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More than a year after Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was shot dead in New Haven, the case of slaying suspect Qinxuan Pan was continued again Wednesday, according to clerks at the New Haven Judicial District courthouse.
Pan, who has not yet entered a plea, now is scheduled to appear March 3.
His attorney, Norm Pattis, previously asked for more time to review evidence in the matter in December.
Pattis Wednesday evening told the Register that both he and Pan recently had...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol requested the phone records of a security employee working for far-right radio host Alex Jones.
The investigative panel issued a subpoena to AT&T for phone records belonging to Timothy Enlow, the security operations manager of Free Speech Systems, LLC, a media company owned by Jones. The committee requested records of phone calls and text messages Enlow made between Nov. 1, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2021.
The...

The House committee investigating last year's U.S. Capitol riot is seeking phone records and other communications made by one of Alex Jones' employees.
The panel subpoenaed phone records for Timothy Enlow, the security operations manager of Free Speech Systems, a media company owned by Jones, a conservative radio host. The request was made for text messages and phone calls placed between November 1, 2020, and January 31, 2021, The Hill reported.
Enlow had accompanied Jones to...

Sometime in 2019, New Britain officials embarked on a new school construction project and realized they had a dozen previous jobs that were done but weren’t fully closed out with the state — leaving millions of dollars in reimbursements up in the air.
Mayor Erin Stewart, frustrated by the delays, arranged a meeting with Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, then director of the school construction finance unit for the state. She brought the school facilities...

The Jan. 6 select committee has issued a subpoena for the phone records of a security guard for pro-Trump broadcaster Alex Jones, a sign of the panel’s deepening interest in Jones’ contacts related to his involvement in Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally, which preceded the violent attack on the Capitol.
In a court filing late Tuesday, Jones revealed that Timothy Enlow, a security official employed by Jones’ firm Free Speech Systems LLC, was notified by AT&T on Feb. 9...

A construction management firm at the center of a federal grand jury probe into school construction grants got two no-bid contracts worth a combined $530,000 to oversee the building of a new elementary school in Tolland — during the same period of time it hired the daughter of Konstantinos Diamantis.
The elder Diamantis had been the director of the state Office of School Construction Grants and Review until he resigned Oct. 28.
Tolland officials hired Construction Advocacy...

Attorneys representing the New Haven police union and the city have submitted arguments for and against vacating a decision upholding the firing of former Officer Jason Santiago, who was found to have used excessive force during a December 2019 arrest, as a court case on the issue continues.
Santiago, dismissed by the Board of Police Commissioners through a 4-2 vote, struck a man, allegedly kicked him in the groin while he was handcuffed on the ground and then pulled the man to his feet...

InfoWars host Alex Jones has sued the Jan. 6 Committee and a number of associated politicians. The lawsuit is an attempt to push back against a since-postponed deposition of Jones that the lawsuit indicates was originally scheduled for Dec. 18.
“Jones has offered to submit documents and answer written questions with written responses,” the lawsuit says. “The Select Committee has refused to accept that offer and insists that he appear in person for a deposition in...

The House Jan. 6 select committee issued five more subpoenas Monday related to its ongoing investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Two of the five subpoenas went out to longtime informal Trump adviser Roger Stone and InfoWars host Alex Jones.
"The Select Committee is seeking information about the rallies and subsequent march to the Capitol that escalated into a violent mob attacking the Capitol and threatening our democracy," said Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., the...