by | Dec 11, 2012 12:54 pm | Comments (7)
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Officer Ingles charmed the jury.
Those young men on the street — do they grab their baggy pants because they don’t wear belts, or because they’re carrying guns?
by | Dec 10, 2012 5:59 pm | Comments (3)
Neigher: Law protects a free press.
A Superior Court judge Monday quashed an attempt to compel a reporter to take the stand and produce notes about a criminal case.
by | Nov 26, 2012 8:38 am | Comments (6)
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After 14 years on the beat, New Haven’s best-sourced crime reporter is moving to the other side of the desk.
by | Oct 17, 2012 2:28 pm | Comments (1)
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The fourth-floor conference room at police headquarters was the scene Tuesday of weekly meeting of top cops and community members — as well as the setting for a possible scene in a documentary about how a department puts community policing into practice.
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by | Oct 4, 2012 11:21 am | Comments (1)
Next week, Alexandra Sanders will finish up a top local journalism job and move to New York, and the New Haven Register will seek its fourth City Hall reporter in the last three years.
by | Sep 5, 2012 1:22 pm | Comments (0)
The New Haven Register’s corporate CEO was headed to town Wednesday to address the newsroom about the company’s latest news: It has just filed for bankruptcy protection again.
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by | Sep 5, 2012 7:10 am | Comments (0)
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Faster than you could call “Honey, get me rewrite!” the New Haven Register got a zoning break Tuesday night.
by | Aug 14, 2012 2:46 pm | Comments (16)
A promising lead turned cold Tuesday as cops turned to Facebook for new clues in a 15-year-old girl’s disappearance.
by | Aug 2, 2012 2:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Yasani Spencer leads a discussion about bullying.
In middle school, Yasani Spencer wanted a hug from a boy she had a crush on.
“I’m not giving that fat hippopotamus a hug,” he responded.
by | Jul 13, 2012 8:00 am | Comments (1)
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Publisher Wiley.
The Legislation Committee of the Board of Aldermen gave the penultimate necessary approval to a zoning change proposal that would allow the New Haven Register to sell its building to a store rather than a factory.
by | Jul 4, 2012 9:50 am | Comments (4)
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Berkowitz at the podium.
In a visit to the President Obama’s pad for a forum on “Citizen-Based Innovation,” SeeClickFix founder Ben Berkowitz shared lessons from New Haven, including how he went from helping clean walls to writing on them himself.
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‘Ben Berkowitz Drops
In On The White House’
by | Jun 21, 2012 8:13 am | Comments (4)
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Register Publisher Tom Wiley pitches City Plan.
The New Haven Register assigned half a dozen staffers to a City Hall meeting, but only one was there to report on the news. The rest were making it.
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‘Register-Retail Switcheroo
Gets First Regulatory OK’
by | Jun 1, 2012 1:04 pm | Comments (12)
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Shareef: “It’s the sensation.”
Biggs put a video starring his alleged Tre Blood buddies in the “Klean Up Krew” on the Internet for all to see. The Man was only too happy to watch.
by | May 30, 2012 4:03 pm | Comments (0)
He was a Yale professor who served on New Haven’s Board of Aldermen, and wrote a book about it.
by | May 18, 2012 11:31 am | Comments (27)
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Digital First VP Miller leads the crowd through a Power Point.
You won’t get a factory. You might get a supermarket.
by | May 7, 2012 4:13 pm | Comments (13)
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The owners of the New Haven Register plan to ask the city for a zoning variance to help lure a big-box store — but not an Adult Video Liquidators or “Luv” boutique — to the campus the paper plans to leave on Long Wharf.
by | Apr 11, 2012 3:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Luna and Ronja Maritschnegg-Ramirez got new library cards and the New Haven Free Public LIbrary got a new look and vocabulary as it began marching into its 126th year.
by | Mar 4, 2012 9:58 am | Comments (3)
Electromechanical supervisor Tom Powers takes a final look at print news. He now reads his news online.
11:49 p.m.: A plate comes off the “bender” of the New Haven Register’s press, and the last home-printed daily newspaper run is ready to roll.
by | Feb 26, 2012 1:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Zania Collier argues her point.
The Divas Club came to the consensus that this wasn’t Terry McMillan’s best book. But the group divided on another issue: is Savannah Jackson a “ho”?
“I have a problem with Savannah Jackson,” said Zania Collier. “I just thought she was very shallow.”
“No, she wasn’t!” replied Sharon Brooks.
by | Feb 22, 2012 10:59 am | Comments (1)
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Farfallina (the butterfly) flew in directly from the carnevale in Venice. The Mad Hatter emerged out of Alice in Wonderland. They were among roving bands of politely unruly revelers Tuesday night marking 125 years of the New Haven Free Public Library.
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‘Library Parties Like It's
1887 -- & Beyond 2012’
by | Feb 20, 2012 9:08 am | Comments (26)
The “cone of silence” has lifted: We’d love to hear your feedback on all our stories, and publish some of it under a retooled comments process.
by | Feb 17, 2012 9:34 am | Comments (1)
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After five years interviewing government officials for the New Haven Register, Abbe Smith will be writing their quotes from the other side, as a Capitol press aide.
by | Feb 16, 2012 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
Some want it shut down permanently. Others offer ideas for how to make the system better. Either way, readers have given us a lot to think about as we plan next steps during our “cone of silence” hiatus from posting reader comments on Independent stories.
by | Feb 15, 2012 4:07 pm | Comments (0)
For Jack Kramer, it turns out, there is journalistic life after the New Haven Register.
by | Feb 10, 2012 9:26 am | Comments (0)
The Hartford Courant quickly removed a controversial statement from its longtime cartoonist from the web, but not before New Haven’s mayor and schools chief saw it — and pounced back.