Metropolitan Business Academy senior Bayan Albakkour took the bus Wednesday morning not to school, but to the state's capital city, where she delivered a message to the Connecticut legislature ...

A week and a day after a fire displaced dozens of tenants from a now-city-condemned Chapel Street apartment building, Christopher Schroeder began moving his belongings -- including box after box of ...

Frakl’s report is one of several dramatic rescues documented in the incident report. (The Independent received the report in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The cause of the fire is ...

Mother Bertha Lee Stokes Holden was born in Dumas, Arkansas on July 30, 1932, to the late Bertha and Charlie Stokes. She slept away into eternal rest on February 22, 2026, while in her home.

After relocating to New Haven, Mary married Thomas Ford, and together they raised five children: Darryl Ford, Bernie Ford (Bridgette), Tymus Ford, Thomasina Lewis, and Marcus Ford (predeceased). Mary ...

On Monday, Feb. 23, during the largest blizzard in recent memory, the New Haven Pride Center (NHPC) announced a “ceasing of normal operations,” and it closed on Wednesday, Feb. 25 with no clear plan ...

The Friends’ book is a punchy first declaration of the goals and context of what they are calling the Attention Liberation Movement. Advertisers, social media, and a biased scientific field, they ...