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BRIDGEPORT >> Joe Ganim returned to office in 2015 - he was mayor in the 1990s - promising to stem a growing violence problem that appeared to have gotten out of hand under the administration of Bill Finch, with more than 100 shootings in one year.Ganim and good friend Police Chief Armando "A.

NORWALK >> Words of encouragement flowed in a Brookside Elementary School classroom one recent morning when a third-grader struggling to read sounded out the word "nab.""Nice job," teacher Oda Erstling said, pausing to discuss the meaning of the word before producing another flash card. "Here comes a tricky one.

A recently released documentary called "What the Health "makes the case for a vegan diet, arguing that the attendant benefits are among the best-kept of health-related secrets.

WASHINGTON >> Invasive species are everywhere you don't want them to be - curling through your garden, killing your local ash trees, or strangling your motorboat propeller."It's an ongoing problem,'' said Donna Ellis of the University of Connecticut, who coordinates the state's Integrated Pest Management program and co-chairs the

MILFORD >> Birds and nature have defined the life of Patrick Comins since has was a kid, a love that began when he noticed that his mom would toss breadcrumbs on the porch for the cardinals."I still remember when I was very young - a Baltimore oriole flew overhead and I said, 'I can't believe that we have such beautiful birds here,' " said Comins, who will soon become the next

Before I return to some of the issues that led me to write frankly about social problems no one was talking about, there is something I have to get off my chest that I just can't get out of my head.I want to share with readers an experience I had that led me to reexamine some of the issues I write about.

In her introduction to "New Haven Noir," Amy Bloom grapples with the true meaning of noir and how this city lives up to it."If noir is about corruption, absurdity, anxiety, the nightmare of bureaucracy," she wrote, "New Haven, with multiple universities and multiple clinics and multiple, and sometimes clashing, neighborhoods, is a noir town.

NEW HAVEN >> A counterprotest on the City Green denouncing a planned demonstration by far-right groups dissolved into chaos Saturday after protestors clashed with local police who attempted to disperse a crowd of more than 150 people. At least four people were taken into custody by New Haven police.

NEW HAVEN >> An independent Catholic middle school that has been renting the former Sacred Heart St. Peter School on Columbus Avenue has now purchased the building outright.The price St. Martin de Porres Academy paid for the school building from the Church of the Sacred Heart was not available Thursday.

NEW HAVEN >> Just in time.Yale University, which is often in building mode to the delight of city officials, handed over a check for $4.6 million in exchange for a construction permit for its new biology building on Whitney Avenue June 30, the last day of the 2016-17 fiscal year.It already had paid an estimated $500,000 for permits for site work and demolition at the 260 Whitney Ave.