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A member of the Yale community has tested presumptive positive for coronavirus and another two people are being evaluated. Yale officials said a member of their community tested positive for COVID-19 on a preliminary test. Another community member and a household contact are also undergoing diagnostic evaluations. Officials said they are waiting for the test results for all three people,…

Part of Yale New Haven Hospital was evacuated Monday night when a man came into the hospital and threw a towel at an employee, saying it was “chemical warfare,” according to emergency officials, and police continue to look for him.

Officials say 50 people have been charged with disorderly conduct after a protest interrupted a football game between archrivals Harvard and Yale.

New Jersey teen Ziad Ahmed opted out of the traditional college essay and instead wrote “#blacklivesmatter” 100 times on his Stanford application. To his surprise, Stanford accepted.

State police have arrested Devin Eaton, a Hamden police officer, in connection with a police-involved shooting that injured a woman in New Haven in April. Eaton has been charged with one count of assault in the first degree and two counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree for the shooting early on the morning of April 16 that injured...

An investigation is underway after anti-Semitic graffiti was found alongside the word “Trump” at the Yale Law School Sunday.

Elite universities are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a federal program that shields young immigrants from deportation.

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang opposes impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of new allegations of sexual misconduct from the justice’s time in college, Yang told necn’s “Primary Source” Tuesday. Some Democrats believe that the new allegation, detailed in The New York Times this weekend, indicates that Kavanaugh lied under oath during a Supreme Court confirmation hearing, which...

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

An investigation has concluded that a Yale University psychiatry professor sexually assaulted five students at a research facility on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and committed sexual misconduct against at least eight others.

In the dense and crowded world of art, it’s difficult to imagine a single artist making as big an impact on any medium as tattoo artist Ed Hardy, who through a long and varied career, made his mark on the flesh of the art world.

An 8-year-old boy was taken to the hospital after he was shot while in a home in New Haven late Friday night.

A program in D.C. helps immigrant high school students of East African heritage find the right college for them and fill out the best application, and it has helped more than 100 students get into some of the top schools in the country, including Harvard, Yale and MIT.

Last Election Day, long lines for same-day voter registration at New Haven City Hall caused such chaos some people were unable to vote. Now Yale University is offering a space on campus to help shorten those long lines and prevent future problems.

A 9-year-old boy who shot in New Haven last Tuesday night has been released from hte hospital after being there for around a week.

The former men’s tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin admitted Wednesday to accepting a $100,000 bribe in a wide-ranging college admissions bribery scheme and has agreed to cooperate with authorities investigating the high-profile case. Michael Center, 55, is the third coach to plead guilty in the nationwide scandal that has also ensnared wealthy parents, including executives and...

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin appeared in Boston federal court on Wednesday to face charges that they participated in a wide-ranging college admissions cheating scam. The actresses, along with Loughlin’s fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli and dozens of others, were charged last month in a scheme in which authorities say parents paid an admissions consultant to bribe college coaches and...

A Hot Pockets heiress, a Napa Valley winemaker and a former Wynn Resorts executive were among the parents who faced a judge in Boston federal court Friday for allegedly bribing their children’s way into elite universities as part of a nationwide college cheating scandal. The 15 parents made initial appearances in court for their alleged participation in the scheme. Authorities...

The former women’s soccer coach at Yale University has pleaded guilty to taking bribes in exchange for pretending that applicants were recruits for his team. Rudy Meredith pleaded guilty in Boston federal court on Thursday to wire fraud and conspiracy charges. He is the third person to plead guilty in the wide-ranging school admissions scandal in which authorities say parents...

The college admissions scam that has landed dozens of parents and even Hollywood stars in trouble all stemmed from a tip in an unrelated case. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, a defendant in a securities fraud case, Morrie Tobin, had information about a bribery scheme involving the Yale women’s soccer coach, which ultimately caused the entire admissions...