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Yale Honors Black Fourth-Grader Reported to Police As She Sprayed Lantern Flies
The Yale School of Public Health honored a 9-year-old Black girl, Bobbi Wilson, for her efforts to curb the invasive spotted lantern fly after a neighbor reported to her police as she sprayed flies in her hometown of Caldwell, New Jersey.
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These Are New England's Best Dive Bars as Ranked by Yelp — Though 1 Isn't Quite a Bar…
Ranking the best bars in New England is always difficult — there are so many to choose from — but Yelp has a new list of the best one in each state. The list, using data through Oct. 17, ranks businesses identified as dive bars “using a number of factors including the total volume and ratings of reviews,” according to…
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Police Investigate Suspected Hate Crime After Attack Near Yale Campus
Yale Police say the search is on for whoever attacked a Hispanic man in what’s being called a suspected hate crime. It left him seriously hurt and it happened in a spot surrounded by the Yale campus. “It’s kind of frightening,” said Arantxa Galvan, a Yale sophomore. Students learned in a message from the university’s police chief that a...
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Yale Bomb Threat Calls Prompt Several Building Evacuations; University Back to Normal Operations
Several buildings at Yale University in New Haven were evacuated and police are investigating after receiving calls about bombs being placed in several buildings, according to an alert sent to staff. Several buildings on the Yale University campus were evacuated, and several streets in the downtown New Haven area were closed. As of 7 p.m., Yale Police and New Haven…
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Police Investigating Racist, Anti-Semitic Graffiti at Yale
Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti was found inside a building on the Yale University campus and police are investigating. Yale chief of police, Ronnell Higgins, said in a message to the university community that there was a recent pair of incidents of racist and anti-Semitic graffiti at the Kline Biology Tower, which is closed and under construction. “I am outraged…