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NEW HAVEN >> Four Metropolitan Transit Authority employees were recognized Thursday for reuniting a missing, non-verbal, autistic teen with his family last month.Conductor Sean Tedesco and Assistant Conductor Charles Dolan knew right away that the teen on board their westbound 11:46 a.m. train from New Haven on April 16 should not have been traveling alone, according to a release.

NEW HAVEN >> Yale University workers Thursday morning dismantled and hauled away a protest encampment erected last month in an effort to pressure the university into negotiating with graduate student union UNITE HERE Local 33.A university spokesman confirmed that Yale removed the shelter from Beinecke Plaza, which was located outside Yale President Peter Salovey's Woodbridge Hall office.

NEW HAVEN >> This week has yielded a double dose of bad news for Alexion Pharmaceuticals and those who see the drugmaker as a centerpiece of the local and state economy.New Haven-based Alexion announced Tuesday that its chief financial officer, the head of research and development, the top compliance officer and the executive in charge of human resources all will be leaving the company.

NEW HAVEN >>The Environmental Impact Evaluation for the proposed Union Station garage should be available to the public within a month, at the latest.The Office of Policy and Management received the updated report from the state Department of Transportation on April 26 and can take from 30 to 60 days to review it.

Connecticut media has been focused this week on the local impact of President Donald Trump's budget. The 10-year plan, announced Tuesday, seeks to cut more than $3.5 trillion out of the federal budget, a percentage of which would come out of Connecticut's programs for the poor, sick and elderly. It would cut a huge chunk of funding from the state's public schools, too.

HARTFORD >> The U.S. attorney's office Wednesday announced another conviction in the continuing fight against the deadly opioid epidemic in Connecticut.Ramon L. Killings, 39, of Bridgeport pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of distribution of heroin following the fatal overdose of one of his customers, according to a release.

NEW HAVEN >> A woman who was driving under the influence of alcohol when her car struck and killed a Bethany teenager on Christmas night 2016 has avoided prison time.Barbara Ann Ross of Cheshire, who was 60 at the time, struck Robert Weidig Jr., 18, on Route 69 in Bethany as he walked with a friend to a Christmas music-and-dance event.

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is no longer being considered a top candidate for director of the FBI, according to a report from CNNThe network reports a senior administration official said the Trump administration is "resetting its search" and that Trump would like to see

NEW HAVEN >> Adil Chokairy didn't have to travel very far for his latest culinary venture. All he needed was a tricyle. A Parisian expat turned New Haven resident, Chokairy has opened his latest business, Au Chalet, next door to his first storefront on Whitney Avenue, Crepes Choupette. His new restaurant will introduce the city to a unique form of Swiss-inspired dining called raclette.

NEW HAVEN >> The New Haven Independent reports that 31 New Haven police sergeants who took the civil service exam to become lieutenants passed it and the police chief now would determine who will be promoted "The test results were announced Tuesday as the Civil Service Commission approved an eligible roster for the rank of police lieutenant at its regular monthly meeting, with several policing officers on that list watching and waiting anxiously for the results," the Independent reported.