Yale men’s lacrosse is heading back to the NCAA DI Final Four for a second straight year. The Bulldogs are trying to defend their 2018 national title, the program’s first in modern history. But before they got there, first, Yale had to take down Ivy League foe. 

Sunday’s quarterfinal game played out exactly how everyone expected: it was cutthroat, physical, down to overtime. Neither team ever lead by more than two goals, but it was the Bulldogs and senior Jack Tigh who got the one that mattered. 

“I tripped over my feet, lost the ball,” Tigh said of the final seconds before his game-winning goal. 

“Thought it was still in my stick at first but I saw it was right underneath me, scooped it up with one hand and got really lucky to split the double and I found the back of the net," he said. 

"It was one of those goals where you're like, ‘No, no, no, no. Yes!’ So it'll be funny to watch on film and Jack will have to stand up for his one-handed goal and stick-side high shot but we're really happy it went in,” teammate, Jackson Morrill, said. “It's a great play by him." 

Yale lost its regular season meeting with Penn in triple overtime and they lost to the Quakers in the Ivy League championship by one goal. 

Now the Bulldogs play top-seeded Penn State in the national semifinals Saturday, May 25 in Philadelphia.  

The concert line-ups for Alive@Five and Wednesday Night Live in Stamford are out and Shaggy, T-PAIN. 98 Degrees and more will be heading to Connecticut to perform at Columbus Park in Stamford Downtown this summer. 

The Alive@Five shows begin at 5p.m. and run five Thursdays, July 11 –to Aug. 8.

You must be 21 or older to be admitted. The admission fee is $20. The Alive@Five happy hour is from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and beer and wine are $5.

Alive@Five:

• July 11: Shaggy
• July 18: 98 Degrees
• July 25: Pop 2000 Tour, hosted by Lance Bass of *NSYNC. Performances by OTown, Aaron Carter, Ryan Cabrera, Tyler Hilton 
• Aug. 1: Travie McCoy (of Gym Class Heroes)
• Aug. 8: T-PAIN 

Wednesday Nite Live:

Wednesday Nite Live, a five-week long series, runs Wednesdays, July 10 through Aug. 7 in Columbus Park at 6:30 p.m. All ages will be admitted to Wednesday Nite Live. The entrance fee is: $20; 12 and under are free with a paying adult. For more information and a complete list of rules and restricted items, visit: www.stamford-downtown.com/events

• July 10: Andy Grammer
• July 17: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
• July 24: War 
• July 31: Chubby Checker
• Aug. 7: Jon Secada 

Thousands of proud parents flooded the streets of New Haven on Monday to watch their sons and daughters graduate from Yale University.

“Oh, it’s amazing. It’s a dream come true,” said Steve Rice, who traveled from Phoenix, Arizona, along with other relatives from New York and Georgia.

The graduates were beaming with pride at all they accomplished.

“It’s great. I’ve been here 5 years finishing up my BHD. Now I have a doctorate and I’m moving on from here,” said Alexander Engler, a graduate from Boston. Engler studied biomedical engineering. He was selected to carry the banner of the graduate school and lead the graduates through the old campus.

Throughout the day of commencement events, local businesses experienced a big boost. It was hectic for shop owners who love the extra business, but also hate saying goodbye to their loyal customers.

“The staff has created bonds with the customers who have been here for the last three or four years. So it’s kind of mixed feelings. Happy for them because they’re graduating and just taking another course of their lives, their professional lives, but also sad because we’re not going to see them anymore,” said Sebastian Torres, the manager of Atticus Bookstore Café.

Glastonbury police have arrested one man in connection with an arson case and they are searching for another suspect who is believed to have fled the country.

On Friday, police arrested 27-year-old Ahmad Lababneh in connection with a fire that police said was intentionally set in the early morning hours of Sept. 24 on Naubuc Avenue in Glastonbury.

He is accused of conspiring to light two vehicles and a home on fire while several people, including two small children, were in the home, police said.

Police have identified 23-year-old Momen Mockless Almefleh as the suspected accomplice and he remains at large. Police believed he fled to Amman, Jordan shortly after police interviewed him.

Anyone with information on where he is should call the Glastonbury Police Department Investigations unit at 860-652-4260.

Lababneh was charged with arson in the first degree, three counts of criminal mischief in the first degree, five counts of reckless endangerment in the first degree, conspiracy to commit arson in the first degree and three counts of conspiracy to commit criminal mischief in the first degree.

Bail was set at $750,000 and he is scheduled to appear in Manchester Superior Court on May 30.

A portion of Route 16 in Chelsea, Massachusetts was shut down to traffic after a grenade was found in an occupied building on Monday morning.

The grenade was discovered in a building at 266 Revere Beach Parkway sometime after 11 a.m. by emergency personnel performing a well-being check.

Chelsea Police said the 30-unit building has been evacuated and the road has been shut down as a precaution on the westbound side. Surrounding residences are also expected to be evacuated.

The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad responded to the scene.

Fire officials said the grenade was determined to be a dumy or a souvenir, but two canisters of black powder were also found inside the building that were labeled "explosive." They said the canisters are being taken to Rumney Marsh in Revere.

The investigation is ongoing and the scene remains active.

No further information was immediately available.

Police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old man in Milford Sunday night, interviewing people who they referred to as “persons of interest” and looking into whether a confrontation caused or contributed to the man's death.

Officers responded to the home on Anderson Avenue at 10:01 p.m. on Sunday after receiving a 911 call from someone who reported a man was unconscious on the front ramp of the property and the victim pronounced dead at 10:10 p.m., police said.

He appeared to have sustained some recent trauma and investigators are looking into whether that caused or contributed to the man’s death.

Ten to 12 people are possible witnesses and police are speaking with them. Officials said several people live in the home, as well as in vehicles and tents on the property.

The circumstances of the man's death are under investigation. Police said there had been some sort of a confrontation, but investigators they have gotten conflicting reports on when that happened.

The man’s name was not released because police are notifying his family members. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is working on determining the cause of death.

Authorities said there is no threat to the public.

A research group that tags and tracks sea life said Monday for the first time, it has tracked a great white shark in Long Island Sound.

OCEARCH said a GPS tracking device on the shark sent a ping from off the Greenwich shoreline just before 9 a.m.

The shark, named Cabot, is 9-feet, 8-inches long and roughly 533 pounds, according to the research group.

The owner of Ray & Mike’s, a deli in Hamden, has pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, according to the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Raymond George, 52, of Hamden, owns Ray & Mike’s, LLC, at 3030 Whitney Ave. in Hamden and officials from the office of the U.S. Attorney said he evaded paying his federal income taxes in multiple ways in 2012 and 2013.

Officials said he failed to deposit all of the cash receipts of the business into his business bank account and used some of the cash to fill an in-store ATM and failed to report the cash as income.

He is also accused of using the Ray & Mike business account to pay personal expenses.

Federal officials said he deposited three large checks totaling nearly $300,000 from the Ray & Mike’s business account into his personal investment account without reporting the funds as income, then withdrew funds from the investment account to buy personal investment properties.

He is also accused of depositing a $25,800 check from the Ray & Mike’s lottery account into his personal investment account without reporting the funds as income.

George was also accused of underreporting his income on his federal tax returns by approximately $365,065 for the 2012 tax year and by $273,108 for the 2013 tax year and failing to pay $220,000 in taxes, according to federal officials.

He has agreed to pay back taxes of $220,663, plus interest and penalties, according to a news release from John Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

A pickup is on fire after a dirt bike crashed into it at Capitol Avenue and Park Terrace in Hartford, according to police. 

Police said there was no information on injuries and they are asking people to stay out of the area.

If you’ve been to an event with a Democrat running for president this year, there's a good chance you’ve heard about it: the racial wealth gap.

Candidates are regularly bringing up the fact that the typical black family has only one-tenth the assets of the typical white family — a divide that has grown larger than it was 35 years ago, NBC News reports.

In Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gives detailed history lessons on how discriminatory policies created the wealth gap while predatory lending and mass incarceration exacerbated it. Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman, condemns the “imperfect, unfair, unjust and racist capitalist economy."

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey doesn’t just bring up the disparity in places like New Hampshire, he brings state-specific data along with him.

Politicians, academics and activists who’ve worked on these issues say this cycle is unique both in the emphasis White House hopefuls have put on the racial wealth gap, but also the type of detailed agendas they've proposed to address it.

Winter has come and gone and it seems those who fought through it are now taking a much-needed vacation.

“Game of Thrones” actor Kit Harington was spotted in Connecticut Sunday, the same day the series finale of the hit show aired on HBO.

The star known to for his portrayal of Jon Snow on the popular show browsed the stacks at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison Sunday afternoon, according to the store.

He spoke with staff and said he was on holiday. Staff reported he was very pleasant and bought some books.

While the TV series has come to an end, story author George R.R. Martin has said he plans to release two more books. There is also buzz of future television projects, and HBO has said there is already a pilot in production for a story set in the same world thousands of years before the current characters were ever born.

More charges have been filed against a man accused of leaving decapitated chickens outside a home in Westport. 

Ajamu Obataiye, 48, of New York, New York, has been charged with four counts of breach of peace and four counts of littering or dumping. 

Police said four packages of headless chickens were left in the yard of a Franklin Street residence overnight in March and April and police took Obataiye into custody on April 13 at the Saugatuck Train Station. 

Investigators submitted an arrest warrant application for Obataiye for the four previous incidents and he was arrested on May 14 on the outstanding arrest warrant and transported to Westport Police headquarters. 

He was unable to post $75,000 court set bond and was transported to Norwalk Court.

A crash on River Road in Shelton prompted a gas leak and area businesses have been evacuated, according to police. 

River Road is closed between Murphy's Lane and Petremont Lane, according to police.

Kathleen Frascarelli likes to see who’s at the door before she answers it. Sunday night, the image she saw of the person on the other side of the glass gave her the creeps.

“It’s a smile that doesn’t go away,” said Frascarelli.

Frascarelli uses a Ring doorbell with a motion-detecting camera to see who is at her front door. When she logged into the app at 8:45 p.m. she saw a masked individual looking directly into the camera.

“That mask. That smile. That was weird,” she said.

The person knocks and then stands at the door for 15 seconds. Afterwards, the camera catches them pulling their sleeve over their hand, then wiping away their fingerprints from the doorknob they tried to open when they first walked up to the house.

“Wiping off his fingerprints. I mean come on. He was there to do no good,” said Frascarelli’s neighbor Marcie Childers.

“He had something heavy in his sweatshirt pocket, which we don’t know what that was,” said Frascarelli.

“And, he had a bag that he was carrying with him. So, God knows what was in there,” added neighbor Tamara Tromblay, who saw the security footage.

Frascarelli said by the time she made it downstairs the person was already in a car parked across the street. Their car window was down so she yelled out them, but they sped off.

“It actually scared the living daylights out of me. It was quite creepy. Kind of reminds you of something you’d see out of a movie,” said Tromblay.

Frascarelli shared the video with neighbors and on social media, too.

“I tried to put it everywhere to tell anybody who would see it to not go to their door to make sure they knew who was there,” she said.

One neighbor told us she now plans to install a security camera outside her home.

“You actually have a suspect you can look at instead of a description,” explained Barbara Kozikowski.

Frascarelli immediately called the Bristol Police Department. Police said they are investigating the incident and have not gotten any other calls about this individual.

“This is a dead end off of a dead end. Nobody comes down here,” said Frascarelli. “I don’t know what he was trying to do.”

“I was a little creeped out, nerved up, cause it’s quiet around here. So, you just don’t expect anything like that,” added Kozikowski.

“We’re locking the doors. Even if we have the door open we’re locking the screen. We never did that before,” Childers added.

Frascarelli said this isn’t the first time someone has had their eye on her home – she said she was the victim of a burglary 10 years ago.

“The whole house was a disaster, everything thrown on the floor,” recalled Frascarelli.

The suspects were eventually caught.

Now, she’s hoping with help of smart home technology she doesn’t become a victim again.

“Enough people know about it now,” said Frascarelli.

“Things are getting a little more dangerous than they used to be and people don’t know their neighbors like they use to so to have the extra eye on your house is wonderful,” added Childers.

The West Side STEM Magnet Middle School in Groton was evacuated Monday due to a potential threat, the superintendent confirmed.

Superintendent Dr. Michael Graner confirmed officials evacuated the school due to the potential threat around 2:30 p.m.

It was close to dismissal time so students were sent home.

Graner said everyone is safe and expects everything to return to normal Tuesday.

No other details were immediately available.

While New Haven and Fairfield County cities and towns hit hard by the May 2018 tornadoes and storms are receiving federal disaster funding to cover public expenses, FEMA denied providing aid for individual property owners.

With many left to foot the bill for getting rid of fallen trees and large stumps not covered by homeowners' insurance, Connecticut's federal delegation of lawmakers is reintroducing the DEBRIS Act (Diversifying Emergency Benchmarks for the Recovery of Individuals after Storms).

“We’re all a little apprehensive now when they say a bad storm is coming because now it could happen again,” Roberta Guarino of Hamden said.

Scars of the May 2018 Hamden tornado can still be seen in her backyard.

"And you could hear the wind against your house taking the trees down, the slamming of the trees on the ground it was really scary,” Guarino said, recalling the afternoon of May 15, 2018.

Around her property, there are still piles of cut up logs.

“Friends are coming and taking the wood because we have tons and tons of chopped wood,” Guarino said.

It has cost her family about $25,000 for tree removal, only partly covered by insurance, Guarino said.

"That’s the necessary trees they had to take down that were going to fall on the house or on the driveway and they had to take those down,” she explained.

Many of her neighbors have been left top pay thousands of dollars out of pocket for clearing away large stumps and fallen trees that did not damage a home.

“Because homeowner insurance typically fails to cover this kind of debris removal and the federal government has turned a blind eye to it which is unfair unjust unacceptable,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) said during a Monday morning press conference on October Hill Road in Hamden.

The lawmakers said the legislation they are reintroducing as Congress finalizes the federal budget for FY 2020 would let FEMA included fallen trees and debris in individual damage assessments and homeowners could be reimbursed.

“The relief process is not always working for our community members if it is blocking them from the support they need,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) said.

Mayor Curt Leng (D-Hamden) shared an example of one costly estimate a resident of his town received.

"Actually had one older woman that had an estimate of between $50 to $75,000 of damage of just trees and tree removal in her yard,” he said.

Guarino said she's hopeful the DEBRIS Act gains enough support to pass in the U.S. House and Senate.

“That would be such a huge, huge help to all of us, my neighbors, to have that covered,” she said.

A year later, Guarino said her family still feels lucky.

"My son-in-law said it best, we didn’t go to any funerals," she said. "But if you were here the next day you would have thought, we couldn’t believe that people survived, we couldn’t believe it.”

A wood plaque commemorating the May 2018 tornado in the hard hit Hamden neighborhood says it best: "We are all here."

A bear was euthanized after it attacked and killed a dog in Burlington Monday, according to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

DEEP spokesperson Lee Sawyer said the department received the report of the bear attack on Bradley Road just before 2 p.m. 

Connecticut State Police said that the caller reported that when she let her two dogs out, one was attacked and killed.

Local and State Police responded. State police said the bear got aggressive toward an officer and was euthanized on scene.

Sawyer said there were three cubs in the area they believe belonged to the bear. A wildlife biologist is trying to capture them to relocate them to safety.

No other information was immediately available.

For more information on bears and how to respond if you encounter one, click here. 

Hartford police have arrested a woman accused of stabbing another woman 13 times, leaving the victim with critical injuries.

Police arrested Ednnys Vicente, 18, on Monday. She is accused of stabbing another woman on May 9 on Harvard Street.

During the stabbing, the victim suffered two punctured arteries, a spinal injury, and a stab wound to the mouth.

Vicente was charged with first-degree assault and was held on a $675,000 bond. She is due on court Tuesday.

Police said Vicente also had two outstanding warrants on unrelated cases.

An Arizona Border Patrol agent, facing criminal charges for hitting a migrant with a truck, sent text messages in which he referred to immigrants as “sh--bags” and “mindless, murdering savages.”

The use of such words is commonplace in the Tucson, Arizona, sector, the agent’s attorney said in court documents, although he’s backpedaling from that statement, NBC News reports.

Prosecutors obtained the texts that Matthew Bowen, 39, sent to other agents through a subpoena of phone records. The content of the text messages was first reported by the Arizona Daily Star.

The prosecutors wrote in a court document that Bowen’s text messages speak to his state of mind and his “intent on committing this civil rights crime.” They further stated the texts show “his subsequent effort to cover up his crime.”

Sean Chapman, Bowen’s attorney, has asked a judge to keep a jury from seeing the texts, saying that they don't aid a jury in determining if his client set out to use excessive force on this occasion and that Bowen's "'disdain' for aliens" is not relevant to the issues before the jury.

President Donald Trump directed his former White House Counsel Don McGahn to defy a congressional subpoena Monday, citing a Justice Department legal opinion that maintains McGahn would have immunity from testifying about his work as a close Trump adviser.

Trump's action, the latest in his efforts to block every congressional probe into him and his administration, is certain to deepen the open conflict between Democrats and the president. They've accused Trump and Attorney General William Barr of trying to stonewall and obstruct Congress' oversight duties.

McGahn was a key figure in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, describing ways in which the president sought to curtail that federal probe.

The House Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena to compel McGahn to testify by Tuesday, and the committee's chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has threatened to hold McGahn in contempt of Congress if he doesn't testify. Nadler has also suggested he may try and levy fines against witnesses who do not comply with committee requests.

"This move is just the latest act of obstruction from the White House that includes its blanket refusal to cooperate with this Committee," Nadler said in a statement. "It is also the latest example of this Administration's disdain for law."

Separately on Monday, a federal judge in Washington ruled against Trump in a financial records dispute, declaring the president cannot block a House subpoena for information from Mazars USA, a firm that has done accounting work for him and the Trump Organization.

And a hearing is planned in New York on Wednesday in another case, this one involving an effort by Trump, his business and his family to prevent Deutsche Bank and Capital One from complying with subpoenas from two House committees for banking and financial records.

If McGahn were to defy Trump and testify before Congress, it could endanger his own career in Republican politics and put his law firm, Jones Day, in the president's crosshairs. Trump has mused about instructing Republicans to cease dealing with the firm, which is deeply intertwined in Washington with the GOP, according to one White House official and a Republican close to the White House not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

Administration officials mulled various legal options before settling on providing McGahn with a legal opinion from the Department of Justice to justify defying the subpoena.

"The immunity of the President's immediate advisers from compelled congressional testimony on matters related to their official responsibilities has long been recognized and arises from the fundamental workings of the separation of powers," the department's opinion reads. "Accordingly, Mr. McGahn is not legally required to appear and testify about matters related to his official duties as Counsel to the President."

The Judiciary Committee still plans on meeting even if McGahn doesn't show up and McGahn "is expected to appear as legally required," Nadler said.

McGahn's lawyer, William Burck, has said his client would wait for the White House and the committee to reach an agreement.

"As you will appreciate, Mr. McGahn, as a former assistant to the president and the most senior attorney for the president in his official capacity, continues to owe certain duties and obligations to the President which he is not free to disregard," Burck wrote in a letter to Nadler this month.

Trump has fumed about McGahn for months, after it became clear that much of Mueller's report was based on his testimony. The president has bashed his former White House counsel on Twitter and has insisted to advisers that the attorney not be allowed to humiliate him in front of Congress, much as his former personal legal fixer Michael Cohen did, according to the official and Republican.

The Justice Department has long held the opinion that close presidential advisers have "absolute immunity" from being compelled to testify before Congress about their work for the president.

A federal judge rejected a similar argument in 2008 in a dispute over a subpoena for Harriet Miers, who was White House counsel to George W. Bush. U.S. District Judge John Bates said it was an unprecedented notion that a White House official would be absolutely immune from being compelled to testify before Congress. Miers had to show up for her testimony, but still had the right to assert executive privilege in response to any specific questions posed by legislators, the judge said.

But in 2014, under the Obama administration, the Justice Department issued an opinion arguing that if Congress could force the president's closest advisers to testify about matters that happened during their tenure, it would "threaten executive branch confidentiality, which is necessary (among other things) to ensure that the President can obtain the type of sound and candid advice that is essential to the effective discharge of his constitutional duties."

The House Judiciary Committee voted earlier this month to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt after he defied a subpoena for an unredacted version of Mueller's report.