Fever knock off Sun to advance to finals
UNCASVILLE — The maturation process of the Connecticut Sun came to an ugly, grinding halt Thursday night as the team unraveled in the deciding game of the Eastern Conference finals. All the momentum...
View ArticleWerth homers to lift Nationals over Cardinals
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals signed Jayson Werth to show them how to win. His game-ending homer Thursday night extended their surprising season. Werth led off the bottom of the ninth...
View ArticleSenate square-off|Murphy, McMahon exchange jabs over economy, Social Security...
STORRS — Linda McMahon and Christopher Murphy covered mostly well-trodden ground in another lively and personal U.S. Senate debate Thursday night. The two candidates debated jobs and the economy,...
View ArticleRose beats Tiger in event in Turkey
BELEK, Turkey (AP) -- Justin Rose beat Tiger Woods by a stroke Thursday to set up a title match with Lee Westwood in the World Golf Final. The two Englishmen, who played on the victorious European...
View ArticleOllie unafraid to fill Calhoun's legendary shoes
Kevin Ollie ought to be eternally grateful to Jim Calhoun. At the same time, nobody would blame him for asking his former coach and boss what the heck he was thinking. Ollie is the latest man to take...
View ArticleScoreboard for Oct. 11
Thursday's results FOOTBALL Naugatuck Valley League Holy Cross 48, Kennedy 12 Ansonia 47, Seymour 0 BOYS SOCCER Naugatuck Valley League Torrington 5, Holy Cross 1 Berkshire League Northwestern 1,...
View ArticleWilson: Bears' win shakes up BL field hockey race
THOMASTON — Oh, this one had all the ingredients of a best-selling novel. The kind you can't put down. And the best thing? There is a sequel on the not too distant horizon, Oct. 30 in Woodbury, to be...
View ArticleAnsonia crushes Seymour
ANSONIA —Junior taiback Saiheed Saunders, starting in place of injured Arkeel Newsome, rushed for 107 yards and three touchdowns, on runs of 7, 31 and 9 yards, to lead the undefeated Ansonia High...
View ArticleSports talk show hits the road to Florida
Fans of the WAPJ radio program "Litchfield County Sports," be advised your favorite sports talk show is moving this week. No, really, it is moving, as in they are going to Florida. The talk tandem of...
View ArticleBoys soccer: Torrington topples Crusaders
Torrington 5, Holy Cross 1: Jairo Borja led Torrington with a hat trick as it defeated Holy Cross in an NVL Copper Division showdown between the division's top teams. In an eight-minute span, Borja...
View ArticleGirls soccer: Raiders blank Cross
Taylor Howe recorded seven saves for the Torrington High girls soccer team while posting her fifth shutout of the season in a 2-0 win at home over Naugatuck Valley League opponent Holy Cross on...
View ArticleBrennan: Holy Cross gets its attack back on track
WATERBURY -- Holy Cross' struggling offense was at the center of the Crusaders' surprising two-game losing streak that has put the team's season on the line every week. That unit turned it around...
View ArticleSlumping A-Rod a $275-million hole in Yankees' batting order
NEW YORK (AP) — His production shriveled, his aura dissipated, his place in history unsettled and his ego almost certainly bruised, Alex Rodriguez took a seat following the Snub Seen 'Round the World...
View ArticleKyle Brennan interview's Sacred Heart's Jaquan Overby
After injury, Overby is recovered and ready
View Articlekyle Brennan interviews Sacred Heart's Dave Coggins
Sacred Heart player gearing up for big game
View ArticleOrioles force Game 5 showdown with Yankees
NEW YORK (AP) — Just maybe the Baltimore Orioles' remarkable run into October is not so improbable after all. Seventeen wins in extra innings, 31 victories in one-run games. Staving off elimination...
View ArticlePaper honored with top awards|Reporters' work helped preserve the right to know
NATICK, Mass. — The Republican-American received two of New England's most coveted journalism awards Thursday at the New England Newspaper and Press Association's fall conference. The Sunday Republican...
View ArticleDowntown plans change|Mayor shelves large-scale project for Main Street...
TORRINGTON — Ambitious plans that would have changed the layout and traffic pattern downtown are being shelved by Mayor Ryan Bingham to focus on a new realignment of Main Street with grant money and...
View ArticleThorndike pleads guilty|Woodbury financial planner ends federal trial before...
HARTFORD — "You can't fight City Hall." That's part of the brief statement 62-year-old Thomas Thorndike delivered as he was leaving the federal courthouse in Hartford on Thursday after pleading guilty...
View ArticleBironas' FG gives Titans 26-23 win over Steelers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rob Bironas kicked his fourth field goal, a 40-yarder as time expired, and the Tennessee Titans beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 26-23 on Thursday night to snap a two-game skid....
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