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The jail cell death last weekend of Yale University professor Samuel See, known as a brilliant writer and rising star in academia, has shaken up the tight-knit college community.

Two men extradited from Britain last year are expected to change their pleas in Connecticut on charges they supported terrorists in Afghanistan and Chechnya by operating websites to raise cash, recruit fighters and solicit items such as gas masks.

For people suffering from social anxiety disorder , group therapy may help, according to a new report published in the journal PLOS One .

In the third-floor rock-and-mineral galleries at Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven are some spectacular and beautiful geological wonders: a smooth, transparent pink calcite, a sea-green fluorite that looks like a big jade teddy bear, a tall, pointed purple quartz geode.

FBI Director James Comey speaks during a press conference at FBI Headquarters, in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 6, 2013.

Lillian Calistro Lehane, 90, of North Haven, wife of the late James M. Lehane, Jr., died peacefully Dec. 5 at Connecticut Hospice in Branford.

Cheryl Footit, of Wallingford, went to the Access Health Connecticut store in New Haven to figure out what the best insurance plan would be for her and her daughter.

Peacock feather wedding cupcakes by Cupcake Novelties prove that the wedding favor has risen to new heights with the bride and groom giving guests a wide range of favors that are meaningful to them.

A new academic research unit called the Canine Cognition Center at Yale opens Dec. 9, and psychologists there are recruiting dogs of all breeds to participate in games designed to reveal what and how they think.

There's been a lot of drama at Trumbull High School lately because of what they can't do on stage - the principal has formally canceled their Spring musical production of "Rent" Starting today, it might be a little harder to get food in New Haven and Hartford at Dunkin Donuts, Subway, McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King - fast food workers are ... (more)

Dec. 06 -- NEW HAVEN -- The Securities and Exchange Commission subpoena seeking documents on an alternative investment by the city's public safety pensions says it is part of a fact-finding inquiry that has not determined if there are any violations of federal securities laws.

Betsy Fox lived in New Haven 's Wooster Square neighborhood for two years, in the '80s.

"At the end of the day, our goal is to have kids emerge from the New Haven Public School district prepared and ready for college and lifelong learning and success," said DeStefano.

John R. Quinn, president & CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut serving the Greater New Haven area, recently announced that VNA/SCC has been awarded a $2,000 grant from Webster Bank to be used for the Pam's Pantry program.

New Haven has a good handle on the pizza situation, with New Haven-style pizza championed by a few big players, and done well all over Connecticut.

Amidst the shifting landscape in media, the print NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT ADVOCATE couldn't manage to survive.

By now we've all heard stories of hospitals charging hundreds of dollars for an aspirin pill or a bandage, part of the screwy world of medical cost allocation that includes list prices almost no one pays, based on made-up numbers.

Eric Arsenault, 18, of Midwood Road in Branford, was charged Nov. 26 with possession of less than one-half ounce of cannabis-type substance.

What makes it special?: The revival is directed by Phylicia Rashad, who has starred in and staged several of Wilson's works.

Talk therapy conducted in groups could help people with social anxiety disorder, according to a new review of past studies.