Broadway was closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic for two hours Friday afternoon after an unattended bag left near the bus stop outside A-One Pizza prompted a bomb scare. The suspicious item turned out to be nothing more than an empty laptop bag — but police took no chances. With the New Haven Police Department’s bomb squad on the scene, police officers took...
A rare instance of good news on the newspapers-are-dying front: The parent company of the New Haven Register, the Journal Register Co., has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Journal Register Co. — a conglomerate of small daily newspapers, of which the Register is the largest, and scores of weekly newspapers —
Of all the missteps we have seen in aldermanic campaigns in recent years, this is a new one: Getting your wife's name wrong when declaring your candidacy. That's what happened to a longtime West Rock resident, Carlton Staggers, when he announced Thursday that he would seek the Democratic nomination to succeed Ward 30 Alderwoman Michelle Edmonds-Sepulveda, who is...
Updated 3:36 p.m. Two New Haven firefighters and a Yale Law School professor will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee next week on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79 to the Supreme Court, the committee announced today. The professor, Kate Stith, who served as the Law School's acting dean this year, will be called by the...
Reporters and editors for the News will be posting periodic dispatches today monitoring the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in the Ricci v. DeStefano reverse discrimination case. The Court is expected to release its ruling at 10 a.m.
Six years after they took a promotional test, New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci and 19 of his peers are about to get more clarity on whether the test's results will count. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Thursday that the Court will hand down rulings on all three remaining pending cases — including the highly anticipated Ricci v. DeStefano case — on...
Over 50 kids munched popcorn on Saturday afternoon, crowding the portico of the Yale Center for British Art. Sprawled on petite mats, their faces stared rapt with enthusiasm at the red velvet curtains of a puppet booth. The silly humor of “The Punch and Judy Comedy” show — just one of several events lined up for New Haven’s 14th annual International...
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Last week, all that stood between ambitious kids and a spot on center court at the Pilot Pen tennis tournament was the singer JoJo. At the second annual Pilot Pen Tennis Casting Call, kids 12 and younger nervously vied for the gig to sing “America the Beautiful” at the tennis tournament held annually in August. As I watched the kids stroll into the Shubert...
The United States Supreme Court issued two opinions today, but neither was about the much-discussed Ricci v. DeStefano case. The Court has been widely expected to release its ruling on that case sometime this month, but there is now speculation that it may wait until after the confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor LAW ’79, which are scheduled for mid-July. As Legal...
In New Haven for the summer? They Might Be Giants - an alternative rock group that won a Grammy Award in 2002 for their song "Boss of Me" (the theme song for the TV show Malcolm in the Middle) - will be giving a free concert on the New Haven Green tomorrow at 6 p.m. The concert is part of New Haven's annual...
