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In a financial disclosure form filed on March 31 of this year, Local 33 does not indicate that it received any funds from UNITE HERE, leaving no public record of how the money was used and renewing concerns about the union's transparency, according to Yale Daily News.

NEW HAVEN >> Police charged a city man Thursday with distributing drugs, including to a young woman who later died.The criminal complaint charges Devell Conley, 31, of New Haven, with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin and fentanyl, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment.

HARTFORD >> The state saw a 13 percent drop in the number of homeless on the street or in shelters from last year and the lowest total homeless population recorded since 2007, according to new data released by the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.

NEW HAVEN >> Xiomaira Tristanis, 15, is the subject of a Silver Alert.Xiomaira is a white female with black hair and brown eyes.She stands 5-feet-6 and weighs about 160 pounds.Xiomaira was last seen with blue and green highlights in her hair. A clothing description was not provided.

NEW HAVEN >> James Hoyne, who relies on a feeding tube because he was born with an incomplete esophagus, says there's "one thing that drives me nuts."That's when people assume that his parents didn't feed him when he was a baby or "force me to eat earlier."Of course, that wasn't the case.

NEW HAVEN >> Teresa Sandall, 41, is the subject of a Silver Alert.Sandall is a white female with brown hair and brown eyes.She stands 5-feet-3 and weighs about 213 pounds.Sandall was last seen wearing a neon and black and white shirt with black and white pajama pants. No photo of Sandall was provided.

NEW HAVEN >> Residents of Morris Cove might want to take a look out the window; if news organization Climate Central's prediction of sea levels rising 4 feet is correct, the area could be underwater within the next 83 years.Sara Beland, a math student with a concentration in applied mathematics at Southern Connecticut State University, has a more conservative estimate for how much sea levels will rise by 2100 in the Elm City at minimum: 10 inches to 13 inches.

HARTFORD >> A federal jury Thursday awarded a New Jersey man $20 million in his civil lawsuit accusing Daniel Greer, a prominent New Haven rabbi, real estate developer and founder of an Orthodox Jewish school of sexually abusing him for years while he attended Greer's yeshiva.The verdict was read at 3:40 p.

HARTFORD, Conn. >> A Yale University dean has been placed on leave over offensive reviews she made on Yelp, including one in which she refers to customers of a local restaurant as "white trash."Pierson College Dean June Chu issued a public apology Saturday after reviews from her personal Yelp account began circulating at the Ivy League school.

NEW HAVEN>> Fratricide by blacks is something that pains Michael Jefferson. Jefferson, 52, a community activist and criminal defense attorney believes violence by blacks against other blacks stems from self-hatred. As part of his work to end this, Jefferson this week kicked off the "Respect for Life" campaign, which is one of the