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Sharp Eyes On The News

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 14, 2006 11:22 am | Comments (1)

The Independent stopped by this summer school classroom to talk about online journalism, and found a roomful of savvy students thinking hard about bias, journalistic responsibility, and portrayals of race and gender in the news.

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Gone Dishin’ Around Town

by Gone Dishin' | Jul 14, 2006 10:43 am

The fourth floor of the NewAlliance building at 195 Church St. — aka “Gallery 195” — has come alive with the photographs of Harold Shapiro (at left) and painter Amanda Durant (at right).

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Cops, Kids Talk Guns

by Allan Appel | Jul 14, 2006 10:24 am | Comments (4)

“Last night, I had to watch a boy die of four gunshot wounds to the stomach. I suppose he thought he was tough, but it was terrible. He was screaming for his mother in agony while he died. I don’t want to have to have to stand over any of you guys.” So went an evening of blunt talk between cops like Jason Jackson (at right in photo) and Dixwell teens at the Stetson Library.

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The Greens Are Coming—Collards, Mustards, Okra

by Allan Appel | Jul 14, 2006 9:40 am | Comments (4)

The City Farmers’ Market Fair Haven opened at the north end of Quinnipiac River Park for the 2006 season with the traditional lettuce toss being performed by a ripe, organic tomato, aka 15th Ward Alderwoman Maria Reyes-Rivera.

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Lamont, Young Dems Sip ‘N’ Dip

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 14, 2006 9:08 am | Comments (3)

They poured into a downtown bar in cocktail skirts and suits for a chance to talk face-to-face with big-time Democrats. Some sipped bright martinis; some signed up for campaigns. This young debate team competitor (pictured at right) traded notes with Ned Lamont in the wake of the candidate’s primetime face-off with Connecticut’s junior, fist-swinging senator.

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The Mastermind & The Prospect

by Paul Bass | Jul 13, 2006 6:39 pm

Even swindlers consider some characters too untrustworthy. So testified the star witness in the New Haven Savings/NewAlliance white-collar crime trial in federal court. The witness (pictured outside federal court), the admitted mastermind of a $4.9 million get-rich-quick scam, told a yarn about a meeting at Geppi’s Restaurant that went sour and featured dialogue like this: “Once in a while a pit bull rips your leg off.”

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Smiles 2 Go

by Melinda Tuhus | Jul 13, 2006 5:35 pm

The Hospital of St. Raphael dental van parked outside the Columbus School in Fair Haven and drew patients like moths to a flame, though certainly with much happier consequences. Andres Chavez (pictured, in the chair) was just one of those who benefited, as the “Smiles 2 Go” van and its sponsor, People’s Bank, celebrated the program’s fifth anniversary.

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Teen Dies In Double Shooting

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 13, 2006 12:26 pm | Comments (1)

A double shooting in the City Point neighborhood took the life of an 18 year-old man and left another teen injured. Here are preliminary details, according to police.

Someone called police reporting “numerous” gunshots on 4th Street near Howard Avenue around 10:45 p.m. Police found two gunshot victims at the scene. A 19 year-old man was sent to St. Raphael’s Hospital, where he remained in critical but stable condition Thursday. The other was sent to Yale New-Haven Hospital, where he died soon after. His mother identified him as 18 year-old Domingo Rodriguez.

Police canvassed the area of a ballpark between Greenwich Avenue and the ET Grasso Boulevard, where assailants were thought to have fled. Detectives were still seeking help from witnesses and searching for evidence Thursday. “We believe there is more than one shooter,” said Detective Lt. Herman Badger Thursday, still working hard on the case.

Click here for a city press release.

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In Newhallville, police responded to reports of gunfire near 228 Newhall St. at 1:59 a.m. Thursday. A car and two homes had been pierced by bullets. An officer saw an Acura flying away from the scene, matching the description given by witnesses of a getaway car. The officer tried to pull the car over.

Two men who police believe were in the car were found on foot on West Ivy Street, having ditched the car nearby. Police arrested one of them on drug charges. The suspect was already on parole on gun charges, said police.

Police found a gun, apparently recently fired, lying on nearby West Hazel Street, but no one had been charged in the shooting as of midday Thursday.

Day of Reckoning Coming for Hospital-Caused Illnesses

by Melinda Tuhus | Jul 13, 2006 9:18 am

A new state law will require hospitals to report illnesses and deaths caused by hospital-induced infections, beginning in 2008. Think it’s not a problem? A 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine estimated 98,000 patients a year were dying in the U.S. due to medical errors, including infections — as many people as from AIDS, breast cancer and automobile accidents combined, and raising health care costs an additional $4.5 billion a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the hope of reducing those numbers, several states have since passed laws requiring hospitals to report such incidents. But before all that, Lowell Levin (pictured), a professor at the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, was on the case with a 1985 book he co-authored called Medicine on Trial.

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Bat-Wielding Marine Recruiter Under Investigation

by Melinda Tuhus | Jul 13, 2006 8:08 am | Comments (1)

The rain on Wednesday afternoon kept anti-war protesters from their promised weekly rendezvous outside the armed forces recruiting station on Orange Street (at left are protesters from last week’s rally), but the issue of attacks on their freedom of speech is still alive and reverberating up the Marines’ chain of command.

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