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FBI Sifts Trash for Clues to Missing Yalie

Investigators hope for hints in lab garbage

(Newser) - The FBI began investigating today a Hartford trash facility for any clues to the disappearance of Yale student Annie Le, the Hartford Courant reports. A spokesman says the FBI is looking for evidence in garbage from a New Haven laboratory where Le was last seen. Investigators have also started reviewing...

Bloody Clothes Linked to Missing Yale Student

Officials deny reports that Annie Le's body was found

(Newser) - Investigators have found bloody clothes tucked in a ceiling at Yale near where missing student Annie Le was last seen, the New Haven Register reports. Declaring the building a crime scene, officials held a news conference today and denied reports that the 24-year-old doctoral student's body had also been found....

Yale Professor Quizzed Over Missing Student

One of Annie Le's professors abruptly canceled class around the time she vanished

(Newser) - A Yale professor has been interviewed by police over the disappearance of graduate student Annie Marie Le, New York Daily News reports. Le was due to attend the professor's class on Tuesday but it was abruptly canceled and Le was found to be missing hours later. The cancellation so close...

Yale Grad Student Disappears Days Before Wedding

Cops see no evidence of foul play involving Annie Le, missing since Tuesday

(Newser) - A Yale graduate student due to be married on Sunday hasn’t been seen since Tuesday, the university’s Daily News reports. Video shows Annie Marie Le, 24, entering a building on the New Haven, Conn., campus, but there’s no evidence of her leaving. Authorities say her fiancé, family...

Tossed Ruling No Rebuke to Sotomayor: Dems

Firefighter decision shows judicial 'modesty'

(Newser) - Democrats are struggling to paint the Supreme Court’s rejection today of an opinion by nominee Sonia Sotomayor as proof that she is, in fact, not an “activist judge,” Roll Call reports. The high court decided to reverse Sotomayor’s 2nd Circuit ruling against white New Haven firefighters...

White Firefighters' Bias Claims Head to High Court

Conn. team complained after promotion test dumped

(Newser) - Hoping to become lieutenants, 77 New Haven firefighters took a promotion test—but when none of the 19 black firefighters qualified, the city jettisoned the results. Their hopes dashed, 17 white firefighters sued the city for racial discrimination, and the case is now set for the Supreme Court. It marks...

Recession Shutters Famed Yale Club

Mory's has closed until further notice

(Newser) - Mory's, a legendary Yale University eating and drinking club that traces its roots to the Civil War—and whose membership includes two presidents named Bush—is the latest victim of the recession. A list of patrons that has included the likes of Al Pacino, Tom Hanks, and Jodie Foster hasn't...

Hillary Tears Up Again
Hillary Tears Up Again

Hillary Tears Up Again

Genuine conviction or tactical display?

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton choked up on the campaign trail again today, the Chicago Tribune reports, and dabbed at her left eye during a moving introduction by an old friend in New Haven. Her old boss was describing his pride that the bell-bottomed woman he knew was now a presidential candidate. "...

Feds Arrest 29 Illegals in New Haven

Raid follows controversial ID cards for undocumented immigrants

(Newser) - Immigration agents arrested 29 illegal immigrants in New Haven on Wednesday, two days after the city OKed a new program to give municipal ID cards to illegals. The Mayor was skeptical of the timing, suggesting the feds targeted the city politically. "There are in America 11,000 cities, towns...

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