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UpdatedThu, May 13, 2021 at 3:52 pm CT Reply David J. Cottrell Jr., 31, sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison, has been held in federal custody at the Metropolitan Corrections Center in Chicago since 2018. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) CHICAGO — A judge on Tuesday sentenced a Park Ridge native who admitted blackmailing girls over the internet to produce videos and images of child sexual exploitation to 27 years in federal prison. David J. Cottrell Jr., 31, who most recently lived with his mother in Niles, pleaded guilty last year and has been awaiting sentencing ever since. His sente...

Tweed New Haven airport announces $70 million expansion Thomas Breen :: New Haven Independent Avports CEO Jorge Roberts, right, with Sean Scanlon, said his company will invest $70 million in the improvements. Tweed New Haven is embarking on a $70 million privately funded expansion, with a new four-gate, 74,000 square-foot terminal and daily service from a new airline. The announcement marks a new chapter in the decades-long saga of the quest of New Haven business leaders to increase air travel from the city in the hope of luring more employers, and against the concerns of neighbors and enviro...

New Haven Schools Superintendent Iline Tracy. New Haven’s typically cash-strapped school system has a big challenge, and a big opportunity: Figuring out how to spend $136 million in pandemic-induced federal relief over the next few years without getting hooked on the short-term dough. New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) Superintendent Iline Tracey, Asst. Superintendent Keisha Redd-Hannans, and soon-to-depart Chief Financial Officer Phillip Penn described that surprise conundrum last week during the latest aldermanic Finance Committee budget workshop. The Finance Committee will host one more p...

Closely followed Woodbridge zoning case enters new phase After six months of public hearings on a widely followed Woodbridge rezoning proposal, commissioners are to start deliberating. Is multi-family housing in the suburbs a civil rights issue? Or a matter of water and sewer access? Or is the idea of an environment-housing “balance” an excuse for avoiding necessary systemic change? Woodbridge Town Planning & Zoning Commissioners will confront those questions next month as a lengthy dispute over the leafy New Haven suburb’s zoning laws moves into a new phase. On Monday night, the commis...

Rep. Robyn Porter, D-New Haven (right) and Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury (left) Lisa Marquis caught COVID-19 last November and has been unable to return to her job as a nursing home aide since then. And as the clock ticks on her health benefits, and her financial stability, Marquis and many others are watching as Connecticut lawmakers grapple with the ultimate balancing test. Do they leave the burden of compensating thousands of workers who potentially contracted COVID-19 through their jobs to the workers’ compensation system — and risk crippling numerous businesses in the process? Do the...