A Connecticut jury has acquitted a man who was accused of killing a high school athlete during a fight at a house party

Most violent crime is at its lowest rate in New Haven, according to police data from the past 10 years. Compared to statistics from 2024, police are seeing a huge drop in non-fatal shootings and confirmed shots fired.

Dwayne Claud Singh, a 37-year-old Jamaican citizen living in New Haven, is charged with illegally returning to the U.S. after having been previously deported.

Janita Phillips, a Florida woman who killed her infant son in Connecticut in 1986 and went on to live a normal life with her family, was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation.

A prosecutor said the suspect killed a man and all he got for it was "a pair of Slim Jims and a pack of cookies."

Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, delays in forensic testing are stalling prosecutions, stretching court calendars and forcing impossible choices about what gets tested — and what doesn’t.

A woman who killed her infant son in 1986 in Connecticut and went on to live a seemingly quiet, normal life with her family in Florida for three decades was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation.

Duchitanga, 39, of Ecuador is federally charged with illegally reentering the United States again after being deported.

Joseph Czuba, who was sentenced for the 2023 hate-crime murder of a young Palestinian American boy has died in prison, authorities said.