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Police brass, detectives at press conference announcing murder arrests.
Ana Gonzalez allegedly walked into the TJ Maxx on Frontage Road in East Haven just after 4:30 p.m. on July 19, 2024 – hours after Miguel Rivera’s body was pulled from Hemingway Creek on the east side of New Haven.
She walked out of TJ Maxx with a receipt — which would eventually lead detectives to arrest her for a gruesome murder.
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The daughter of a woman arrested by ICE addresses Wednesday's rally, with teachers union President Leslie Blatteau and national immigrant rights organizer Kica Matos.
“The pain you’re putting families through — I wish you would consider what you’re doing to our family,” the daughter, Monse, urged federal agents in a speech at the rally, which took place in the plaza outside the federal office building on Court Street.
The New Haven protest coincided with similar actions in cities around the country against the Trump administration’s deportation policies.
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Jun 11, 2025 4:02 pm
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Family members Elizabeth Rivera, Migdalia Nuzzo, and Michael Nuzzo at Wednesday's press conference.
Nearly a year after Miguel Rivera was found dead in a New Haven stream, police announced they have arrested two suspects and charged them both with murder.
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Jun 9, 2025 3:06 pm
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A passerby on Friday claimed to see people throwing trash out of the building's broken windows.
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The building is covered with graffiti and surrounded by trash.
The building's internal courtyard is completely overgrown.
The potential revitalization of the dilapidated clock factory on Hamilton Street has been delayed once again, as a state judge has granted the property’s owner more time to clean up environmental contaminants and subordinate debt before selling the complex to the housing authority.
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Jun 6, 2025 4:31 pm
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YPD strike on the horizon?
The Yale police union has voted 51 – 0 to authorize a strike — as contract negotiations have hit an impasse over pay, drug testing, disability benefits, and timeframes for civilian complaints.
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Yevdokia Eisenmann and Sophie Yu field questions from their judging panel.
Judging panel Kelly Meza, Yoselin Perez, Audrey Zelezniak Berezowski, and Isabella Aboaf share feedback with an eighth grade team.
As Trump administration lawyers and critics debate whether undocumented migrants are entitled to due process in deportation proceedings, eighth grader Maseo Regan argued that the use of “person” instead of “citizen” in the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment means that anyone on American soil — citizen or non-citizen — deserves that basic legal fairness.
Maseo delivered that argument with three of his classmates from Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) during a mock Congressional hearing at the New Haven Museum.
Frank Carrano (right), with Shirley Neighbors: "Is that you?"
Cheers to the striking Class of 1975!
Wearing sweatshirts bearing the number of New Haven teachers who were sent to jail in a historic two-week strike back in 1975 — 90 of them! — 25 members of that proud class of incarcerated instructors gathered for a reunion Saturday morning.
Rev. Scott Marks: “Imagine the workers who make this city work, who are undocumented, the nervousness that they may have. We want to fight to make sure that this city remains safe.”
New Haven is now officially on the Trump administration’s list — of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that the federal government has newly called out by name for “deliberately and shamefully obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws” and thereby “endangering American communities.”
At a Friday press conference at City Hall, Mayor Justin Elicker, Police Chief Karl Jacobson, Board of Alders Majority Leader Richard Furlow, local labor leader Scott Marks, and immigrant rights activist Ambar Santiago-Rojas, among others, pushed back on that characterization — even as they embraced New Haven’s distinction as a “welcoming city” for all.
“This is something we expected,” Elicker said, “and we’re proud of it.”
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May 29, 2025 9:29 am
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Former union prez Frank Ricci: Looking to preserve pension bump signed off on by 3 mayors.
The trial date for a five-year-old lawsuit filed by the Board of Alders against the Elicker administration over the former fire union president’s pension deal has been pushed back amid a request to have a judge dismiss the case on the grounds that, legally, the city can’t sue itself.
Steve Winter and Justin Elicker, celebrating court's block of Trump's "illegal and unjustified" funding freeze.
Another federal judge has ruled for New Haven and against the Trump administration, ordering the feds to reinstate three environmental grants totaling $31 million.
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Thomas Breen |
May 20, 2025 12:51 pm
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Vanesa Suarez (center) at a New Haven PD protest in July 2024.
The West Haven Police Department has begun investigating its own investigation into the 2023 sudden death of Roya Mohammadi.
They’re doing so in response to a civilian complaint filed by a pair of New Haven anti-domestic-violence activists who allege that cops botched the first months of their looking into the role that the 29-year-old Afghan immigrant’s uncle — identified in one police report as her “uncle/boyfriend” — may have played in Mohammadi’s drowning.
The warrants follow three cease-and-desist orders issued by the Building Department on Wednesday that require the stores — Foxon Smoke Shop, Blue Sky Smoke Shop, and Vape R Us — to stop selling pot without a valid permit.
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May 14, 2025 3:04 pm
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Asst. Chief Bhagtana kicks off Wednesday's presser.
Naysha Mendez, as pictured in a Washington Memorial Funeral Home obituary video.
Naysha Mendez’s family wasn’t present at police headquarters Wednesday afternoon — but the fullness of their loss loomed large at a press conference about the arrest of the man who allegedly stabbed to death the 35-year-old New Haven mother of three.
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A view of Evergreen Cemetery, where Naysha Mendez was killed on May 2.
At the end of a police interview in which he confessed to stabbing to death 35-year-old New Havener Naysha Mendez in Evergreen Cemetery over a $700 debt, Edwin Arroyo-Roman “re-enacted the homicide” to show officers how he allegedly committed that murder.
Two officers and four juveniles were injured over the weekend after a stolen Kia crashed into two cop cars, leading to the arrest of the vehicle’s 16-year-old driver.
(Updated) City police are looking for a man who appeared to shout an anti-trans slur at a pro-Palestinian protester before spitting in that protester’s face.
State consumer protection chief Bryan T. Cafferelli: Consumers beware.
Wait… Was that a vanilla milk chocolate Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar selling for $5.99? Or a 36.25 percent THC-infused “Häagen-Za” bar selling for $59.99?
What looked at first like an American ice cream staple was actually a highly potent cannabis edible, allegedly on the shelves of the toy-store-imitating smoke shop “Vape R Us” on Wednesday.
By Thursday morning, the “Häagen-Za” bar sat in a garbage bag alongside 100 pounds of other cannabis products seized by police from three smoke shops across the city.
