New Haven County | featured news

Police said Fiona was last seen Wednesday wearing a black T-shirt with #1, blue jeans and sandals Anyone with information on her whereabouts should call the police at 203-946-6316.

NEW HAVEN >> A Silver Alert has been issued for Camran Bastien, 16.Bastien is a black male with black hair and brown eyes. He stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 135 pounds.Bastien was last seen Saturday, wearing a royal blue shirt and khaki pants.No photo was made available.

It's inexplicable that the New Haven Board of Education only just started the search for a new superintendent of schools some seven months after the last permanent superintendent left.

NEW HAVEN >> Brothers Jose Santiago and Santiago Falero Jr. kept themselves busy on Friday evening. The two were mostly stone-faced and calm, politely greeting people inside the lobby at Iglesia Cristiana Estrella Resplandeciente de Jacob on Chapel Street. The two couldn't have been more composed during such a somber occasion.

HARTFORD >> Medical marijuana has been approved for three new medical conditions, while two others were rejected, Consumer Protection Commissioner Michelle H. Seagull announced Friday.Seagull said in a press release that she had followed the Consumer Protection Department's Board of Physicians' recommendations to add hydrocephalus with intractable headache, intractable migraines and trigeminal neuralgia to the list of conditions for which doctors may certify patients.

NEW HAVEN >> In his first year as head of Hopkins School, it was the faculty - not the students - who gave Kai Bynum problems, he joked at the school's Friday commencement ceremony.

NEW HAVEN >> Signaling an end to seven years of legal delays, Dr. Lishan Wang Friday pleaded nolo contendere to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and three other charges in the shooting death of his former medical colleague, and he agreed to a prison sentence of 32 years.Wang, now 51, has been in custody, in jail and at

Six nursing homes have been fined for violations, including two incidents where residents died.Advanced Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in New Haven was fined $3,000 after a resident with acute kidney injury and other diagnoses died, according to the state

SHORELINE >> Contrary to a sensational story about the threat of fisher cats to pets that is recirculating on Facebook, these creatures are not the predators pet owners should worry about on the Shoreline. With pets enjoying warmer weather and freedom to enjoy the fresh air, owners needs to take extra precautions to protect their four-legged family members against predatory wildlife, but especially coyotes, according to a state wildlife expert.

The powerful synthetic opioid carfentanil has made its way to Connecticut and was part of a drug cocktail that claimed its first victim, a man who died in Norwalk.Officials last year said there was no clear indication the opioid, which the Drug Enforcement Agency says is often used as an elephant tranquilizer, was in the state.