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Mom’s Persistence Has Police Refocused On Daughter’s Hit-And-Run
by Ethan Fry | May 16, 2012 8:51 pm
Saying he is “not at all happy with the initial investigation,” Ansonia Police Chief Kevin Hale said his department has relaunched a probe into a...more »
Ansonia Soccer Registration
by STAFF | May 16, 2012 4:35 pm
The Ansonia Soccer Club announces registration sessions for the Fall 2012 season on June 4 and June 7 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Ansonia Armory.
Gov. Malloy Signs War Memorial Bill Into Law
by STAFF | May 16, 2012 3:36 pm
CTNewsJunkie File PhotoGov. Dannel Malloy this week signed into law a bill that enhances penalties against people who vandalize war memorials.

The bill, “An Act...

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Clark Drops Bid, Endorses Roraback
May 16, 2012 6:25 pm
FARMINGTON—Two days before the Republican convention, the former FBI agent and Farmington Town Council President Mike Clark officially ended his...more »
Minimum Wage, Jobs Bill Won’t Stay Dead
May 16, 2012 4:16 pm
Senate Democrats’ jobs package and a bill to raise the minimum wage were among the bills that dropped dead last week at midnight. But expect them...more »
Group Ups The Ante In Education Lawsuit With High- Powered Law Firm
May 16, 2012 12:50 pm
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy may have signed what supporters are calling a sweeping education reform bill Tuesday, but its 185-pages don’t begin to touch...more »

Obituaries »

Theodus Staggers

posted: May 15, 2012 8:36 am

Theodus Staggers passed away on April 20, 2012:

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MaryAnn Ince, 80

posted: May 11, 2012 8:12 am

MaryAnn Ince of New Haven passed away on Sunday May 6th 2012.

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Gary Rogers, 49

posted: May 10, 2012 2:03 pm

Gary Rogers, 49 of New Haven, CT passed away May 6, 2012.

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Cutler’s Closing Doors

Cutlers.com Image Family’s iconic recorded music emporium “retiring” after 64 years on Broadway. Staff reports.

Today’s Debates

Welcome Wagon? ... Wash ... Walls ... Wet ... Winstanley Way ...

Not Dead Yet

Jobs, min. wage bills crawl back from Capitol grave. Hugh McQuaid reports.

Homicide Victim & Friends
Drove To Town To Party

Shot in car; 2nd 20-year-old slain in 11 hours. Paul Bass reports.

Mother Goose Flattened

Rte. 67. Ethan Fry reports.

How Long Have We Been Eating Nanoparticles?

Scientific Reports Photo Better check that hamburger bun. Gwyneth K. Shaw reports.

Genocide Brought Home

Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez Photo Rwandan witness challenges St. Martin’s students on bullying. Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez reports.

Today’s Debates

Lion’s Den ... Hot Spot ... Desmond ...

Foe Neighbor Takes
On Grocer's Plan

Thomas MacMillan Photo Neighboring merchant complains to zoners about parking lot access in Edge of the Woods expansion. Thomas MacMillan reports.

Ed Bill Signed

Statewide foes put aside differences for a day. Christine Stuart reports.

Confessed Pit Bull-Killer Greeted With Protests

Marcia Chambers Photo At court. marcia chambers reports.

Bysiewicz On Ballot

Files to face Murphy in Dem Senate primary (filing). Click here & above for circa 2009 pronunciation guide.

Theodus Staggers

Family thanks community for support:  obit.

Comments Of The Day

• Mamis on parking: “I’m not going to let a few extra bucks keep me from the best pizza in the world.”
• Harris reveals 1920s linen map.

Crash Injures Motorcyclist

Upper Whalley. Staff reports.

Today’s Debates

Meters ... Vrooomm! ... Beach ... Bucket List ... Deck ... Domestic ... Yarn ... ArtWalk ...

Kind Of Neutral, For Now

In city visit, Lieberman praises, but doesn’t yet endorse, his pal Chris Shays. Paul Bass reports.

50 People In Bar Saw Nothing?

Cops skeptical in Derby homicide probe. Eugene Driscoll reports.

4 Months & $500K Later ...

... check out our new tourism logo. Christine Stuart reports.

Silicon Forest Offers Clues

Gwyneth K. Shaw Photo For creating smart jobs. Gwyneth K. Shaw reports.

Preschool 411

Upcoming forum on preschool programs for 3-yr.-olds transitioning to public schools. Details here.

11,000 Get Last Checks

New unemployment formula kicks in. Christine Stuart reports.

Siamese Sombrero Spotted

Ariela Martin Photo Along with head-borne album covers & spatulas ... Ariela Martin reports.

Cell Service Sought

In Short Beach. Hearing/ balloon launch looms. Diana Stricker reports.

Hot Wheels, Reborn Doors

Westville’s ArtWalk hits its stride in its 15th year. David Sepulveda reports.

Friday? Must Be Time For A Scam

by Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez | May 16, 2012 5:05 pm | Comments (1)

Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez Photo “Tyrell Jenkins” rolled into town in a car with New York plates. He strolled into Pete Persano’s AT&T Wireless Store on Chapel and asked for two 64 GB IPads worth over $300 each. He pulled out a First United credit card—and Persano smelled a scam.

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Duck Pond Reborn

by Thomas MacMillan | May 16, 2012 2:06 pm | Comments (4)

Thomas MacMillan Photos After a $300,000 overhaul, a revamped Edgewood Park duck pond is ready to welcome migrating terns, herons, egrets, alewives—and one lucky turtle.

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#71569 Speaks. Cross Listens

by Allan Appel | May 16, 2012 10:00 am | Comments (4)

Allan Appel Photo Jamilett Hernandez wanted proof that the Holocaust actually happened. She wanted to see a tattooed Jewish arm.

Number 71569 obliged.

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School Board Ponders How To Involve Public

by Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez | May 15, 2012 5:07 pm | Comments (11)

Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez Photo Move meetings to a central location with better parking. Make the boardroom’s layout less intimidating. Jettison Robert’s Rules of Order. Schedule “public participation on matters of general concern” before the long superintendent’s report.

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Man Shot Dead Outside Stop & Shop Plaza

by Thomas MacMillan | May 15, 2012 1:22 pm | Comments (7)

Thomas MacMillan Photo A young man was killed Tuesday afternoon outside a “hot spot” laundromat.

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So Long Playground, Hello Home

by Thomas MacMillan | May 15, 2012 10:30 am | Comments (4)

Thomas MacMillan Photos As workers lowered the first walls of a new Yale-designed house into place at the corner of Newhall and Starr streets, neighbors mourned the loss of a neighborhood basketball court, and began working to create a new one.

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Mayor Enters New Urbanist Lion’s Den

by Paul Bass | May 14, 2012 5:42 pm | Comments (24)

It fills in a failed urban renewal highway. Does that make it “new urbanism”?

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Hitting The Beach? It May Cost You

by Thomas MacMillan | May 14, 2012 2:05 pm | Comments (24)

Allan Appel Photo Thomas MacMillan Photo For the first time in recent memory, New Haveners driving into Lighthouse Park this summer may have to pay for the privilege. If Jeanette Morrison gets her way, the entrance fee will be less than it otherwise might have.

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This Deck Was Legit. Now It’s Not

by Thomas MacMillan | May 14, 2012 9:47 am | Comments (12)

Thomas MacMillan Photo With neighbors up in arms about late-night noise and Cinco de Mayo drink specials, the city’s zoning board decided a long-time social club has to stop using its new outdoor deck—even though it had been built with city permission.

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Mother’s Day Fire Rescue

by Paul Bass | May 13, 2012 4:54 pm | Comments (2)

Two teens helped two women out of their homes as flames leapt from an Orchard Street house on Mother’s Day, moments after one of the women’s relatives had left a 73rd birthday party in her honor.

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Huge rock crashed into English Drive Pedestrian Trail
May 16, 2012 9:04 pm
Address: English Dr New Haven, CT
Rating: 1

A very sizable boulder fell off the side of East Rock and smack into the middle of the pedestrian...

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Grass cutting and tree care along the canal
May 16, 2012 7:18 pm
Address: 395 Winchester Ave New Haven, CT
Rating: 1

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