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Susan Williams, of Bridgeport, carries her beach umbrella along the boardwalk after spending the afternoon at Pleasure Beach, a 71 acre peninsula betweeen Bridgeport and Stratford which reopened to the public Saturday, June 28, 2014, after being closed for nearly two decades.

In this photo taken on June 20, 2014, Yaser Elhilo, owner of Zebra Hip Hop Sportswear, displays some of the jeans and underwear he sells in New Haven, Conn.

A top draw for some of the hundreds of thousands of visitors to New England's weekend Sailfest was surely the Freedom Schooner Amistad, replica of the United States' most famous slavery vessel, even as many were unaware of the suspense behind its eventual appearance at the annual tall ships gathering.

Employee background checks ordered for charter schools are conducted as a matter of course -- sometimes with interesting results -- according to the other charter school operators in the city.

A Middletown woman told police she used a torn bed sheet to choke a man to death at the Branford Motel on July 3 because she was being physically abused, according to an arrest warrant.

One of the biggest riddles in Earth's history is why animals did not evolve after a spike in oxygen levels approximately 2.3 billion years ago.

What's worse than being caught in possession of stolen goods, maybe being apprehended with both stolen goods and drugs, and that is allegedly what happened to a New Haven woman, police said in a press release.

Grover Cunningham was a man of vision. Only 11 years after Henry Ford produced the Model T, the Greenwich man thought the time was right to start an autobody shop in his hometown.

The Jumoke Academy charter school organization has fired its own management group, the troubled FUSE, after weeks of turmoil that resulted in a state investigation.

July is the time of nostalgia bands. We have The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards on the Green, Talking Heads and Hall & Oates tribute bands at Toad's and the authoritative '90s alt-folk rocker Freedy Johnston at Cafe Nine.

This Nov. 9, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office shows Babar Ahmad, extradited in October 2012 with Syed Talha Ahsan to the United States from Britain on charges of supporting terrorists through websites.

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It has been two months since Fairfield's Representative Town Meeting approved the 2014 budget, and yet the cries of acrimony continue over the fact that RTM Republicans imposed a limit to the year-over-year spending increases.

Placard-wielding protesters filled the front steps of New Haven's federal court building to spread a message: The unaccompanied children coming over the Mexican border aren't freeloaders; they're refugees.

Michael W. Roberts, 56, of 8 Park Ave., Westerly, was charged Wednesday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and passing in a no-passing zone.

A group rallied on the steps of the federal courthouse to demand a solution to the growing crisis at the US-Mexico border.

Luis A. Martinez, 24, of New Haven, was arrested Wednesday and charged with car break-ins at The Edge.

A New Haven police officer was forced to shoot an escaped pit bull who attacked him Wednesday, after the dog's owner called police fearing for the safety of park goers.

New Haven Producer Trish Clark and David Brown, from Good Natured Dog Team Leader - DB Studios Multimedia, talk about the 48 Hour Film Project.

Crew members aboard the Freedom Schooner Amistad perform routine maintenance while docked at Long Wharf Pier in New Haven Wednesday, July 9, 2014.