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Divers Back In River

by Staff | May 19, 2012 10:00 pm

The police dive team was back in the West River Saturday morning, this time to retrieve a stolen Nissan Altima.

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Retaliate? Or Bury Tyrell?

by Paul Bass | May 18, 2012 2:32 pm | Comments (3)

Restless friends of a slain New Haven man had a choice presented to them: Keep the killing going. Or raise the money for a funeral.

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Register Pitches The Hill On Retail

by Paul Bass | May 18, 2012 11:31 am | Comments (27)

You won’t get a factory. You might get a supermarket.

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Victim’s Dad: Crips Had “Grip” In Their Sights

by Paul Bass | May 17, 2012 8:07 am | Comments (9)

The gun didn’t fire the first time a would-be Crip pulled the trigger on Tyrell Trimble. The second time, Trimble lost his life.

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Genocide Brought Home

by Nicolás Medina Mora Pérez | May 16, 2012 8:25 am | Comments (1)

After hearing a firsthand account of the Rwandan massacre, a city seventh-grader said that she wants to travel the world to fight genocide anywhere it happens. She and her classmates also learned that they can also stay here and fight hatred at home.

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Drug Bust On Frank Street Called Unrelated To Homicide

by Staff | May 6, 2012 11:22 am | Comments (6)

Two days after a homicide in the Hill neighborhood, police swarmed to the scene Sunday morning to make an arrest—but not an arrest related to the murder.

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Amistad House Needs A Hand

by Allan Appel | May 4, 2012 12:03 pm

A house that feeds and puts a roof over the heads of the poor is sprouting disintegrating shingles—and needs a new roof itself.

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Yale’s Nursing School Pulling Up Stakes

by Melissa Bailey | May 3, 2012 1:56 pm | Comments (8)

As Yale prepares to vacate the former Lee High School, the city’s economic development chief sees an opportunity to re-envision a “disconnected” building for a more walkable medical district that connects to Union Station.

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Trouble-Making Earns Award, Not Rebukes

by Paul Bass | Apr 30, 2012 4:05 pm | Comments (8)

Bonita Grubbs got a surprise when she Googled herself. She discovered that she has “caused a lot of trouble.”

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Green to Grace Grasso

by Allan Appel | Apr 27, 2012 11:15 am | Comments (1)

First they had to dig out a dozen stubborn hunks of asphalt and backfill from the Boulevard. Then a green team successfully planted two honey locusts, two flowering cherries, and a Juneberry—trees #1496 to 1500 in the ongoing campaign to bring 5,000 new “public” trees to the Elm City.

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