2+ hour, 55+ min ago  (422+ words) The Board of Alders Finance Committee voted Thursday to recommend accepting a roughly $5 million annual boost to Yale University's voluntary payments to the city for each of the next seven years, while echoing a resounding message: Yale should do more....

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (622+ words) A statewide hospitality workers union endorsed Gov. Ned Lamont on Tuesday in his bid for reelection " becoming just the latest labor group to pledge their support for the two-term incumbent's bid for another four years in office." The union, UNITE…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1059+ words) In 2013, a federal judge overturned Scott Lewis's murder conviction on the basis of police misconduct. Four years later, the City of New Haven paid Lewis $9. 5 million in a wrongful-conviction settlement. But in a federal courtroom on Tuesday, an attorney representing…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (387+ words) Thanks to a budget-season windfall of tens of millions of new dollars from the state and Yale, Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed a smaller tax-rate increase " 1. 95 percent instead of 4. 01 percent " for next fiscal year, as well as $13. 9 million more for…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (552+ words) In the name of working-class solidarity, five local Teamsters unions endorsed Gov. Ned Lamont for reelection despite his high-income bracket. Union members said they care more about his policy record than his bank account." Those unions announced their support of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (301+ words) A sitting state judge took the stand in a wrongful-conviction trial Thursday morning and said over and over again that, when he was a state prosecutor three decades ago, he never saw any evidence that Vincent Raucci fabricated evidence or…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1775+ words) The former wife of a retired New Haven detective testified in court on Tuesday afternoon, even though she was afraid. She was afraid, she said, that her ex-husband would try to burn her house down if she spoke about his…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (471+ words) A regional educational organization has purchased a former factory-turned-office building at the corner of James Street and Humphrey Street to use as its central-office headquarters. That property transaction was recorded on the city's land records database on April 30. The deal's…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (267+ words) New Haven State Sen. Gary Winfield is about to embark on two campaigns at once. But first he had more immediate business to attend to Monday: Work to stop having so many inmates die behind bars. Assuming Democrats maintain their…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (401+ words) New Haven Independent (Opinion) New Haven stood for justice in one case this week. And resumed perpetrating cruel injustice in another. The first case is the Trump administration's bogus, political-retribution lawsuit against the city over our welcoming policy toward immigrants....