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The two dozen firefighters who packed into Humphrey's East Restaurant were celebrating a coming marriage, drinking and jawboning in the boisterous style of large men with risky jobs, but Lt.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -As Amtrak continues a number of track work projects to improve service in the Northeast, Acela Express and Northeast Regional passengers will see additional, temporary schedule changes beginning Monday, July 13, 2009.

Burial plans for Michael Jackson were a mystery Wednesday as attention returned to doctors who may have prescribed powerful drugs for the entertainer.

Zipcar business is booming in town, so the city has decided to help make the hourly car rentals available beyond the central Yale campus.

My esteemed colleague, Civil Liberties Guide Tom Head , offers a very well-written piece on the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano , and while his insight is as sharp as always, his analysis of the matter and his final opinion about the case call for a conservative perspective.

The Police Chief in New Haven has been trying to beef up the narcotics unit. Today, the chief officially welcomed two new K-9 members.

A new report by the Brookings Institution names New Haven as one of the 20 healthiest metropolitan economies in the nation.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Prosecutors and relatives of the victims of a deadly home invasion in Cheshire two years ago are seeking one trial for the two men charged with the crime, saying the sole survivor should be spared the ordeal of two trials.

In a very controversial decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the City of New Haven should have properly considered the promotional exam scores of white firefighters and should not have disregarded them, according to USAToday.com . The tests were offered "to fill vacancies for lieutenants and captains" in the New ...

Yellow caution tape crisscrosses Lewis Street Park in New Haven. The small park is a work in progress, with a sand pit marking where a splash pad is on the way.

THE US Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano represents a huge victory for Frank Ricci and the other 19 New Haven firefighters, one of them Hispanic, who sued Mayor John DeStefano Jr.

Commuters begin to fill the loading dock at the Hartford train station for the 141 Amtrak train that leaves at 6:26 a.m. heading for Washington D.C. Many take the train to New Haven and stops along the Connecticut coast: they also hop onto a Metro North train into New York City.

The Supreme Court's decision last week in favor of white and Hispanic firefighters seeking promotions in New Haven, Conn., was a common-sense and necessary enforcement of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I knew it was going to be a good night of pizza when Jon F. and Sandi showed up with smiles of their faces.

We just got back from Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napolentana in New Haven, Connecticut.

The implicit message, delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended last week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.

Were the tests job-related? That is where you have to start when considering the case of whether white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were discriminated against when the city dumped a set of promotional exams after no African-American firefighter scored highly enough to be promoted.

A New Haven officer was struck by a motorcycle on Thursday according to police. Police said Officer Matthew Abbate was attempting to stop a group of motorcycles for moving violations when they went toward the dead-end of Hamilton Street.

The Supreme Court handed down a headline-grabbing decision on Monday on a subject steeped in emotion and controversy a ' race-based job discrimination.

Amy Speace is no stranger to rejection. Already a seasoned actress, playwright and director in New York City's cutthroat theater scene, she started a music career from scratch.