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NEW YORK >> The longtime editor of one of the world's oldest literary publications is stepping down.J.D. McClatchy, a prize-winning poet and librettist, told The Associated Press he is leaving The Yale Review, effective at the end of this month. Harold Augenbraum, a visiting Fellow at Yale University and the former executive director of the National Book Foundation, will serve as editor until a permanent replacement is found.

Avangrid Inc., which oversees the U.S. utility holdings of Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, is relocating its headquarters from the Connecticut Financial Center in New Haven to Marsh Hill Road in Orange, a company spokesman said Tuesday.The move will involve about 80 people, Michael West, an Avangrid spokesman said.

NEW HAVEN >> The city is denying police Sgt. Wilfredo Cruz's claim that his removal from a district manager position resulted from bias and instead says it was due to Cruz's job performance - despite a state agency's ruling last week showing Cruz's complaints have reasonable cause. The city's June 16 fact-finding conference memo to the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunity suggests Cruz was reassigned after local residents in the East Shore's District 9 felt Cruz was not responsive enough to the community whose crime rate allegedly rose under his supervision.

WASHINGTON >> About an hour before it was announced the GOP health-care bill was delayed, Sen. Chris Murphy joined fellow Democrats on the Capitol steps in holding aloft portraits of constituents who, they said, would be harmed by the Republican health care bill.For Murphy, it was poster-sized, smiling picture of a 20-month-old Stamford boy named Antonio Davis who receives treatment through Medicaid for a rare genetic disorder.

HAMDEN >> Chamar Kelley, 15, is the subject of a Silver Alert.Chamar is a black male with black hair and brown eyes.Chamar stands 5 feet 8 inches and weighs about 140 pounds.Chamar was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers.Anyone with information regarding Chamar's whereabouts is asked to call Hamden police at 203-230-4000.

NEW HAVEN >> Jurors in Jermaine Harris' murder trial Tuesday viewed a surveillance videotape which showed two shadowy figures walking behind Daryl McIver and moments later McIver collapsing onto the ground.The tape, recorded by a security camera at Total Fence Company on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, was shot at night and faces of the three people could not be seen.

Connecticut's plan to increase student achievement and promote equity in its public schools in a post-No Child Left Behind era has gotten a mixed review.The critique comes not from the U.S. Department of Education, but an independent non-profit that has read and reviewed accountability plans submitted last spring by 16 states and the District of Columbia under the

HARTFORD >> It's more likely that Connecticut's new fiscal year will begin July 1 with an executive order from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to fund bare-bones state services, after House Democrats on Tuesday admitted they won't approve a spending plan this week.

NEW HAVEN >> The search for a new New Haven Superintendent of Schools was delayed once more after two focus group meetings saw a collective attendance of 41 people, the Board of Education announced Monday.

NEW HAVEN >> After a line-by-line reading denouncing Mayor Toni Harp's reasoning for disapproving their policy amendments, the Board of Alders Tuesday unanimously voted to override Harp's veto of their 10 amendments. The veto was announced last week and targeted a portion of the approved 2017-18 fiscal year budget passed earlier this month.