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Amtrak service disrupted after fire near tracks in New York City

Nov. 12, 2024 19:58 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak service in parts of the Northeast was disrupted or delayed Tuesday after a fire broke out near a train route in New York City. Amtrak said initial reports indicated a brush fire stemming from a transformer at an Amtrak substation caused power losses for...

AP Race Call: Democrat Rosa DeLauro wins reelection to U.S. House in Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District

Nov. 06, 2024 01:49 AM EST

Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Connecticut on Wednesday. DeLauro won an 18th term by defeating Republican Michael Massey, a convenience store owner who became a supporter of former President Donald Trump while serving nine years in prison for an armed bank robbery....

New Haven rejected plans for a Black college in 1831. Generations later, it's considering an apology

Oct. 26, 2024 23:53 PM EDT

In 1831, a coalition of Black leaders and white abolitionists proposed the nation's first African American college in New Haven, Connecticut, in an attempt to open a door to education that was largely shut in a time of slavery. Instead, the city’s freemen — white male landowners...

Man fatally shot by police in Connecticut appeared to fire as officers neared, report says

Sep. 23, 2024 18:54 PM EDT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A man shot to death by Connecticut police officers last week was wanted for robbery and appeared to fire a single shot as officers tried to apprehend him, according to a preliminary report released Monday. Jebrell Conley, 36, was struck several times...

Feds bust Connecticut dealers accused of selling counterfeit pills throughout the US

Sep. 23, 2024 14:48 PM EDT

In a nondescript garage in Connecticut, a New Haven man manufactured hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills containing methamphetamine, a powerful opioid and other illicit drugs that he shipped around the U.S. and gave to local dealers to sell on the streets, new federal grand jury indictments...

A man is fatally shot by officers years after police tried to steer him away from crime

Sep. 20, 2024 10:58 AM EDT

WEST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut police officers fatally shot a 36-year-old man whom authorities had tried to steer away from crime years ago. A state police sergeant and two New Haven police officers opened fire on the man late Thursday afternoon at a car wash in West Haven...