by | Feb 21, 2025 5:18 pm | Comments (0)
New Haven joined other “eds and meds” cities across the country in seeking to stop a planned cut in federal medical research grants that help power the local economy.
by | Feb 19, 2025 2:47 pm | Comments (18)
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Olive & Wooster: If it quacks like a rooming house ...
Is a luxury apartment complex with “collective” rentals actually an illegal rooming house?
A legal aid attorney argued that it is, as she defended a tenant facing eviction from one of the new high-end apartment complexes that have popped up in recent years on the downtown edge of Wooster Square.
by | Feb 14, 2025 4:58 pm | Comments (8)
Vernon Horn, Marquis Jackson, and Stefon Morant en route to getting their money.
A state panel Friday gave a thumbs up to paying three New Haveners a combined $16 million for spending decades in prison on wrongful convictions — while putting on hold plans to compensate another two.
Continue reading ‘State Closer To Compensating 3 Of 5 Wrongfully Incarcerated Men’
by | Feb 14, 2025 10:31 am | Comments (1)
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Adam Carmon (left), one of five wrongfully incarcerated New Haveners on tap to receive $M, per state Judiciary Committee votes on Friday.
Adam Carmon served 28 years in prison as the man convicted of killing a 7‑month-old girl and paralyzing her grandmother, a verdict a judge belatedly concluded was a miscarriage of justice produced by prosecutorial and police misconduct in New Haven.
“I cannot return to you the 28 years of life,” Superior Court Judge Jon Alander told Carmon on June 13, 2023, as he dismissed the case and interrupted an 85-year prison sentence. “I can give you the certainty that this long nightmare is finally over.”
On Friday, the legislature’s Judiciary Committee will be asked to ratify compensation of $7.9 million for Carmon, a sum calculated by the state claims commissioner employing a formula enshrined in state law: multiply the years served by 200 percent of the median family income in Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘State To Pay $37M For Wrongful Convictions’
by | Feb 13, 2025 5:06 pm | Comments (8)
West Haven Officer Robert Rappa's body-worn camera footage. Note: Videos show graphic violence.
West Haven police had been following Aaron Freeman for seven months — setting up controlled buys of crack cocaine, watching him allegedly come and go from a Mill River Crossing apartment rented by a woman he appeared to be in a relationship with.
That drug-focused investigation culminated with an early-morning raid of the Grand Avenue residence that led to the cops’ seizure of nearly $6,600 in cash, multiple cellphones, and dozens of pills and baggies filled with white and tan powder substances.
That raid also sparked a shoot-out between police and Freeman, 35, in front of an 8‑year-old girl, a 32-year-old woman, and a 52-year-old grandfather, killing Freeman and injuring two West Haven cops.
by | Feb 13, 2025 4:21 pm | Comments (4)
Tweed New Haven Airport was cleared out Thursday morning after a passenger on board a plan about to take off started talking about bombs.
by | Feb 11, 2025 3:52 pm | Comments (5)
Donovan: Don't let DOJ "dox" its own FBI agents.
A New Haven and Bridgeport law firm has catapulted into the thick of a nationwide effort to halt the Trump administration’s purging of the executive branch and retaliation against career federal officials who investigated the president and Jan. 6 rioters.
by | Feb 11, 2025 3:48 pm | Comments (13)
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Mandy CEO Gurevitch: Transparency benefits landlords and tenants.
One of the city’s largest landlords has settled a tenant-discrimination case by agreeing to adopt a formal policy detailing which criminal convictions it will and won’t consider before signing a lease with a prospective renter.
by | Feb 10, 2025 2:32 pm | Comments (12)
West Haven Officer Robert Rappa's body-worn camera footage. Note: Videos show graphic violence.
“We recognize they’re going to go in either way,” city housing authority director Shenae Draughn explained when asked why her agency provided a regional police task force with a key to a Mill River Crossing apartment in advance of an early-morning drug raid-turned-fatal shoot-out with a civilian, as an 8‑year-old was nearby.
by | Feb 7, 2025 8:24 pm | Comments (40)
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Elicker: "Trump is trying to punish those who disagree and coerce local authorities... into carrying out his agenda."
New Haven has teamed up with San Francisco and Portland to sue the Trump administration in order to protect its status as a “welcoming city” for undocumented immigrants.
by | Feb 7, 2025 4:04 pm | Comments (17)
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Draughn: No comment on why housing authority gave police key after being presented with warrant.
New Haven’s public housing authority provided police with a key to the Mill River Crossing townhouse unit that a drug enforcement regional taskforce raided in the pre-dawn dark — leading to a fatal shoot-out with a civilian, as an 8‑year-old was nearby.
The housing authority provided that key to the cops after being presented with a search warrant that — more than a week after the death of 35-year-old suspect Aaron Freeman and the injuries of two West Haven officers — remains shrouded in mystery.
by | Feb 7, 2025 9:34 am | Comments (9)
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LCI's Brennan, at the scene of a recent tenant-displacing fire in Newhallville.
The Livable City Initiative (LCI) has collected $27,200 over the past few months in hearing officer-approved fines of landlords who have missed inspections, failed to register with the city’s rental business licensing program, or not acted quickly enough to correct blight or housing code violations at their properties.
And the agency is now taking four more landlords to court in a bid to collect an additional $23,700.
by | Feb 6, 2025 4:41 pm | Comments (18)
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AG Tong: "We need big-brain constitutional knife fighters."
Connecticut’s “people’s lawyer” is putting out a call for reinforcements.
by | Feb 4, 2025 2:32 pm | Comments (3)
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Outside Biohaven's 215 Church office.
Pharma giant Pfizer has agreed to pay $59 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing a local biopharmaceutical company of paying “kickbacks” to healthcare providers to induce them to prescribe its migraine-fighting drug to Medicaid patients.
by | Feb 3, 2025 5:08 pm | Comments (10)
West Haven Officer Robert Rappa's body-worn camera footage. Note: Videos show graphic violence.
5:30 a.m. at the Mill River Crossing housing complex. Police enter an apartment with a key. “My baby!” a woman cries out. Gunshots ring out. A 35-year-old man is killed, two cops injured.
That scene is depicted in videos and a “preliminary report” released Monday by the state Office of Inspector General.
Inspector General Robert J. Delvin released the documents regarding a Jan. 29 early-morning shoot-out that left 35-year-old Aaron Freeman dead and two West Haven police officers injured. An officer — it’s unclear yet which one — killed Freeman, after Freeman allegedly shot first.
by | Feb 3, 2025 10:33 am | Comments (13)
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Cherif, with Scotch: Stipulation reached, eviction trial avoided.
(Updated) A mom of three young disabled children can stay in her Orchard Street apartment through the end of May — per a court-mediated agreement she struck with her landlord on the day her eviction case was set to go to trial.
by | Jan 29, 2025 4:21 pm | Comments (6)
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Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Segui, and Ofc. Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
The police officer who was fired for his conduct while transporting Richard “Randy” Cox on a fateful ride that ended up paralyzing Cox and costing New Haven $45 million is now back on the job, a year after state arbitrators overturned his termination.
by | Jan 29, 2025 1:42 pm | Comments (15)
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Chief Jacobson (right), with Acting CAO Justin McCarthy and Mayor Elicker at Wednesday press conference.
(Updated) A 35-year-old man died and two West Haven police officers were injured following a shoot-out Wednesday morning in a Grand Avenue apartment complex.
by | Jan 27, 2025 2:04 pm | Comments (2)
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D'Agostino, Wilson, and Zamir: Going up.
Gov. Ned Lamont has nominated New Haven’s Judge Robin Wilson to rise the ranks to the state Appellate Court — while also picking a New Haven legal aid lawyer and a former Hamden state representative to join the judicial bench.
Continue reading ‘Guv Picks Local Legal Talent For Judgeships’
by | Jan 26, 2025 4:38 pm | Comments (4)
Police are investigating a homicide that took place in Fair Haven Heights Saturday afternoon.
by | Jan 23, 2025 3:33 pm | Comments (5)
A photo of Raviteja Koyyada included in the family's GoFundMe.
The killing of 26-year-old restaurant delivery driver Raviteja Koyyada has sparked an outcry both locally and in his home country of India.
Continue reading ‘Sacred Heart Grad, Delivery Driver Mourned’
by | Jan 23, 2025 10:33 am | Comments (3)
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Detective Leonardo Soto, NHPD's longest-serving "special victims" investigator.
The phone awakened Det. Chris Boyle around midnight. His supervisor, Sgt. Cherelle Carr, was calling with a sad story: an 11-month-old baby had overdosed and stopped breathing in an Exchange Street basement apartment.
by | Jan 22, 2025 4:34 pm | Comments (4)
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Pearson's family, including his mom Anita Davies (right), gathered Wednesday to mourn their loved one, who would have turned 31 in less than a month.
Standing on the asphalt at the corner of Grand Avenue and East Pearl Street, Shaquille Pearson made a fatal decision.
Pearson’s friend “Willie G” was arguing with the occupants of a silver Honda CRV, including an 18-year-old who went by “Bizz” — as documented in a recently released arrest warrant for the teenage suspect in Pearson’s 2023 homicide.
Bizz, sporting a cast from a recent bullet wound, was upset because Willie G had allegedly sold him a fake gun a few days before. Pearson, according to police, went over to join the argument and protect his friend, boosting Bizz’s anger.
Continue reading ‘Warrant: Friend's Death Followed Fight Over Gun’
by | Jan 20, 2025 4:34 pm | Comments (5)
A 26-year-old Hamdenite named Raviteja Koyyada was shot and killed in Newhallville Sunday afternoon as he was at work delivering Chinese food to a house on Shepard Street.
Continue reading ‘Food Delivery Driver Killed In Newhallville’
by | Jan 20, 2025 11:53 am | Comments (6)
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201 Winchester and 235 Winchester (below), now under new ownership.
For the first time in more than two decades, a vacant lot and an incomplete apartment building on Winchester Avenue are no longer controlled by NFL cornerback-turned-housing developer Kenny Hill.