Eleven-year-old Yusuf Shah is being hailed as a genius after he made the highest possible score, 162, on a Mensa intelligence test. His performance beats those of physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert ...

Since both innocents and criminals die in shootings, how do you honor the victims while condemning the perpetrators? That’s the question standing between West River Alderman Yusuf Shah and his vision ...

The main topic on the table at Tuesday’s meeting of the Dwight Central Management Team was security. Residents listened to Alderman Yusuf Shah talk about how New Haven can temper the recent rash of ...

NEW HAVEN -- An alderman's proposal to co-name Whalley Avenue "The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." Avenue has evolved instead into an effort to rename Dixwell Avenue in honor of the slain civil ...

NEW HAVEN -- Alderman Yusuf Shah, D-23, is ready, after a lot of praying, to propose co-naming Whalley Avenue after civil rights pioneer the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. "It is my opinion and desire to ...