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The implicit message, delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended last week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.

Were the tests job-related? That is where you have to start when considering the case of whether white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were discriminated against when the city dumped a set of promotional exams after no African-American firefighter scored highly enough to be promoted.

A New Haven officer was struck by a motorcycle on Thursday according to police. Police said Officer Matthew Abbate was attempting to stop a group of motorcycles for moving violations when they went toward the dead-end of Hamilton Street.

The Supreme Court handed down a headline-grabbing decision on Monday on a subject steeped in emotion and controversy a ' race-based job discrimination.

Amy Speace is no stranger to rejection. Already a seasoned actress, playwright and director in New York City's cutthroat theater scene, she started a music career from scratch.

Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a Hamden couple who defrauded the federal Food Stamp Program were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court.

Two brothers were arrested in connecticut with the murder of Christopher Senior on Sept.

The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought.

This Monday, in the New Haven, Conn., firefighters case Ricci v. DeStefano , the Supreme Court held that it's unlawful race discrimination for an employer to refuse to act on the results of a promotion exam because the test eliminated a disproportionate number of minority candidates .

The Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, the case of the New Haven, Conn., firefighters, was a ringing endorsement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964's ban on racial discrimination and a repudiation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the Second Circuit Appeals Court.

AP - President Barack Obama said the Supreme Court is "moving the ball" on affirmative action.

A Connecticut partnership has bought six nursing homes in the state that have been operating in receivership because of Marathon Healthcare's bankruptcy filing.

Taken too far, efforts to fix past racial discrimination tip over into reverse discrimination.

The Supreme Court's reversal Monday of a discrimination ruling involving a group of white Connecticut firefighters has provided critics of high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with some fresh ammunition.

Here we are, with another installment of One Man s Opinion . And I want to start off by apologizing to the American Chronicle as well as my readers for not writing for so long.

Monday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Ricci v. DiStefano is supposed to be a lot of things.

New Haven police are investigating two separate shootings in which three people have been wounded.

Frank Ricci, left, lead plaintiff in the the "New Haven 20" firefighter reverse discrimination case speaks to the media outside of Federal Court in New Haven, Conn., on Monday after the Supreme Court ruled that white firefighters were unfairly denied promotions.

In the midst of pretty balanced ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscast stories on the Ricci reverse discrimination case involving New Haven firefighters, who were victorious, one quibble: CBS's Wyatt Andrews framed the ruling as issued by the Supreme Court's a oeconservativea justices and opposed not by liberals but by a oecivil rights leaders,a as if ...

The city decided in 2004 to reject the results of a firefighters' promotion exam not because of federal law, but to placate a key supporter of Mayor John DeStefano, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote in an opinion Monday.