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Amtrak service along parts of the Northeast corridor resumes after disruptions on 2 days

Nov. 13, 2024 16:30 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Amtrak service along sections of the Northeast corridor resumed Wednesday after disruptions on two consecutive days. Service between New York and New Haven, Connecticut, was restored about 24 hours after it was suspended because of a fire near a train route in New...

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...