Sisters Corinne Weston, Tina Weston, and Terry Lyn Weston take in the view at Lighthouse Park beach.
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Molecular medicine PhD student Dominique Sims and endocrinology student Frankie Villalobos on an "eclipse date" outside Leitner Observatory.
As 92 percent of the sun vanished from New Haven’s sky Monday afternoon, it seemed like 92 percent of the city came outside to pause their daily routines to experience a moment in nature together.
Area first responders attended a special training session on electric vehicles at the Michael E. Grant Regional Fire School off of Ella Grasso Boulevard.
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Protesters at a Black Lives Matter march in June.
The Board of Alders unanimously adopted nearly 50 recommendations seeking to recognize and undo the negative health impacts caused by systemic racism against Black, Native American, Asian, and Latino residents.
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Mayor Elicker at Wednesday’s snowstorm presser.
A citywide parking ban during the coming snowstorm goes into effect Wednesday at 9 p.m. Wednesday — with tow trucks at the ready to pull away violating vehicles, including on narrow streets.
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Julio Perez and his fellow public-works crew members are ready for the blizzard predicted to hit New Haven starting tonight. They have the payloader and the sand to show it.
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Two maintenance workers died and three people were injured Friday morning during a steam explosion that occurred in the basement of an outer building at the West Haven Veteran Affairs (VA) hospital campus.
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Justin Elicker.
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked more power out of more New Haven homes than Hurricane Sandy, forcing the city Thursday to do triage — or tree-age — to get streets cleared.
A toppled tree on Lombard Street. Below: City tree trimmer Adam Wambolt clears the wreckage.
Police headquarters’ servers: Too hot to work.
City officials Wednesday surveyed the widespread damage caused by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and cautioned that it may take a week or longer for all of the 8,000-plus local homes still without electricity to regain power.
Navigating post-storm Orange Street near East Rock.
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Power out at home, Shayna Reeves, Madison Dortche and Lawrence Grayson feed the the Edgewood Park ducks after the storm.
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Lynwood Place.
New Haven emerged from shuttered homes in the last hours of daylight Tuesday to survey the wreckage wrought by Tropical Storm Isaias’s 63 mile-per-hour winds — and to begin the work of cleaning up.
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New Haven residents should make immediate preparations to keep themselves and their families safe during the incoming Tropical Storm Isaias, Mayor Justin Elicker, Director of Emergency Operations Rick Fontana, and other city officials advised during a press conference Monday afternoon.
Hundreds of cars jammed the streets of Downtown New Haven from Hillhouse Avenue all the way to the Yale School of Medicine during rush hour Wednesday to demand that “Yale respect New Haven.”
Columbus removed from pedestal, en route to undisclosed location.
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Pro-removal activists cheer the moment.
At 1 p.m. Wednesday, after a week of debate and a morning of sometimes violent conflict, a city-hired crew removed the statue of Christopher Columbus from Wooster Square Park.
A screaming match turned into a brief racial fight in the park earlier Wednesday morning as a crowd waited for a late crane to arrive to remove the statue of the 15th-century explorer.
Watch the altercation above. (A Columbus statue supporter threw the first punch at around the 4:10 mark in the video.)
The crane finally arrived hours later. Watch live in the above video as, amid protests and singing and chants of “Take it down!,” a crew removes it.
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East Haven man detained for attacking pro-removal activist.
(Updated: 6:34 p.m.) A clean-up crew was on scene at the evacuated 300 George St. biomedical research building Tuesday afternoon to clean an apparent chemical spill.
• Called off earlier than originally planned. • Park only on even sides of residential streets. • No parking downtown. • Use school lots; leave by 8 a.m. Monday.
Green smoke from the flash bang officers used in the capture of the shooter Saturday.
A 51-year-old New Haven man is in custody and being treated for his injuries after shooting and critically injuring his wife and shooting two police officers Saturday.
A hazmat scare at the Saint Raphael Campus of Yale-New Haven Hospital on Chapel Street has been cleared and turned over to both local and state police for investigation.
New Haven police and fire departments enacted a series of street closures around the Green in response to a bomb threat inside City Hall. As of 6:20, the streets were reopened.
Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency room doctors were working mid-day Wednesday on a critically ill survivor of a plane crash near Tweed-New Haven Airport.
