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Extra-Duty Police Tussle Costs City $25K

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 30, 2009 12:45 pm | Comments (72)

Jesse Morrell came to New Haven to warn club-goers, fornicators and Darwinists about Judgment Day. After a run-in with city cops, he came away with a more earthly judgment.

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Alleged Abuser Goes Courtroom-Hopping

by allison schwartz | Jul 30, 2009 11:35 am | Comments (1)

Clinton had appointments in two courtrooms at once — one to see if a jury finds him guilty of sexual assault, another to answer a brand-new set of violence-related charges.

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Grand Merchants Seek “Village” Look

by Allan Appel | Jul 30, 2009 8:50 am | Comments (6)

One big-box store is enough, Grand Avenue neighbors agreed.

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Abdussabur On Gates: Arrest Wasn’t Racial

by Thomas MacMillan | Jul 30, 2009 7:28 am | Comments (42)

Sixteen students from eight countries heard an unexpected verdict from a New Haven cop on the controversy surrounding the recent arrest of leading black intellectual Henry Louis Gates.

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Blumenthal: Get The “Yuck” Out Of The Sound

by marcia chambers | Jul 29, 2009 6:58 pm

“Beach closings are a sign of a public health crisis that needs to be addressed,” the attorney general said, calling for stimulus money to go toward fixing sewers. Full story here.

“The Right Time To Be With The One You Love”

by Paul Bass | Jul 29, 2009 5:35 pm | Comments (1)

That “right time” is every day, according to “blues, soul and rock and roll” singer Greg Sherrod. Sherrod’s band played the lunchtime Blues, Berries & Jam concert on the Green Wednesday. That day, at least, indeed felt like the right time. It was the right time for a lead guitar solo too. Click on the play arrow for a taste.

Woman Stabbed In Fight

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 29, 2009 4:38 pm

A 21-year-old Hamden woman suffered a serious injury Tuesday night when she was stabbed in the head during a fight in the Dixwell neighborhood.

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Whipped Cream Leads To Closed Doors

by Paul Bass | Jul 29, 2009 3:31 pm | Comments (2)

Two years to the day that Toad’s Place reopened from a state shutdown order, the York Street nightclub must close its doors again.

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Schools Tout Reading Gains

by Allan Appel and Melissa Bailey | Jul 29, 2009 3:10 pm | Comments (22)

(Updated: 5:56 p.m.) Fair Haven School’s principal helped steer students toward “unprecedented” gains in reading, as New Haven’s system struggles to close the achievement gap.

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Cops, Neighbors Meet

by Melinda Tuhus | Jul 29, 2009 10:33 am | Comments (6)

Lamont Moye (pictured with his daughter, Iyana) asked Newhallville’s new district manager if he was having any luck ridding the streets of illegal dirt bikes, for which the neighborhood is infamous. “Have you seen any?” the neighborhood’s top cop asked him.

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