The shooting occurred in New Haven but the scene is close to the East Haven line and is impacting traffic into East Haven. New Haven police are investigating a shooting at the Sunoco Gas Station, 350 Foxon Boulevard after a caller to 911 reported a man had been shot after 8 a.m. Monday. (Source)
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Farmhand Executed After Rumors He Fathered Pig, And Other Little-Known 17th Century CT Trials
On a farm here in 1642, a piglet with a deformed eye was born, stirring chatter among the townfolk about whether a farmhand with one good eye fathered the animal. The farmhand denied paternity at first, but changed his story after he was locked up and interrogated. (Source)
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Heat Advisory, Air Quality Alert Issued For Sunday
It’s going to feel like 100 degrees for most of Connecticut on Sunday and the National Weather Service urges residents to take precautions. This will arguably be the hottest day of the summer as the National Weather Service has issued a ” Heat Advisory ” for most of Connecticut as heat index values could climb […]
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State Planned Parenthood Chapter Doesn’t Donate Fetal Tissue
Connecticut’s chapter of Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics within the state do not participate in the donation of fetal tissue that was the subject of a viral Internet video released this week by an anti-abortion group, but they are standing with the national organization against the wave of criticism the video has sparked. Planned […]
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The Evolving Urban Form: Sprawling Boston
Few terms are more misunderstood than “urban sprawl.” Generally, it refers to the spatial expansion of cities and has been use to describe urbanization from the most dense in the world , the most dense in the United States and also the least dense in the world . (Source)
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Human legs found near New Haven, Connecticut, train tracks
Police in Connecticut say a pair of severed human legs have been found near a railroad station in New Haven. Officer David Hartman, a New Haven Police spokesman, says a man flagged down an officer Wednesday morning and led him to the body parts, which were located in thick foliage along the fence line near […]
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New Haven police say search for body parts is complete
The latest from New Haven police includes the plastic bag that they found Wednesday evening just off of the Chapel Street bridge down by the railroad tracks. It turns out the plastic bag police found Wednesday night contained not one arm, as police first said, but two. (Source)
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New Haven Website Walks In Fictional Footsteps
Want to take a cross-country trip going to all the bars and flop joints in San Francisco, Bakersfield, and Denver mentioned in Jack Kerouac’s On The Road ? Or, more locally, want to go to the little moat on the campus of Yale University where a key scene takes place in Tom Perrota’s coming-of-age novel […]
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East Haven Police Arrests Include Charges of Sexual Assault
Matthew R. Magaraci, 24, of Campbell Avenue in West Haven is charged with risk of injury and first-degree sexual assault. Shonasia Lowery, 21, of Howard Avenue in New Haven is charged with motor vehicle offenses, criminal impersonation and interfering with police. (Source)
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For those named Atticus, and their parents, Watchman has changed everything
Atticus Finch has long been a hero, but the release of Go Set A Watchman has complicated his legacy. Photo: Universal International Pictures When Oscar Boykin and his wife, Liz, heard that a new Harper Lee novel was to be released, populated by the same characters as To Kill a Mockingbird , they envisioned a […]
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