NEW HAVEN >> They have a plan.Just in time for a vote next week, there was consensus Wednesday on a way to increase participation in democracy and use of the downtown library with little loss of parking revenue.A working group on parking and transit took up the request by seven alders led by Alder Jeanette Morrison, D-22, to provide free parking from 6 to 9 p.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> After publicizing their hangover supplement this spring shortly before graduating from Yale University, Liam McClintock and Margaret Morse came face to face with their first real-world business lesson.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
It was back in the Vietnam era at a packed Yale Bowl, Bulldogs vs. the (then) Dartmouth Indians. The speed and size of the players was not what it is today, but if the physicality was a bit less lethal, the rules (or lack thereof) were more so.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
HARTFORD >> Insurance companies and Connecticut officials are watching Republican President Donald Trump's Twitter feed for any indication that he will end Obamacare subsidies to insurers participating in the exchanges.After repeal efforts failed, Trump's party seems to be torn about whether to help destroy the Affordable Care Act's individual marketplace by eliminating the cost-sharing reductions that go to insurance companies to help them offset the premium payments for lower income individuals.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> For many students, the thought of working in a group is a stomach-churning experience. But in the Southern Connecticut State University summer course Fundamentals of Social Communication, it's enriching in a way a textbook could not provide.Through a partnership between SCSU and
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareState health officials have fined a Norwalk residential care home $1,000 and ordered it to hire an independent consultant after uncovering safety violations there earlier this year. Carlson Place was ordered to hire a consultant within four weeks of the consent order, which was signed June 26 by state
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBRIDGEPORT >> Police rescued three young children from a roach-infested apartment on Saturday.Five people, including the children's mother, were arrested.On Saturday, police said they responded to a Kossuth Street apartment on a complaint that the children, a 1-year-old girl, a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, were being mistreated.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBRANFORD >> A group of New Haven teens from the New Haven Police Department's Police Athletic League program spent Monday fishing and hiking at Lake Saltonstall."We would love to get as many kids who don't get these kinds of opportunities out here," said Kate Powell, a member of the South Central Connection Regional Water Authority recreation team.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> The city said its renovation of Fort Nathan Hale Park pier is on schedule, with construction on the popular fishing spot likely to start in August. City Engineer Giovanni Zinn said Monday that Terry Contracting was the lowest bidder for the project.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Prospect >> A New Haven man has been charged with criminal possession of a firearm after police say he drove his car while under the influence and lost control of his car.Derrick Nelson, 45, of 5th Street, New Haven, was arrested early Saturday morning on Scott Road in Prospect.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
NEW HAVEN >> Running and beer: It's a satisfying combination, within limits.The national running-and-beer series Craft Brew Races returns to New Haven Saturday at Edgewood Park, consisting of a 5K run followed by a beer festival featuring local and regional breweries among 45 pouring samples.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> Former University of New Haven President Lawrence DeNardis, while standing before about 3,000 people in Liverpool Cathedral receiving an honorary fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University last month, said he was thinking of his friendship of 35 years."It was one of the most exciting things I've been a part of in a life where I've been able to enjoy a number of different high points," said DeNardis, also a former member of the U.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> A New Haven man was charged with possession of a weapon on school property after police chased him when he fled a U-Haul truck on Ella T.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
NEW YORK (AP) >> Police in New York City say the man wanted for stealing a rare tortoise from an environmental center has turned himself in.The Daily News reports a 36-year-old Queens man surrendered to police Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The latest SAT results show modest improvement in Fairfield County and across the state, although urban school systems such as Bridgeport and New Haven continue to lag behind.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> After preparing the stage for this year's edition of a youth basketball tournament, the city went looking for its star performer.They didn't have to look too far.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
NEW HAVEN >> A Middletown woman who was originally charged with murder in the death of a man at the Branford Motel pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced charge of first-degree manslaughter and has agreed to serve 25 years in prison.Lashanda Gregory, 30, also pleaded guilty to third-degree robbery for stealing the victim's money and cellphone.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA former New Haven woman is accused of fraudulently collecting almost $16,000 in Unemployment Compensation benefits when she was living in New Haven, according to a release from the state Division of Criminal Justice.Robyn N.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn, wants to ensure that vehicles with recalled or unsafe parts are repaired before they are sold or leased.Blumenthal recently introduced the Used Car Safety Recall Repair Act that requires used car dealers to repair any outstanding safety recalls in used automobiles prior to selling or leasing them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has identified the Milford man who died following a boating accident Saturday.Joseph Regan, 43, from Milford, died after being ejected from the boat he was driving in New Haven Harbor after it hit an object, DEEP said in a press release.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA statewide undocumented youth advocacy group will hold meetings next week focused on informing the public on an Obama-era immigrant deferment program primarily used by young people that could be removed by the Trump administration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
NEW HAVEN >> Two city men are in custody after police officers approached an idling car on Exchange Street Tuesday night and allegedly found a bag containing a mixture of cocaine, fentanyl and PCP in the vehicle.Johnny Serrano, 29, of Maltby Place, and Luiz Ortiz, 28, of West Street, were both charged with possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance within 1,500 feet of a school, possession with intent to sell, possession with intent to sell within 1,500 feet of a school, according to police.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> A 25-year-old city man was arrested after fleeing police Monday night after attempting to break into a home on Dewitt Street, police said Wednesday.Davon Rakil Hailey, of Oak Ridge Drive, is charged with second-degree burglary, eight counts of third-degree trespassing, stalking, and interfering with an officer, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> Uncertainty in Washington is causing uncertainty with many elected officials in Connecticut who are trying to determine the best course to shore up programs and funding amid potential federal budget cuts.U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
NEW HAVEN >> This city's commemoration of the annual National Night Out Tuesday in Edgewood Park carried a special meaning for a community mourning the recent shooting death of one of their own and reeling over other shooting victims that followed.The friends of Tyriek Keyes, 14, were among those who gathered in the park on a beautiful summer's evening.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWILTON >> Growing up in Wilton, Bill Lucey spent most of his time around Long Island Sound. He caught flounder in Rowayton, fished for blue snappers in the Saugatuck River and dug for clams in Stamford Harbor.Those experiences sparked his career in biology and conservation, which has spanned 30 years and taken him across the nation and in Central America.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBRIDGEPORT >> The federal court system stalled his political career.Now Mayor Joe Ganim is appealing to a U.S. District court to help him to finally realize his goal of being elected governor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareTwice in July - at least - law-abiding Connecticut residents reported to federal immigration officials, as required, only to be slapped with electronic monitoring bracelets and told they had just weeks to buy one-way tickets to their native country and say goodbye to their families.The "crimes" that led to such harsh treatment of
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareNEW HAVEN >> For the eighth year, the Connecticut State Police is organizing a back to school supply drive, encouraging state residents to donate backpacks, notebooks, pencils, binders, and other supplies that students would need for the new school year.The supplies are distributed by various social service organizations to families that "don't necessarily have the resources to go out and purchase everything that's on a school supply list given to them by the school," Trooper First Class Kelly Grant said, a CSP spokesperson.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe fate of a politically divisive state employee union concession package could come down to the tie-breaking vote of Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, who has been keeping fellow Democrats guessing whether she will run for governor in her own right in 2018.
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