Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 4:42pm
A handful of New Haven officials gathered at the New Haven Fire Station earlier this week in an attempt to debunk claims from a real-estate developer that the city committed negligence when it allowed the Brass Monkey — a nightclub that burned down in last December’s Ninth Square fire — to open while in violation of safety codes. The allegations by Mid Block...
In its second revelation to the public in two weeks, a team of investigators probing the 1998 slaying of Yale College senior Suzanne Jovin has announced that it is seeking the identity of an individual to whom Jovin had lent GRE study materials — a potentially critical line of inquiry that lead investigator John Mannion said previous investigators on the case neglected...
After a marathon of hearings and testimony before the state Freedom of Information Commission that began in March, the city's decision not to disclose the identities of Elm City Resident Card holders was validated in a tentative decision released by a member of the panel on Wednesday. Journalist Chris Powell and Dustin Gold, who launched the anti-illegal-immigrant...
Following a six-week internal affairs investigation, Anthony Maio — a 13-year veteran of the New Haven Police Department — was charged Wednesday with two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and two counts of unlawful restraint. Maio is fifth New Haven police officer to be arrested since the March 2007 FBI probe into the NHPD that sparked city-wide calls for...
Aldermen and New Haven residents gathered at a marathon hearing Wednesday night to hear and discuss the mayor's newly revised — and $10-million-smaller — city budget. City Hall grudgingly offered new cuts to the now-$456-million budget after a state aid package that Mayor John DeStefano Jr. and many aldermen had lobbied vigorously for fell through last week. The...
Although Quinnipiac Chronicle staff members cut all ties from the print edition last week, university administrators are moving full steam ahead with plans to change the structure of the student newspaper. In line with a proposal approved by Quinnipiac President John Lahey to change the Chronicle editorial structure, administrators have employed Quinnipiac Business...
After a two-year tug of war with administrators, Quinnipiac Chronicle editors are taking matters into their own hands — and considering severing ties with the school permanently. According to editor accounts, about 20 members of the newspaper met Wednesday night to begin planning for the possible creation an independent online newspaper. The discussion came on the...
The former head of the New Haven Police Department’s narcotics-enforcement unit, William “Billy” White, was sentenced Monday to 38 months in prison for taking bribes and embezzling money from crime scenes. With White set to start serving that sentence in June — 15 months after the FBI revealed its New Haven sting operation, which investigated corruption in the...
A 55-year-old woman was brutally assaulted by three males in a home invasion at the East Rock residence of a Yale adjunct professor late Tuesday night. Around 11:30 p.m., the woman, who was house-sitting at the time, was tied to a chair and beaten on the head with a baseball bat, according to news sources. One of the men, a 17-year-old, was later caught and charged with...
The New Haven Board of Education will head food services without the help of Aramark — or any independent food services contractor for that matter. In Monday’s monthly BOE meeting, the board voted unanimously to bring control of the food services in-house, effectively rejecting the three outside bidders. Chief Operating Officer Clark said Monday that the board is...
