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New Haven's White Firefighters Win Promotions

AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | Home


NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-- A federal judge has ordered Connecticut officials to promote 14 firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landma...

Christina Lee Attack: Howard Stewart Pleads Not Guilty To Burning Girlfriend, Trying To Light Daughter On Fire

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut man has pleaded not guilty to charges he set his girlfriend on fire and tried to set her 12-year-old daughter a...

Protagonist Scrolls Intensely Through Microfilm

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home

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NEW HAVEN, CT—"The mayor's ex-wife," said the journalist, positively identifying the woman shown in a photo with a WorldChem executive. "And Lt....

Sotomayor's Clothes Picked By Government Officials During Supreme Court Nomination, Says New Justice

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says her nomination process was so tightly scripted that even her clothes were chosen f...

New Haven Police Find Pipe Bombs, Explosives In Man's Car

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two Connecticut men face charges of bomb making and other offenses after police say they found them in a Mercedes with explos...

Annie Le Yale Murder: Raymond Clark III In Court, No Plea

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory ...

What Happened at Yale and the Dark Side of the Human Soul

Richard Levin | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York


Richard Levin

It is frightening that a member of our own community might have committed this terrible crime. But we must not let this incident shatter our trust in one another.

ARRESTED: Raymond Clark III Charged With Annie Le Yale Murder

AP | RAY HENRY and MICHAEL HILL | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began...

Picture emerges of Yale suspect as controlling

AP | RAY HENRY and MICHAEL HILL | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began...

Annie Le Update: Raymond Clark III Arrested In Slaying Of Yale Student

Posted 11.16.2009 | New York


RAY HENRY and MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Police say a Yale University lab technician has been arrested in the killing of a g...

Annie Le Strangled: See Autopsy Details

AP | RAY HENRY and MICHAEL HILL | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Yale graduate student found stuffed in the wall of a research center had been suffocated, the medical examiner reported Wed...

A "Person of Interest" Can't Be Arrested

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics


Alan Dershowitz

If Raymond Clark III was in fact taken away in handcuffs and compelled to go to the police station in connection with the Yale murder case, he was arrested. But in order to be arrested, there must be probable cause.

Annie Le Suspect: "Person Of Interest" Identified In Yale Murder

AP | RAY HENRY and PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police led away a man in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors Tuesday and plan to extract DNA samples in an attempt to link h...

Annie Le Autopsy Results Expected

AP | RAY HENRY and PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police led away a man in handcuffs to the cheers of neighbors Tuesday and plan to extract DNA samples in an attempt to link h...

Annie Le Suspect: Lab Technician Eyed In Murder Of Yale Student

New York Daily News | By Matthew Lysiak and Barry Paddock in New Haven, Conn., and Samuel Goldsmith in New York | Posted 11.15.2009 | New York


Cops are zeroing in on a Yale lab tech - who flunked a lie detector test and has scratch marks on his chest - in the murder of grad student Annie Le, ...

Annie Le Suspect: Yale Slaying Looks Like An Inside Job

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed ins...

Annie Le: Body Found Inside Yale Lab Building: Police

Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)-- Police in Connecticut say a body has been found in a building where a Yale University graduate student vanished. New Haven As...

Annie Le: Body found inside Yale lab building: Police

AP | PATRICK SANDERS | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police on Sunday said they found what they believe is the body of a Yale University graduate student and bride-to-be hidden i...

Annie Le: Police Search Hartford Garbage Incinerator For Clues

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York


HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)- Investigators sifted through garbage at an incinerator Sunday, looking for clues into the disappearance of a Yale University gra...

Annie Le, Yale Grad Student, Disappears Days Before Wedding

AP | Posted 11.10.2009 | New York


NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Police used search dogs and reviewed security camera footage as they tried to find a 24-year-old Yale University graduate stu...

Reading the Pictures: Reaching the High Court on the Backs of White Heroes

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics


Michael Shaw

2009-07-16-20090716NewHavenfirefightersSotomayorhearing.jpgThis line of primarily white "first responders" makes for a vivid non-verbal argument that Sonia is stepping up to the high court on the backs of these white heroes.

Redefining Bias in the 21st Century

Mitchell Kapor | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Mitchell Kapor

If we truly want to promote our society as a level playing field, then we must become more adept at differentiating between what actually is earned versus what is a matter of circumstance.

Sotomayor and the New Haven Firefighters Case: More Myths Than Facts

Lanny Davis | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


Lanny Davis

From a surprisingly broad left-to-right spectrum, the Conventional Wisdom punditry seems to have decided that Judge Sotomayor was wrong on the law.

Who's Against the New Urbanism?

Mark Oppenheimer | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living


Mark Oppenheimer

As I wrote this morning at the New Haven Review (where I would love to receive comments): I have been thinking about turning this article I wrote abo...

Youth League Bars 9-Year Old Pitcher Because He's Too Good? Ridiculous.

Dave Hollander | Posted 09.27.2008 | Living


Dave Hollander

When little Jericho refused to quit and took the mound last week, the opposing team forfeited. They just packed up and left the field. This is an entirely wrong lesson to teach kids.