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Murder Suspect Murdered

by Staff | Aug 31, 2006 4:14 pm

Yet another memorial has popped up on a New Haven sidewalk: This time on Frank Street in the Hill, where an 18 year-old was shot in the head. The city is wrestling to get on top of four shootings, all within two hours of each other Wednesday night. The police were ready to arrest “Little Larry” for a murder Thursday morning, but they were too late. He was shot to death hours earlier. Click here to read about the warrant pending for his arrest. Click here to read about the neighborhood reaction to the shooting.

The Scene On Frank Street

by Melissa Bailey | Aug 31, 2006 4:04 pm | Comments (3)

Yet another memorial has popped up on a New Haven sidewalk: This time on Frank Street in the Hill, where an 18 year-old was shot in the head. The city is wrestling to get on top of four shootings, all within two hours of each other Wednesday night. Remarked Frank Street neighbor Louis Nieves (pictured): “All this killing and stuff, it could be stopped with the curfew.”

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Warrant Ready—But Too Late

by Paul Bass | Aug 31, 2006 3:43 pm

Police were preparing to arrest a man known as “Little Larry” for murder Thursday morning. They were hours too late.

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City Lawyer Sent to Jail After Stealing $2M+

by Melissa Bailey | Aug 31, 2006 3:01 pm

“Take him downstairs! He gets treated no different than any other defendant!” barked State Superior Court Judge Richard A Damiani (pictured), sending a former New Haven attorney to prison for seven years for robbing his clients, including an elderly woman, of over $2 million. John H. Peck, Jr., from a family of local attorneys, accepted the sentence Thursday after pleading guilty to first-degree larceny and giving up his license to practice law.

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Mild-Mannered Reporter Jumps Newsrooms

by Paul Bass | Aug 31, 2006 11:21 am | Comments (5)

Andy Bromage, a 29 year-old New Haven Register reporter known for his smart, fair, in-depth coverage of City Hall and public housing, is moving to the weekly New Haven Advocate on Sept. 11 (!) to direct the paper’s news coverage. (Bromage doesn’t normally wear a yarmulke. He donned one for this photo to impersonate another reporter in town who looks like him; the two are often mistaken for each other.) Bromage vowed “to beat the pants off the New Haven Independent and the New Haven Register on every major story affecting New Haven readers.” Meanwhile, the Advocate’s management has also promoted Tom Gogola, to the top editor post at the company’s Bridgeport-based sister edition, the Fairfield County Weekly.

Lamont Stares Down The Doughnut Hole

by Christine Stuart | Aug 31, 2006 9:56 am | Comments (1)

U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont heard concerns from Hartford seniors Wednesday about the implications of Medicare Part D and the doughnut hole it leaves as of Sept. 22.

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City Finds Developer For Brewery

by Melissa Bailey | Aug 31, 2006 8:34 am | Comments (3)

The former New Haven Brewery, a century-old Grand Avenue landmark with arched windows and white painted brick, now sits vacant on overgrown polluted land. After four years of searching, the city has finally found a developer (including a former Democratic town chairman) to take the old warehouse — and all its contaminants — off the city’s hands.

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Cop Of The Week

by Paul Bass | Aug 30, 2006 12:59 pm | Comments (3)

Politicians and policy-makers and activists have been trying to figure out how to get guns off the streets of New Haven. Elvin Rivera went ahead and did it, and he has some thoughts about how to do more of it.

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Speakers Target a Criminal Injustice System

by Melinda Tuhus | Aug 30, 2006 8:45 am | Comments (10)

Rodney Lewis (pictured) spent almost four years in a Connecticut prison, most of it in maximum security. At a packed public hearing on prison reform Tuesday night in the City’s Hall’s aldermanic chambers, he said, “Every time they put the cuffs and chains on me, I would lose a piece of myself, of my dignity.” And that wasn’t the worst part.

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Youth Curfew Proposed

by Melissa Bailey | Aug 30, 2006 8:43 am | Comments (39)

A sign like this one may soon be hanging on New Haven streets. Seeking solutions to teen violence, aldermen have submitted a proposal for a youth curfew.

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