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NEW HAVEN >> A Silver Alert has been issued for Jeancarlos Torres, 16.Torres is a Latino male with brown hair and brown eyes. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 125 pounds.Torres was last seen Thursday, wearing a black tank top, gray sweatpants and tan boots.Anyone with any information on Torres' whereabouts should call police at 203-946-2864.

NEW HAVEN >> U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy on Friday joined U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro in a meeting with a Norwalk woman who has taken sanctuary at Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal in Fair HavenNury Chavarria, an undocumented immigrant, was supposed to be deported to Guatemala Thursday but instead sought took sanctuary from deportation in the chirch.

BRIDGEPORT >> A New Haven man was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison for fatally shooting a popular grocery store owner during a robbery of the store.It was a crime that shook the community.Jose Salgado and his wife were closing up their small grocery store that had been propping up the city's declining Hollow neighborhood when police said 23-year-old Leighton Vanderberg and 20-year-old Treizy Lopez, killed Salgado over a few dollars in the cash register.

Connecticut has some of the toughest gun laws in the country - and still, bullets find their mark in Greater New Haven. Multiple bullets found Tyriek Keyes Sunday during a shooting on Bassett Street.He died Thursday at Yale New Haven Hospital.He was only 14 years old. That bears repeating: He was only 14 years old.

NEW HAVEN >> With the first two phasesof Tweed New Haven Regional Airport's

NEW HAVEN >> Connecticut's high levels of average educational attainment compared to the rest of the nation isn't a coincidence, argue officials with the policy advocacy group Connecticut Voices For Children, but because of financial investment in educational programs.To slash or shutter early childhood care and preschool programs in pursuit of savings is a myopic strategy that will cost the state later down the road, said Connecticut Voices for Children Executive Director Ellen Shemitz in a statement.

WEST HAVEN >> A team of students from the Engineering and Science University Magnet School might trade a pile of dirt for $100,000 later this month after taking first place in their age division in a international STEM innovation competition.Students at ESUMS collaborated this year on an urban composting machine they call

NEW HAVEN >> Nury Chavarria, who was supposed to be deported today to Guatemala, has taken sanctuary in a city church.Pastor Hector Otero of Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal in Fair Haven has opened his facility for Chavarria, who was scheduled to depart from the Newark Airport this evening, leaving behind her four U.

NEW HAVEN >> Andover Newton Theological School, founded in 1807 as the first theological school in the United States, and Yale Divinity School signed a formal affiliation agreement today, completing

NEW HAVEN >> Mayor Toni Harp announced Thursday that free Wi-Fi is now available to the public on the city Green.The city partnered with Spot On Networks, a New Haven-based wireless internet service provider, a year ago to launch this new amenity for visitors.