Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:54pm
For New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., violence reduction and education continue to be the city’s highest priorities.
Echoing the concerns and priorities he has laid out in previous public forums this year, DeStefano highlighted the need to focus on crime reduction, schools and securing state funding at his fourth and final community budget...
Although Quinnipiac Chronicle staff members cut all ties from the print edition last week, university administrators are moving full steam ahead with plans to change the structure of the student newspaper. In line with a proposal approved by Quinnipiac President John Lahey to change the Chronicle editorial structure, administrators have employed Quinnipiac Business...
After a two-year tug of war with administrators, Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are taking matters into their own hands — and considering severing ties with the school permanently. According to editor accounts, about 20 members of the newspaper met Wednesday night to begin planning for the possible creation an independent online newspaper. The discussion came on the...
The former head of the New Haven Police Department’s narcotics-enforcement unit, William “Billy” White, was sentenced Monday to 38 months in prison for taking bribes and embezzling money from crime scenes. With White set to start serving that sentence in June — 15 months after the FBI revealed its New Haven sting operation, which investigated corruption in the...
A 55-year-old woman was brutally assaulted by three males in a home invasion at the East Rock residence of a Yale adjunct professor late Tuesday night. Around 11:30 p.m., the woman, who was house-sitting at the time, was tied to a chair and beaten on the head with a baseball bat, according to news sources. One of the men, a 17-year-old, was later caught and charged with...
The New Haven Board of Education will head food services without the help of Aramark — or any independent food services contractor for that matter. In Monday’s monthly BOE meeting, the board voted unanimously to bring control of the food services in-house, effectively rejecting the three outside bidders. Chief Operating Officer Clark said Monday that the board is...
Last year, Jake Berv ’10 dedicated several days to searching for Uma Thurman when the star visited the Elm City to shoot “The Life Before Her Eyes .” And he wasn’t the only one: for a few days last September, Uma-mania swept the campus. In stark contrast to the hype surrounding Thurman’s visit, the arrival of Robert DeNiro and Kate Beckinsale at Union Station...
Ask New Haven Police Department Interim Chief Stephanie Redding, and she’ll say that being a woman has never made her more or less successful at her job. “I think every officer individually has their strengths and weaknesses,” Redding says. But during her 23-year career at the NHPD, being a woman has always made Redding a minority within the department, and that...
Community Services Administrator Kica Matos presented a death threat she received as evidence of the danger of a forced disclosure, by the city of New Haven to the public, of the identities of residents who have obtained Elm City Resident Cards at last Friday’s Freedom of Information Commission hearing on the matter. Matos, who helped design the ID card program...
State Senate Democrats said a resolute “no” to Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s recent call for a “three-strikes” law when the Senate voted Thursday to approve a new state crime bill and reject an amendment including the governor’s favored provision. The bill, approved by the Senate, 32-3, would allow a judge to double the duration of a first-time sentence after a second...
Parks often symbolize entire communities, and Dixwell demonstrated the strength of its community last night in rallying for a new park development. The New Haven Board of Aldermen’s Community Development Committee met Thursday to review and approve city funding for a new park development. The new park will expand the existing recreational area in the Dixwell...