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NEW HAVEN >> Officers were dispatched Thursday night to a McDonald's parking lot regarding a reported shooting.Starling Cordero-Mackenzi, 33, of New Haven, was found unconscious at the rear of the lot and rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital by emergency responders. He remains in critical but stable condition after surgery, police said.

Police said Mills was last seen Thursday wearing a black hoodie and white sneakers. Anyone with information on Mills' whereabouts should call the police at 203-946-6316.

WALLINGFORD >> It was a night for beginnings and endings for graduating Gateway Community College students and their president.The college is celebrating its 25th year this year and its fifth year in its new downtown New Haven campus. For the last 18 of those years, Dorsey Kendrick has led the college, but Thursday's graduation ceremonies at the Oakdale Theater were her last before she retires next month.

The Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade was a very big hit this year, bringing thousands to Dixwell Avenue and acting as a centerpiece for an all-day celebration of community that brought old friends together and served as a destination event for those who grew up here but moved out of state.

NEW HAVEN >> A woman whose former boyfriend, Derek Rawls, permanently scarred her in an acid attack, saw him sentenced Thursday to serve six years in prison."I pray that one day my emotional pain will cease," she said in a written courtroom statement.

They didn't talk much about what had happened to them "over there," those young Americans coming back home from World War I. But their families have their artifacts, and they speak volumes.Gail Curran of New Haven came to the New Haven Museum Wednesday afternoon of this week carrying an old scrapbook full of newspaper clippings, photos and other memorabilia attesting to the service of her father, Albert Iver Coleman.

Lifelong New Haven resident Carlah Esdaile Bragg and Branford resident David Light have been appointed to the board of directors of Family ReEntry, a nonprofit that assists families affected by the criminal justice system, according to a press release from the organization.

HARTFORD >> It's become sort of a running joke at the state Capitol these days. How many bills will get through the state Senate?The answer Wednesday was three.There were four more bills ready to go, but Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, asked for a vote to end debate on SB 1001, An Act Prohibiting Smoking on Beaches in State Parks, after Republicans refused to introduce a bipartisan amendment and adjourned.

NEW HAVEN >> Hillhouse High School senior Antoine Merritt is used to these ceremonies. It's the second year in a row he's attended one. Merritt was among dozens of other Hillhouse students honored Thursday during a ceremony at City Hall hosted by Mayor Toni Harp, who in addition to Merritt's boy's track teammates, welcomed

WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump's revised travel ban "speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination," a federal appeals court said Thursday in ruling against the executive order targeting six Muslim-majority countries.