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Matriarch’s Death Prompts Mental Health Reckoning
“There wasn’t a time when she didn’t put a smile on my face. She was a caring person and we talked and laughed at least everyday.”

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“There wasn’t a time when she didn’t put a smile on my face. She was a caring person and we talked and laughed at least everyday.”

A group of business owners are calling for an end to the five-year tradition of turning their block into a pedestrian-friendly promenade.
“This really does save her life,” the woman’s lawyer said. “She has been through an unspeakable amount of violence.”
The man accused of using a large pipe to shatter the restaurant’s window has been arrested 33 times since 2000, according to police.
Masked men pointed guns at employees as they robbed the store twice in one week.
One of the city’s largest private landlords has sold nine different rental properties for more than $4 million so far this month.
“It’s crazy,” a local importer said of rising prices & the Trump administration’s proposal to impose a 107 percent tariff on Italian imports
New Haven government agreed to pay $45 million for its role in paralyzing Richard “Randy” Cox. Two cops charged in the case paid $15 apiece.
Family members are still searching for answers regarding the man’s death.
"These neighbors have had to deal with unstable foundations, health concerns, & financial strain, and none of that was of their own making."
“I was in shock. I didn’t expect that to happen,” the girlfriend said in Spanish. “I feel really sad. There’s a part of me they took.”
Police Chief Karl Jacobson said that “video evidence and community support” helped lead officers to make an arrest.
A firefighter rappelled 40 feet down the cliff face of East Rock Park to rescue two identical small white dogs that were stranded on a ledge
“We need people to do the right thing. We need people to come forward,” New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson said.
The vote came a week after union food service workers held a rally amid stalled contract negotiations with corporate giant Sodexo.
The owners of an East Haven restaurant are looking to open a sports bar in Westville Village.
The closing is “bittersweet,” a longtime customer said. She’s very happy for the owners, but also said it's “miserable for the rest of us.”
The shop's manager said she felt “hurt and blindsided” by the news.
The barbershop issued its last haircut on Saturday in the building that it has operated out of for more than a century.
The police chief’s message to people committing these crimes: “We’re going to find out who you are and prosecute you and arrest you.”