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Stratford :"Thank you for pointing this out Kevin. We should be rewarding the sucessful school and creating incentives for the lower performing schools.

An attorney representing one of the East Haven police officers charged in a federal racial bias case has asked for the charges to be dismissed because of the media circus he says prosecutors have created.

The lawyer for one of the four East Haven Police officers indicted last month for alleged civil rights violations against Latino residents has argued the charges "look flimsy, like a trumped up set of allegations," and has asked for the case against his client to be dismissed.

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2011 file photo, Alla Dzhioyeva who claimed victory in South Ossetia's presidential election in November, stands in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia.

East Haven's school buses could soon find themselves without drivers if stalled contract negotiations between the drivers' union and the bus company that employs them continues to falter.

Under a new proposal put forward by Gov. Dannel Malloy to reform education , the East Haven School District would recieve some $489,867 in additional education funding for fiscal 2012-13. Under the proposed 2 012-2013 Education Cost Sharing funding, East Haven would receive $19,253,992, or 2.61 percent increase, according to the town funding list ... (more)

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His vacation from civic club duties is officially over, but Gary Gambardella will resume his fundraising and charitable activities as a member of a different Rotary Club.

Milford: "Hello?!?!?!? Approving this facility and its expansion would be so wrong in so many ways.

East Haven, Conn. - Tropical Storm Irene really did a number on the shoreline of Connecticut this past summer and left many people in a great state of need, but what one local man did in the grueling days that followed has earned him presidential honors.

Isaiah Freeman, 20, of 140 Mill St., Apt. C, East Haven was arrested at about 4 a.m. this morning on an active arrest warrant, which stemmed from a November robbery on Orchard Terrace.

Naugatuck police arrested the second suspect Wednesday wanted in connection with a daytime robbery on Orchard Terrace last November .

The state is reviewing East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo's request for reinstatement of his approximately $40,000-a-year firefighter's disability pension, which was rescinded after Maturo was elected to the mayor's post.

Less than two weeks after former police chief Leonard Gallo resigned, the town is set to name a former Stamford chief to lead its scandal-ridden department on an interim basis.

Newtown is shopping around for a new buyer after newly elected East Haven officials pulled the plug on the purchase of eight portable classrooms left over from the Newtown High School expansion project, officials said.

Anonymous from New Haven said, "Everybody's making a big deal about the Mayor of East Haven, over one word that he said...what about the Mayor in New Haven, keeps raising taxes just to satisfy the policing areas.

Hamden : "OMG no parent should bury their children. I know I lost my son at 2 . Such an empty feeling and a pain that will never ever go away.

A pickup truck used in the apparent vandalism of a sign calling for the resignation of Mayor Joseph Maturo is registered to a Bridgeport address, according to a report in the New Haven Register.

A federal judge in Connecticut says she will delay a civil trial in a discrimination case against East Haven police until after similar criminal cases are concluded against four officers charged with violating the rights of Latinos.

Mike Katz Jr. grew up in the gym business and has been working in it for most of his life.A The five Planet Fitness health clubA franchises he owns with his father and their business partner-with locations in North Have n, Branford , Guilford, Hamden and East Haven -make them the biggest gym operators in the New Haven region.