Breaking News | December 29, 2009
Strong Black Women Mentor Their Younger Selves
by Melinda Tuhus | December 29, 2009 9:24 AM | Permalink
Dymin Ellis (pictured) was wearing half a dozen strong black women role models on her T-shirt. At an all-day conference on Monday, she met that many more in person.
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Breaking News | August 3, 2009
Mr. Mailbox & Co. Stage a "Write-In"
by Allan Appel | August 3, 2009 7:20 AM | Permalink
Rachel Holmes loves old-fashioned letters and postcards. She got a chance to support the carriers who deliver them as a dozen union members, dressed up in Hawaiian shirts, leis, and grass skirts, braved a near-tornado to promote letter and postcard writing.
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Breaking News | April 2, 2009
Winners Selected in Couture New Haven Contest
by Ben Johnson | April 2, 2009 10:34 AM | Permalink
After a contest that drew more than twice the expected number of applicants, Yale University Properties marketing and promotions coordinator Brittany Lipsett said the new face of "Couture New Haven" would be 23-year-old North Haven resident Marie-Lynn Piscitelli (pictured, left).
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Breaking News | December 15, 2008
Power Outage Hits City
by Paul Bass | December 15, 2008 12:35 PM | Permalink
(Updated: 3:23 p.m.) Some 3,100 customers lost power in New Haven Monday after an accident involving a United Illuminating (UI) employee.
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Breaking News | September 13, 2008
"Now Cracks a Noble Heart"
by Allan Appel | September 13, 2008 9:14 PM | Permalink
More than 1,000 officers in a long blue line saluted as the casket of fallen Sgt. Dario Aponte was carried into St. Michael's Ukrainian Church for his funeral mass.
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Breaking News | September 12, 2008
Hundreds Flee Omni Fire
by Paul Bass | September 12, 2008 9:51 AM | Permalink
Fire Lt. Herschel Wadley (at left) thought he was bringing his crew to another middle-of-the-night false alarm. Instead they arrived to find close to 300 visitors -- including Korean filmmaker Eunjae Lee (top photo) and economists from around the country -- streaming groggily out of the Omni Hotel.
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Breaking News | August 7, 2008
"Democracy Victory" At VA
by Leonard J. Honeyman | August 7, 2008 5:00 PM | Permalink
There was peace, and voter registration, at the veterans hospital Thursday, thanks to an agreement between state officials and the head of the local facility.
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Breaking News | June 26, 2008
Gun Ownership Right Affirmed
by Patricia Dillon | June 26, 2008 4:13 PM | Permalink
In an historic 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court Thursday struck down Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns in D.C. v. Heller, 07-290, and ruled that the Second Amendment contains the right of an individual to possess firearms. .
(Click here for a summary of the D.C. law.)
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Breaking News | June 11, 2008
The Lights Are Back On
by Staff | June 11, 2008 2:51 PM | Permalink
The juice was back by 1:20 p.m. in almost all of the 3,300 New Haven homes that lost power overnight, according to United Illuminating.
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Breaking News | May 21, 2008
Last-Minute Math Disputed
by Paul Bass | May 21, 2008 4:15 PM | Permalink
New Haven appealed to the governor to sign a health-care pooling bill -- and disregard an HMO's version of New Math.
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Breaking News | April 17, 2008
Bleach Factory Evacuated
by Melissa Bailey | April 17, 2008 12:20 PM | Permalink
(Updated: 12:49 p.m.) Thirteen to 15 people have been taken to the hospital for respiratory problems after a leak of chlorine gas at H. Krevit & Co. on Welton Street near the Hamden border.
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Breaking News | February 5, 2008
Library Parties On
by Allan Appel | February 5, 2008 11:19 PM | Permalink
In her commedia dell'arte mask, Margaret Watley was in fine Mardi Gras form as she attended the ninth annual Fat Tuesday-themed party to benefit the New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) in its 121st year.
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Breaking News | February 5, 2008
Rookie Rodriguez Bats for Hall of Famer
by Allan Appel | February 5, 2008 12:24 PM | Permalink
The rookie alderman from the 15th Ward in Fair Haven, Joey Rodriguez, went to bat at Monday night's BOA meeting on behalf of Roberto Clemente, the great baseball player, who is a role model for many local Latinos.
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Breaking News | February 4, 2008
Lauri Roman Cleans Her Office
by Paul Bass | February 4, 2008 1:30 PM | Permalink
In five minutes! A presidential candidate was coming.
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Breaking News | January 17, 2008
No Noose Is Good News
by Melissa Bailey | January 17, 2008 3:21 PM | Permalink
In the wake of a disturbing rash of incidents involving nooses across the state, New Haven's NAACP and Turner Construction vowed zero tolerance for hate crimes in New Haven.
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Breaking News | January 10, 2008
Rell Pressed On Tobacco $$$
by Paul Bass | January 10, 2008 7:46 AM | Permalink
New Haven's Rosa DeLauro (pictured) and the rest of Connecticut's D.C. delegation want answers from the governor about where all that tobacco settlement money -- $1 billion and counting -- is going. Full story here.
Breaking News | January 7, 2008
Long Wharf Memorials Cleaned, But . . .
by Allan Appel | January 7, 2008 1:28 AM | Permalink
The Vietnam Memorial and others in Long Wharf Park, recently defaced with gang graffiti, were cleaned by the city Sunday morning. Becky Sanchez, peeking out from her business, might have had a bird's-eye view. For three months now she's been the owner and operator of the La Pinchera Coamena food truck, which is parked more or less parallel to the great V that faces toward Long Island Sound and the Atlantic in the direction of Vietnam.
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Breaking News | January 5, 2008
Vietnam Memorial Defaced Again
by Paul Bass | January 5, 2008 8:54 PM | Permalink
The city is considering installing security cameras on Long Wharf after vandals defaced the Vietnam veterans memorial for the second time in a little more than a week.
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Breaking News | December 12, 2007
Fire Damage Totals $10M
by Melissa Bailey | December 12, 2007 9:58 AM | Permalink
(Updated: 5:32 p.m.) A fire that ripped through a downtown block Wednesday morning has destroyed at least six businesses and incurred $10 million in damages, city officials say.
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Breaking News | July 5, 2007
July 4 Brings Anti-War Message From CT to DC
by Melinda Tuhus | July 5, 2007 9:06 AM | Permalink
As New Haveners joined a patriotic anti-war protest at an out-of-town Independence Day "boombox" parade, a Connecticut Congressman joining the march said that summer hearings will keep the pressure on the White House to bring troops home from Iraq.
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