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Two of the Yale students who were arrested early Tuesday for burning an American flag hanging from a Chapel Street home remained incarcerated this morning, but the third student has paid bond and was released yesterday. According to court records, Hyder Akbar ’07, Nikolaos Angelopoulos ’10 and Farhad Anklesaria ’10 were charged with multiple counts »

Three Yale students, including the son of a former governor of an Afghan province, were arrested early Tuesday morning after burning an American flag attached to a home on Chapel Street. Hyder Akbar ’07, Nikolaos Angelopoulos ’10 and Farhad Anklesaria ’10 were arrested for charges including first-degree reckless endangerment, third-degree criminal mischief, second-degree arson, breach »

The first three months of 2007 saw a decline in overall crime in New Haven, but non-lethal shootings were up, following a trend that started late last year, police officials announced Monday. Overall crime for the first quarter of 2007 was down by 6 percent compared to the same period last year, New Haven Police »

Though police departments nationwide have been feeling the crunch of decreased applications, the effects of this drop have been felt more strongly by the New Haven Police Department — now in the midst of an expansion effort — than by the Yale Police Department. While the YPD will likely be able to meet its need »

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. took personal responsibility Friday for recent problems in the New Haven Police Department during a press conference announcing new leadership for the NHPD’s Investigative Services Unit. The new appointments follow the arrest of two Narcotics Enforcement Unit officers — Lt. Billy White and Detective Justen Kasperzyk — on Mar. 13, the »

A Silliman freshman was robbed Friday night on Dwight Street. Zachary Abrahamson ’10 said he was walking with a friend from his brother’s apartment on Dwight Street towards Swing Space when he was robbed by an armed man. Abrahamson said Silliman Master Judith Krauss told him later that night that a Calhoun student had also »

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. As a meeting room in the Elk’s Club on Webster Street began to fill up Tuesday night, New Haven police officers and community members mingled — though perhaps not entirely comfortably — in anticipation of the heated discussion to come. Several of Mayor »

A federal sting investigation into the New Haven Police Department culminated March 13 when FBI agents locked down and then raided NHPD headquarters, arresting two officers — including Lt. Billy White, the head of the department’s narcotics division — and three bail bondsmen at the Chapel Street state courthouse. The FBI took the city by »

As the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation continue to investigate corruption in the New Haven Police Department, Mayor John DeStefano announced this week that a private research firm will lead the city’s internal investigations. Just over a week after two police officers from the city’s narcotics unit were arraigned on corruption »

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested two members of the New Haven Police Department and three others when they executed a search and seizure warrant today at NHPD headquarters and several other buildings around the city, representatives of the New Haven division of the FBI said. Marybeth Miklos of the New Haven FBI confirmed that »

Just because an invention is 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair does not mean that it will not elicit strong ideological responses in humans, according to a Yale study released Wednesday. Researchers at the Cultural Cognitive Project at Yale Law School, in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, found that »

As members of the Yale and Dixwell communities begin to explore the possibility of adding two new residential colleges, both University and community leaders said safety concerns for students will figure prominently in the debate. The issue of the new colleges’ impacts on security will be addressed by the Committee on Student Life, which has »