In USA
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David Gregory: By Reopening Investigation, FBI Director 'Allowed Himself to be Injected' Into Campaign
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former Meet the Press anchor David Gregory appeared on CNN, Friday, to deride the FBI Director for his “unprecedented” move to reexamine Hillary Clinton’s e-mail controversy.
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Wardrobe whoopsies: On purpose, or an accident?
Sometimes stars want to cringe with embarrassment. Other times, they just want attention.
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"Healthy From Day One" Gains Momentum
You’ve heard of dialing 9-1-1 in a police emergency.
And there used to be, in New Haven, a 3-1-1 non-emergency number for city services from fixing potholes to figuring out the mystery of an abandoned boat beside the roadway. (Then SeeClickFix replaced it for city offices.)
Now there’s 2-1-1 to provide new streamlined access, resources, and connecting young parents to what they specifically need for kids — and their families — to be healthy in the developmentally crucial early years of life.
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Pedestrian Walkways Planned
Yale University plans to convert portions of two Downtown city streets that it purchased from the city five years ago into 18-foot-wide pedestrian walkways lined with shrubs and flowers.
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State Fines Trash Operator $18,700
The operator of a controversial Middletown Avenue transfer station promises to clean up its act and pay an $18,700 fine under a consent order with the state.
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Cops' Phone Line Down
The police department’s non-emergency phone line (203-946-6316) is not working Tuesday morning.
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Amazon starts Amazon Key delivery to car trunks for Prime members
A new, free program for Prime members lets Amazon drivers unlock a customer's trunk and leave their packages there rather on their doorstep.
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Privately run prisoner transport company kept detainee shackled for 18 days in human waste, lawsuit alleges
The increasing privatization of prisoner extradition can jeopardize the civil rights of the incarcerated as well as innocent individuals.
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Southwest has been faced with fines, union safety complaints
DALLAS (AP) -- Southwest Airlines runs its planes hard. They make many short hops and more trips per day than other U.S. airliners, which adds to wear and tear on parts, including the engines....
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Former Christie allies: Bridge realignment didn't break law
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The tales of political vendettas and back-room machinations that animated the 2013 George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal were replaced Tuesday with comparatively dry legal arguments as two former associates of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued before a federal appeals court to have their convictions overturned....
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Fort Worth gang member to die for killing girl, grandmother
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Ice cream and slices of a Hannah Montana-themed birthday cake were being served at a 9-year-old girl's party outside a Fort Worth apartment when a man dressed in black got out of a car, grabbed a laser-sighted semi-automatic rifle from the trunk and opened fire....
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Investigators: School design contributed to massacre
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (AP) -- Faulty classroom design and failures in the police radio and 911 systems contributed to the chaos and deaths during the recent Florida high school massacre, a commission investigating the shooting was told at its first meeting Tuesday....