New Haven News

A New Haven man operating a major drug trafficking ring was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison and five years of supervised released, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

Plunging into politics for the first time, lifelong East Rocker Anna Festa vowed to represent the voice of regular New Haveners - unlike, she said, aldermen who voted against public opinion to sell two streets to Yale.

Two New Haven legislators made a bad bet on New Haven when they voted to bring more gambling here, Henry Fernandez argued Monday afternoon.

Getting trapped in an elevator for a few minutes is no fun for anyone, but imagine what it would be like to be confined in one for more than three days.

When Yale University experienced a power outage earlier this year it was a timely lesson that a well-equipped research university has to be prepared for an unexpected loss of electricity and do that with a reliable power protection plan in place.

ORANGE, Conn. -- Three suspects were arrested after a string of armed robberies at local Radio Shack stores.

City lawmakers are ready to let voters decide whether to make the Board of Ed partially elected - but they're not so sure about the part of barring the mayor from sitting on it.

HAMDEN, Conn. -- Police arrested a couple of New Haven residents after finding drugs and weapons inside their vehicle during a traffic stop Sunday morning.

Mike Lapitino will be at Planet Fitness in Meriden, 454 South Broad Street , from 10:00 am to 12 noon.

Hispanic preschoolers, children and adolescents viewed, on average about 12 foods ads per day on television in 2010, with the majority of these ads appearing on English-language TV, whereas fast-food represented a higher proportion of the food ads on Spanish-language television, according to a study published Online First by JAMA Pediatrics .

A report ranking the country's most violent cities would seem to confirm what suburban neighbors of the state's largest city have long whispered behind their white picket fences -- Bridgeport is the most dangerous place in Connecticut.

Lawrence J. DeNardis, Ph.D, president emeritus and distinguished professor of political science at the University of New Haven will be the speaker at this year's Annual Meeting.

A former fire chief blessed the city's new fire boat with a few drops of water, then the "Nathan Hale" let loose with its cannons and sent 4,800 gallons per minute into the air.

About 30 local members of the Communications Workers of America union, joined by Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and state Rep. Ernest Hewett, protested today outside the AT&T call center on State Street, saying corporate greed was driving a move to shift local employees to New Haven.

A quick trip to the New Haven Green can be music to New Yorkers' ears this month.

David Byrne and St. Vincent will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 20, at Shubert Theater , 247 College St., New Haven .

At first blush, Norman Israel didn't seem like the perfect person to target for the flyers Keith Dixon and Neisse Perez were handing out on Ellsworth Avenue the other day.

A silver alert has been issued for a missing 15-year-old New Haven girl. Police say Tinesse Hoffler was last seen wearing a cream colored button shirt, blue khakis and sandals.

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Ali Abdullah, a 42-year-old security guard, left his native Iraq in 2009 after receiving death threats for working with U.S. companies.