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Award Nominated Dubai artist Tomi Thomas drops his video on Vevo for his second single of EP called The Renaissance
"Freedom" the feeling described by Tomi Thomas when asked about what this soulful track titled "The Renaissance" means to him as it is the second video release off the Patience EP, with Ready Or Not climbing charts internationally there can headway for "The Renaissance" which was shot in Dubai was directed by Kamil Roxas @Kamilroxas, Tomi Thomas @tomithomas_los, and produced by Urbanmass @urbanmassintl
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New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp will welcome Governor Malloy back to New Haven Thursday afternoon to announce completion of the new State Street Bridge. Members of the press are encouraged to cover this event.
The former span, built in 1920 to carry State Street across the Mill River, had deteriorated beyond repair and was closed in 2009 to allow for construction of the new bridge. Design and other support costs were borne by the city; construction costs were shared by the state and federal governments.
WHO: Mayor Harp, Governor Malloy, Department of Transportation Commissioner James Redeker
WHAT: Press conference about opening the new State Street Bridge
WHEN: Thursday, August 13, 2015; 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Fair Haven side of the State Street Bridge; New Haven
**NOTE: For GPS, use 1175 State Street in New Haven, which is close to where the event will be held
WHAT: News conference announcing a local initiative to provide $15,000 down payment assistance grants for eligible homebuyers in New Haven, East Haven and West Haven through Wells Fargo’s HomeLIFTSM. Media is invited to tour property and hear from homebuyers taking advantage of this program.
The cities of New Haven, East Haven and West Haven, NeighborWorks America® and its network members Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven are working collaboaratively with Wells Fargo Bank to implement the $4.75 million program.
Additional eligibility and registration information will be provided at news conference.
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015
11:00 a.m.
WHERE: 15 Lilac Street, New Haven, CT 06511
WHO: Joe Kirk, NY/CT Region President, EVP, Wells Fargo
The Honorable Mayor Toni Harp, City of New Haven
The Honorable Mayor Edward M. O’Brien, City of West Haven
TBA, Town of East Haven
Eileen Anderson, NeighborWorks America
James Paley, Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven
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New Haven – City officials today announced a planned two-week closure of the Grand Avenue Bridge beginning Monday, August 17th. The closure is to allow for preventative maintenance and routine repairs.
The scheduled work will consist of replacing linkages and mechanical components related to the wedge-type locking system that fixes the bridge into place, allowing for the safe crossing of vehicular traffic. City officials say these components must be replaced periodically to prevent failure, which would then require a much longer closure and resulting inconvenience.
The Grand Avenue Bridge will remain open to pedestrian traffic throughout the planned repairs, scheduled to be completed by Friday, August 28th.
The city’s Department of Transportation, Traffic, and Parking is working to coordinate traffic signals along alternate routes (map attached) and the New Haven Police Department is planning to have a uniform presence in the area to help alleviate any traffic congestion that may develop.
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8 August, 2015 – THE NHPD RECOGNIZES HERO OFFICER
The last time fifty-six year old Albert Sanford was seen was on Tuesday, July 14th. He wouldn’t be reported missing until Friday despite having missed a dialysis appointment on Monday.
At 6:55 PM, Officer Christian Bruckhart was called to the Valley Street home of the missing man by his eighty-seven year old mother, Gloria Washington and his ex-wife, Linda Kendall. They’d filed a missing person report a few hours earlier but had new information for Police.
The women told the Officer they’d spotted his car parked at the upper Whalley Avenue Burger King – a clue that would lead Officer Bruckhart on a mission to find the missing gentleman.
Officer Bruckhart spoke with the manager of the restaurant in hopes of finding out more. She said she remembered seeing Mr. Sanford on Tuesday at about 2:00 PM. She said he left the restaurant on foot because he claimed he’d lost his car keys. He told her he had a spare key at home and was setting off to retrieve it. She said she saw him heading east on Whalley Avenue and “looked sick”.
Officer Michael Valente and Patrick Bengston joined Officer Bruckhart and the three set off to search for the missing man. They headed out on foot from East Ramsdell Street to the Valley Street Townhouses. They searched the wooded area on either side of Emerson Street and from there toward Blake Street.
Night fell and the steep embankments made further searching difficult. A stream that runs the length of the gully in the middle of the wooded area made searching in the dark quite dangerous. Officer Bruckhart contacted area hospitals and was told they would inform him should Mr. Sanford show up. Officer Bruckhart called the dialysis center, but there was no answer. They’d closed for the day.
Officer Bruckhart issued a Silver Alert and should have been finishing his reports before heading in at the end of his shift. He should have been but couldn’t. He knew the missing man was most likely in the woods and knew he’d been without life preserving medical treatments for days.
Officer Bruckhart started searching again.
At 10:30 PM, Officer Bruckhart found Albert Sanford in a culvert about fifty yards into a wooded area near Dayton Street across from the CVS Drugstore. Thankfully, he was alive and although disoriented, he was physically well. He said he’d been trapped there since Tuesday. Officer Bruckhart summoned the expert assistance of a squad from the NHFD to pull him from the culvert.
Mr. Sanford was taken by ambulance to the hospital for an evaluation. The Silver Alert was cancelled.
Officer Bruckhart drove to the hospital where he spoke a bit more with Mr. Sanford. Now comfortable in a hospital gown and on a soft gurney, Sanford told Officer Bruckhart he had no recollection of being at the Burger King but remembered entering the woods. He said he’d been cutting through there for “eons”, but that the trail was so covered by overgrown foliage, he’d gotten lost. He said as much as he tried, he couldn’t find his way back to the road.
The relieved Officer’s last words in his police report; “I advised him not to use the trails in the woods anymore”.
Officer Christian Bruckhart spent the first five years of his policing career serving the town of Wallingford, CT.
He was hired by New Haven on March 31, 2014. He has recently been assigned to the department’s narcotics Enforcement Unit.
8 August, 2015 – ARMED WOULD-BE ROBBER ARRESTED AFTER CHASE
At 1:14 AM, a twenty-six year old man (who appears and identifies himself as a woman) hailed Officer Hugo Villacres Jr. as he drove down Grand Avenue near Ferry Street. He told him a man with a gun tried robbing him of his cellular telephone but he got away. The man told the Officer that he’d been approached by a heavy-set black man who said to him, “How much do you charge”? He said he was waiting for a friend, at which point the man tried taking his cell phone which was partially tucked into his shirt.
She described the would-be robber to the Officer who in turn broadcast it to colleagues in the area. Officer Jason Santiago was patrolling nearby and spotted a suspect. The suspect spotted him and took off running. The Officer ran after him. The suspect threw down a handgun. The Officer tackled the suspect. The gun was recovered. It was in fact a BB gun.
The victim positively identified Charles Capers (picture attached) (4-24-1986), of Chelsea Street in Stratford, CT, as his attacker.
He was arrested and charged with criminal attempt to commit robbery in the third degree, criminal attempt to commit larceny in the second degree, possession of a facsimile firearm and interfering with Police.
Note: An earlier unrelated report of a minor assault involving Caspers is being investigated. He is accused by someone else, about an hour earlier, of slapping them and that he was armed with “some type of gun” when the incident happened.
8 August, 2015 – COUPLE ARRESTED IN DOMESTIC ASSAULT
At 8:50 AM, Officers were dispatched to 181 Winthrop Avenue after a couple’s heated argument turned violent.
Kenneth Johnson (4-4-1992), of Butler Street in New Haven, and Jamilah Jackson (4-9-1989), of Winthrop Avenue in New Haven, are boyfriend and girlfriend. Jackson told Officer Paul Cavalier that the two started arguing over her presumption Johnson was involved with another woman. The dispute reportedly escalated when, according to Jackson, she was punched and choked by Johnson. She said she armed herself with a kitchen knife and drove it into Johnson’s left leg. She gave the Officer the knife.
Johnson (picture attached) reported it was he that was the victim – that Jackson (picture attached) started the argument over the alleged other woman and that it was she that escalated the argument to violence.
Jackson was treated at the scene by EMTs for injuries to her lips and hands. Johnson was taken by ambulance to Yale – New Haven Hospital to be treated for his leg wound. It is not life-threatening.
Both combatants were arrested. Johnson was charged with assault in the second degree, breach of peace in the second degree and strangulation in the third degree. Jackson was charged with assault in the first degree and breach of peace.
9 August, 2015 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
At 12:42 AM, Officers were summoned to the Emergency Department at Yale – New Haven Hospital’s St. Raphael’s campus after a man arrived seeking treatment for a gunshot wound.
The victim, thirty year old Lemar McCullough told Officers he’d walked from his Lexington Avenue home to his girlfriend’s house in Hamden and then to another acquaintance’s home on George Street when along the way he was confronted by a black man who said, “Don’t move” and shot him in his leg.
McCullough said he walked to the hospital. He said the man who shot him stood under six feet tall and was heavy-set.
Officers searched the area. No evidence of the shooting was found – ballistic or otherwise. No reports of gunfire were phoned in and no one in the area reported hearing the shot. There were no ShotSpotter activations.
9 August, 2015 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
At 12:45 AM, a woman entered the Woodward Avenue Police Sub-Station and reported a fight and gunfire occurring at that moment at the nearby Fireside Bar, located at 810 Woodward Avenue.
Officers arrived quickly and learned a fight had erupted inside. They reported that staff members pushed the fighters outside and did not phone Police. Moments later, gunfire erupted.
At 2:17 AM, twenty-four year old Kevin Crouch, of Shelton Street in Bridgeport, CT, walked into the Emergency Department at Yale – New Haven Hospital. Hospital staff phoned Police and Detectives responded. The victim said he was at the Fireside Bar when he heard gunshots. He said that as he ran with the crowd, he was shot in the ankle. He drove himself to the hospital. His wound is minor – no more than a graze. He said he didn’t see who’d shot him.
9 August, 2015 – ARMED TEENAGER ARRESTED
At 6:16 PM, Officers responding to a suspicious person complaint encountered three young men lurking about the Advanced Auto Parts store on Rout 80 at Eastern Street. The three young men spotted the Officers. One took off running. An Officer took off after him and caught him a short distance away. The teen fought with the Officer. During his attempt to get away, he grabbed a gun and threw it away.
The teen was arrested and the gun was recovered. It was a loaded Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun. The gun was reported stolen in South Carolina.
The teen was charged with several gun charges.
Note: We are prohibited from releasing the identity of juvenile perpetrators or victims.
9 August, 2015 – GUNFIRE INVESTIGATION
At 10:00 PM, Officers were called to the area of 150 Fairmont Avenue after a resident reported hearing three gunshots. She told the Officers she’d first heard a single shot and then seen two men, clad in dark clothing fire two more shots toward a house.
A nearby house was struck once. The projectile did not appear to fully penetrate the exterior wall and no one was reported to have been injured. Police collected the evidence and photographed the scene. No suspects have been identified.
9 August, 2015 – GUNFIRE INVESTIGATION
At 11:20 PM, Officers were dispatched to Roosevelt’s Bar on State Street at Bradley Street after caller to 911 reported gunfire.
Arriving Officers encountered a large crowd. They were patrons at the bar’s “White Party” (a themed party at which patrons are dressed in all white).
It took officers some time to disperse the crowds and search for evidence. None were very cooperative when questioned about the gunfire. No evidence could be found. Witnesses did report gunfire.
A later report of a person shot at Popeye’s Fried Chicken Restaurant on Whalley Avenue seems to be related.
Note: On May 31, 2015, five people were shot in a single incident at a “White Party” held on the second floor of a downtown New Haven tattoo parlor. Police do not suggest any connection but caution the public that such themed parties do not have a good track record.
10 August, 2015 – SHOOTING INVESTIGATION
Just minutes past midnight, Officers responded to the Popeye’s Fried Chicken Restaurant at Whalley Avenue and Dwight Street after several callers reported gunfire and a person shot.
Arriving Officers found the victim, eighteen year old Jahsean Warren, of Front Street in West Haven. Warren gave Officers a generic description of the black man he said shot him. 5’07”, wearing a black tank-top, shorts and no shoes.
The victim wasn’t cooperative. Officers found evidence of the gunfire at Popeye’s and in nearby on Dwight Street.
Witnesses described a large private “White Party” that broke up after gunfire erupted at Roosevelt’s Restaurant on State Street at Bradley Street just minutes earlier. The witnesses claimed the dispute from the Roosevelt’s incident moved to Popeye’s, where things erupted again..
Florida Rap artist Klass Money has officially signed a record deal with Miami record label Redd City Music Group! Redd City Music Group is ran by Miami music mogul JC "Fentz" Louis along with his 2 associates Jimmy Jean-Paul and Jean-Guens Jean-Paul!
JC "Fentz" Louis is well known known throughout South Florida and is also one half of the production company known as Drum Majorz. His success dates back to his first international smash hit entitled "Get Crunked Up" back in 2000 from his artist "Iconz" and has been responsible for breaking several acts and singles since then. Fentz has also worked with several mainstream artists such as Trick Daddy, Trina, Ludacris, Damian Marley, Jagged Edge and much more and has also released major films such as Bloodline and The Next Hit starring Fedro Starr, Rick Ross and Lark Vorhies.
For the past several months Klass Money has been spending a lot of time working at Miami's new high end recording facility, Midtown Studios and Films, owned by Redd City Music Group, and has apparently built a strong relationship with the CEOs. The rapper was recently offered a 5 year recording deal with the label, which he signed on July 4th, adding him to Redd City Music Group artist roster!
With an already impressive catalog accumulating over a million hits on YouTube, tens of thousands of social media followers and tons of digital sales I am more than curious to see where this joint venture will lead to! Congratulations to Klass Money on his new record deal!
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Linebacker Aldon Smith has been released by the San Francisco 49ers after his latest arrest. The team announced the move Friday, hours after Smith was let out of jail.
Marchers took to the streets of rural Alabama declaring, "Our lives, our votes, our jobs and our schools matter!" Join us: naacp.org/ajfj
Join us on Wednesday to help the Mayor celebrate her birthday.
Location: Anthony's Ocean View (450 Lighthouse Rd)
When: Wednesday, August 12, at 7pm
Banquet tickets can be purchased for $125, and VIP tickets that include a cocktail hour with the Mayor can be purchased for $300.
Don't want to miss it? Make sure to contact campaign@toniharp2015.com to RSVP.
Hope to see you there!
Toni Harp 2015
http://www.toniharp2015.com/
The first mix tape from the Prince of Queens. Using the vintage mixtape formula blending industry beats with Nakaya's unique sound is sure to have you yearning for more.
Mafikizolo perform at halftime of the 2015 NBA Africa Game
The NBA is the premier professional basketball league in the United States and Canada. The league is truly global, with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 47 languages, as well as NBA rosters at the start of the 2014-15 season featuring a record 101 international players from 37 countries and territories. For the 2014-15 season, each of the league's 30 teams will play 82 regular-season games, followed by a postseason for those that qualify.
Hakeem and Dikembe Surprise in Africa!
