New Haven Independent

Firefighters Save 3 Dogs, 1 Cat

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:39 GMT

When a dryer ignited in a Hill neighborhood basement Wednesday morning, firefighters searched through the smoke to find a missing cat and three dogs.

Noodles Again For Senator On Food-Stamp Diet

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:53 GMT

Chris Murphy voted Tuesday to try to keep the average food stamp recipient receiving $4.80 a day—then, stomach growling, he went home for a second straight supper of Ramen noodles.

Shake, Shake, Shake

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:43 GMT

If you like your ‘70s-era disco-funk performed al fresco, that’s the way—uh-huh, uh-huh—you’ll enjoy KC & The Sunshine Band this summer.

Yale Flees Newhallville After Prof’s Mugging

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:01 GMT

After an 83-year-old architecture professor was attacked at the Lilac Street building site of a Yale-designed house, the university plans to pull out the newly installed foundation—and has decided it’s just too dangerous to build a home in Newhallville.

New State Policy Boosts Q River Building Project

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:00 GMT

Erika Morrison’s sons Gabe, Seth, and Jude will reluctantly give up some nifty forts they have built over the years at secret locations in the narrow strip of woods between Q Avenue and the Q River.

Cop Magnet 2.0

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:26 GMT

Coming soon to a substation near you: a magnet for your fridge with quick information about how to reach the cops.

“We Have To Start Thinking Differently”

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:39 GMT

This story originally appeared in Spanish in La Voz Hispana.

Get Ready To Call Him “Banker DeStefano”

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00 GMT

(Updated 5:34 p.m.) After 20 years running City Hall, John DeStefano plans to move into an office a mile west on Whalley Avenue—to help run a community development bank he brought into existence.

Gas Leak Forces Evacuation

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:55 GMT

(Updated) Officials are investigating a gas leak that forced a 96-year-old woman out of her home Tuesday morning.

Paint And Pen Pals

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:16 GMT

“Similar, But Different” is the way Edgewood School second-grade teacher Kim Rogers has described a unique artistic and social collaboration between her class and art students of Tina Menchetti at Chapel Haven, a private non-profit transitioning program serving young adults on the autism spectrum and those with social and developmental disabilities.