NFL offenses having another banner year
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Take it from Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, there's no sense steering a kid to play linebacker if he can throw the ball like his son Luke can. The senior at...
View ArticleEasy opener for UConn women|Huskies roll to 64 point victory
STORRS (AP) — Freshman Breanna Stewart scored 21 points in her college debut Sunday as No. 2 Connecticut routed the College of Charleston 103-39 to win its 17th consecutive season opener. Kaleena...
View ArticleToday in History, Nov. 11
Today is Sunday, Nov. 11, the 316th day of 2012. There are 50 days left in the year. This is Veterans Day in the U.S., Remembrance Day in Canada. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 11, 1918,...
View ArticleBrady's 2 TD passes lead Pats over Bills
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Ryan Fitzpatrick threw into the end zone to the open man. Unfortunately for the Bills, that man was Patriots safety Devin McCourty. That easy interception with 23 seconds left...
View ArticleDalton outduels Eli as Giants fall
CINCINNATI (AP) — A.J. Green was partly correct. The defending Super Bowl champions do have a lot of holes on the defense. And everywhere else, it turns out. Andy Dalton threw a career-high four...
View ArticleMills boys beat Nonnewaug, move into "M" quarters
Shepard PK goal breaks scoreless tie in 70th minute
View Article6 rescued from burning apartment building in Naugatuck
NAUGATUCK -- Firefighters used ladders to rescue six people from a burning apartment building at 66 Terrace Ave. tonight. A ground-floor apartment in the three-story, 12-unit building was engulfed in...
View ArticleWomen's roundup: Top 25 results
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Chiney Ogwumike scored 22 points, Joslyn Tinkle added 19 and Stanford beat rival county Santa Clara. Amber Orrange matched her career high with 18 points for the Cardinal...
View ArticleOpiate addicts die alone|Near-overdoeses frequent in Torrington, Waterbury,...
TORRINGTON -- A Republican-American investigation has found that of 12 police investigations into overdose deaths since 2010 in the city, three-quarters were caused by either heroin or an opiate-based...
View ArticleAdvocate hopes to prove state is cougar country|Group raising money for...
Bo Ottmann is tired of hearing state officials deny that native mountain lions exist in Connecticut. "The people of Connecticut need to band together and we are going to prove without a shadow of a...
View ArticleShopkeepers bemoan Chase Avenue widening|Say project is hurting business
WATERBURY -- The Chase Avenue widening project is forging ahead, though many wish it wasn't happening at all. Business owners complain the project is not only unnecessary, but is impacting their sales....
View Article6 rescued from burning apartment building in Naugatuck|1 resident, 1...
NAUGATUCK -- Six people were rescued from the top floors of a three-story Terrace Avenue apartment building after fire engulfed a ground-floor unit Sunday night. The occupant of the fire-damaged...
View ArticleChild describes shootings in Afghan village
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Looking gravely across a courtroom in Afghanistan, 7-year-old Zardana raised her hand Saturday and swore to testify truthfully about the night a man who prosecutors...
View ArticleIsrael, Gaza militants trade fire in escalation
JERUALEM (AP) — Israeli forces struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing one Palestinian and wounding more than 30 others as militants launched dozens of rockets in some of the heaviest...
View ArticleCongress wants answers on Petraeus affair
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed an extramarital affair between ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer,...
View ArticleIsrael drawn into fighting in Syria war
JERUSALEM — Israel was drawn into the fighting in neighboring Syria for the first time Sunday, firing warning shots across the border after an errant mortar shell landed near an Israeli military...
View ArticleMan in Afghan uniform kills British soldier
KABUL, Afghanistan — A gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform shot and killed a member of the U.S.-led coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan on Sunday — the latest in a spate of insider attacks that...
View ArticleNew Yorkers protest being left powerless
NEW YORK — New Yorkers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, criticizing its slow pace as well as a...
View ArticleT.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86
LONDON (AP) — Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot and zealous guardian of the poet's literary legacy for almost half a century, has died. She was 86. In a statement Sunday, the Eliot estate said...
View ArticleFight brewing over Senate filibusters
WASHINGTON — A brewing and potentially bitter fight over Democratic efforts to curb filibusters is threatening to inflame partisan tensions in the Senate, even as President Obama and Republicans...
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