A judge in New Haven sentenced a 31-year-old man to death Friday for his role in a deadly home invasion that killed a woman and her two daughters in 2007.
Black detectives in the New York City Police Department's Intelligence Division filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging racial discrimination in NYPD hiring and promotion practices.
Ernesto Zedillo said in a court filing Friday that his status as Mexico's former president gives him immunity from being prosecuted for a massacre in 1997 that left 45 people dead in a Chiapas village.
The driver of a U-Haul truck that struck and killed a woman and injured two others outside Yale University's football stadium Saturday passed a field sobriety test issued after the accident, New Haven, Connecticut, police said Sunday.
One woman was killed and two others injured Saturday after a U-Haul van crashed into them outside Yale University's football stadium before the game against Harvard, authorities said.
Joshua Komisarjevsky faces the death penalty for the triple-homicide in Connecticut
A close friend of a woman who was killed -- along with her two daughters -- during a 2007 home invasion said she hopes that an upcoming trial gives a feeling of peace and justice for residents of the quiet Connecticut town where the incident occurred.
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After seven years of wrangling in a case that altered workplace discrimination law, 20 firefighters will receive a $2 million payout from the city of New Haven, Connecticut.
You've mastered the playdate, but now it's time for the date-date. If you're feeling nervous or confused about entering the complex world of dating again, you're not alone.
One hardly need look at the numbers to know that talk of the Royal Wedding is accelerating rapidly ahead of the April 29 event.
The president of Yale University announced new steps Friday in the wake of a federal sexual harassment probe at the school, including creating an external committee of former graduates and facilitating informal chats between administrators and students.
Yale University will launch a new committee on sexual misconduct following the initiation of a federal investigation prompted by a complaint over a series of sexually based allegations on the prestigious New Haven, Connecticut, campus.
Sixteen Yale students and alumni filed suit saying there was a "hostile sexual environment" on campus.
Yale University is under federal investigation after a complaint was filed that claims it's policies have allowed a "sexually hostile environment" to exist on campus, officials said.
Raymond Clark III will receive a 44-year sentence for the 2009 strangulation of Annie Le
Jury selection began Wednesday in the murder trial of a second Connecticut man accused of killing a mother and two daughters during a 2007 home invasion.
A Yale lab technician charged in the strangling murder of a Yale graduate student less than a week before she was to be married plans to plead guilty, his attorney said Wednesday.
The second man to be tried for a deadly home invasion in Connecticut has asked a court to accept a guilty plea on the condition he would be spared the death penalty.
The man accused of being the so-called "East Coast Rapist" casually spoke with authorities about his arrest, asking, "What took you so long to get me?" a prosecutor said Monday.
A 39-year-old man suspected in a series of rapes appears in a Connecticut court. WFSB reports.
The man accused of being the East Coast Rapist tried to hang himself in his jail cell Saturday, police said, one day after he was arrested thanks to DNA from a tossed cigarette butt and an anonymous tip.
A man is arrested in the "East Coast Rapist" case and accused of sexually assaulting at least 17 women in four states.
Days after launching a manhunt along highways and online for the so-called East Coast Rapist, Connecticut police on Friday took into custody a man they claim is behind sexual assaults on at least 17 women in four states.
A Connecticut man will go on trial for murder not far from where a mother and two daughters were killed in a 2007 home invasion, after a judge on Monday denied the defendant's bid to move the proceedings.
Jury selection will begin in March for the second man charged in a brutal 2007 home invasion in which a Connecticut mother and her two daughters were killed.
More than 100 million people are expected to tune in to Super Bowl XLV this weekend, but only some of them are football fans.
Chef Gary Donlick from Bistro Niko in Atlanta shows you how to make easy delicious dishes for your Super Bowl party.
His mother fist convinced him to try acting, and now, at 94, he's honored by his peers
Storms cause a gas station canopy to collapse in St. Petersburg, Florida, trapping a woman in her car.
Authorities diverted a passenger plane to New York after lightning struck the aircraft, a US Airways spokeswoman said.
In a rare diversion during a case that has seen heart-wrenching testimony, a Connecticut judge on Monday chastised a juror for passing a note to a court marshal asking him for a date.
For three weeks, Dr. William Petit went to a courtroom and re-lived the day he was attacked and his wife and daughters were killed in their Connecticut home.
Jurors are expected to resume their deliberations Tuesday morning in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.
Closing arguments were made in the Connecticut murder trial. CNN's Randi Kaye takes a closer look at the home invasion case.
Closing arguments were made Friday in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.
A home invasion case that left a wife and her two daughters dead is about to go to the jury in Connecticut.
Testimony in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion, ended Tuesday.
Steven Hayes -- the man accused of the high-profile of killing of three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion -- has been a convicted felon since 1980, his criminal record shows.
"It has been a long and painful process," say Dr. William Petit and his family
"You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible, and competitive." --Stanley Druckenmiller
State and local governments are facing a vicious cycle thanks to our financial crisis. Since home prices haven't really recovered, tax revenues are down. Since tax revenues are down, governments are cutting jobs, which means cutting services to homeowners. That means governments are spending less money in their communities, and employing less people, perpetuating the decline in property values that caused tax revenues to decrease in the first place.
From its peak in late April to the close last Friday, the S&P 500 has declined just over 12%. That is a correction of real historical magnitude. Stock markets around the globe have mirrored this move, if not exceeded it. Pundits have justified the correction primarily on the sovereign debt issues in Europe. But the question for stock market operators is, as always, what's next?
With Rand Paul's victory last week in the Republican primary in Kentucky, the Tea Party has instantly earned, if not mainstream status, at least a seat at the table of national discussion. Paul galvanized that in his victory speech when he said, "I have a message, a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words: We have come to take our government back."
One of the most popular debates in global macro circles currently relates to China and whether its economy is in a bubble. On the side of the bubble callers is one of the more successful short sellers of our generation, James Chanos. Admittedly, Chanos is usually on the right side of these big calls and, for the time being, I'm not going to debate him. Great Chinese bubble debate aside for now, how does Chanos's theory hold up in light of the data we've been reviewing?
If you're in New York City with only $10 in your pocket, Julio Ortiz-Teissonniere has you covered.
Whether the American economy is in an inflationary or deflationary environment sounds like it should be a fundamental and settled question. But due to the unprecedented financial crisis, the answer is actually subject to intense debate among economists.
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