieutenant position focused on making sure those connections take place — for the betterment of community and officer “health and wellness” alike.
The Elicker administration plans to use $2 million in soon-to-expire federal pandemic-relief funds to cover the entirety of a proposed increase to the police department’s overtime budget.
And what will happen when those one-time Covid dollars from D.C. run out next fiscal year? The city plans to lean on unspent salary from a recurring abundance of unfilled police officer positions to help close the extra-duty-expenditures gap.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 21, 2024 2:17 pm
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Cousin Yolanda Ragland at Thursday's protest outside police HQ.
Aseelah Mohammed liked to get her nails done. She had a warm smile and frequently called her mom and cousin and siblings just to check in, even when her own life in New Haven was less than stable.
Mohammed died on George Street — leading family and friends to pressure police to treat the case like a murder, not just an overdose.
City cops, meanwhile, have arrested a 62-year-old for illegal disposal of Mohammed’s body, but have declined to charge anyone with murder after a state medical examiner’s report listed Mohammed’s cause of death as “undetermined.”
Candlelight vigil held on Starr Street Saturday for Maysonet.
An incident police believe say may have started with a fight in New Haven’s Annex neighborhood ended with the shooting death of 25-year-old Deshawn Maysonet of Hamden.
Local landlords Shmuel Aizenberg (top left) and Mendy Edelkopf (bottom left), 2 of 20 signatories of form letter opposing state bill; tenant advocates Sinclair Williams (top right) and Sarah Giovanniello (bottom right, with Amy Eppler-Epstein), in support of bill.
“I am a part of a group of landlords in the area who help each other out by discussing issues and providing support and guidance to each other,” wrote Ocean Management’s Shmuel Aizenberg.
Mandy Management’s Adir Chen wrote that too. So did Julian Cardona and Menahem Edelkopf and Alejandro Soriano and Menahem Lebenhartz and more than a dozen fellow New Haven-area landlords and property managers.
Each “wrote” those same words in individually signed form letters seeking to persuade state legislators to protect their right to evict rent-paying tenants whose leases have expired.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 6, 2024 12:50 pm
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Judge Westbrook: "New evidence" would likely not change outcome.
A panel of appellate court judges has rejected incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer’s bid for a new trial, affirming a lower court’s ruling that “purported new evidence” introduced by the convicted predator lacked credibility — and was unlikely to change a jury’s verdict.
