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The Do-Rag Question

by Melinda Tuhus | Jul 31, 2008 7:48 pm | Comments (38)

Donovan Lowndes wears a do-rag. Does that make him a drug dealer? A wannabe drug dealer? Or just a black teen who likes the style?

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4 Arrested In Bank Robbery

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 31, 2008 4:16 pm | Comments (2)

A car chase following an East Haven bank robbery came to a sputtering stop in Fair Haven, where four suspects were nabbed.

The incident started at 10:17 a.m. at the People’s Bank inside the Stop & Shop store at 370 Hemingway Ave. in East Haven. Here’s what happened, according to Lieutenant Joseph Slane of the East Haven police:

A lone man walked into the bank. He went up to the teller and implied he had a gun. The teller turned over $1,600. The suspect was seen fleeing in a green minivan.

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Shartenberg Shrinks

by Paul Bass | Jul 31, 2008 1:48 pm | Comments (3)

New Haven’s fledgling new downtown tower just shrank to 26 stories — or 31, depending on how you’re counting.

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Looney: A Check’s Waiting For you

by Staff | Jul 31, 2008 1:00 pm

Marty Looney has a message for people in New Haven, especially seniors: The government $300 for you, and you’re not taking it.

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State Rep Hopefuls Differ On Schools

by Sarah Vanderbilt | Jul 31, 2008 12:35 pm | Comments (16)

Are public schools falling down on the job, or getting a “bad rap”?

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A Tale Of 2 Immigrants—& 2 Cellphones

by Thomas MacMillan | Jul 31, 2008 12:01 pm

Muhammed Ugurlu is building a successful Fair Haven cellphone business by creating personal connections with other local immigrants. He spent one morning this week helping out Amir Shog, whose face was still swollen from getting jumped the night before.

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Spokeswoman Bids Adieu

by Melinda Tuhus | Jul 31, 2008 9:46 am

Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo, who was Mayor John DeStefano’s press spokeswoman for his first two terms in office then spent a decade promoting good news about New Haven schools, was feted Wednesday night at a retirement party. (She’s shown on the right in photo with her sister, Patricia Sullivan, who came down from Boston to celebrate.)

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Teen Arrested

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 31, 2008 8:33 am | Comments (1)

Officers D. Rivera and J. Miranda spotted a group of people creating a “breach of peace” at Orchard and Elm Streets at about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. A group of them left on bicycles. As cops approached one of the bikers, a 17-year-old from County Street, he began to flee on foot, according to police. The cops chased him on foot into the rear of 309 Dixwell Ave. Police say they found a loaded Smith and Wesson gun near where the suspect was detained. They arrested him on gun charges.

And a man walked into police headquarters at 3:55 a.m. Thursday to report that he had been mugged. He said he had been walking in the area of Edgewood and Ella Grasso Blvd when he was approached by an unknown man. The mugger, who appeared to be in his late teens, simulated having a weapon. The victim was robbed of a gold chain, gold cross and wedding band.

Charter Oak Staggers Toward Start

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 31, 2008 8:18 am

Two days before liftoff, a grand total of 24 people and just one hospital have signed up for Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s plan to insure some of Connecticut’s hundreds of thousands of adults without health coverage. Full story here.

Unlike Quinell, Norman Was Reached

by Allan Appel | Jul 31, 2008 7:06 am | Comments (22)

A year ago Norman Boone was spending his time on the streets “beefin’” — stirring up fights with kids who wandered into his Dixwell/ “Tribe” territory. Today, he’s learning painting in a job training program, is enrolled in adult ed for his GED, and, to use his phrase, “I’m on the right road and am going to keep going.”

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