CHICAGO -- Rich Cohen was walking down State Street on a recent rainy morning and he was not alone, though he appeared to be. “I feel like I hear my father’s voice all the time as I am walking around, especially when I am back in Chicago,” he said. Though he has long lived and written elsewhere, Cohen is arguably the most prolific and successful Chicago nonfiction writer of this era, his work ...
In South Carolina and Texas, victims were shot at a high school graduation party. In Kentucky, funeral goers were hit outside a church. Multiple shooters sprayed a crowd with bullets in Philadelphia. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, shots rang out at a nightclub.
When Dennis Hopper met Brooke Hayward on a Broadway stage in 1961, you wouldn’t have expected the two actors to connect, get married and help shape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles in the ’60s. Hopper was a wild card, a Method actor who’d made his Hollywood debut in “Rebel Without a Cause,” and at 24 had already earned a reputation as a stubborn maverick determined to be an artist in ...
In late April, one week before a trial began that would decide how much Alex Jones should pay the families of first-graders murdered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, the conspiracy theorist filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court. Jones, at the helm of a multi-million dollar right-wing media echo chamber, sought relief from the financial reckoning that was ...
A 6-year-old boy's mom says he was left badly burned after a bully soaked a ball in gas, lit it on fire and hurled it at him. Police are investigating.
NBC will not be sending its announcers and most hosts to the Beijing Olympics due to continued concerns about rising COVID-19 cases worldwide and China's strict policy about those who test positive.
South Carolina State University alumna Cheryl A. Hickmon, a 1984 graduate, has been elected national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, …
Hall of Fame basketball coach Jim Calhoun's first attempt at retirement lasted less than six years and the 79-year-old said Friday he's not expecting to spend his second one on a golf course.
There are some great “Gilmore Girls” gifts that they are sure to love. From candles to posters, these are the best “Gilmore Girls”-themed gifts you can buy.
U.S. President Joe Biden visited a child care center in Connecticut Friday, to argue that investments in child care and other social safety ne…
Hundreds of mourners, including law enforcement officers from across the nation, gathered at an outdoor music theater in Connecticut for the f…
Personal finance website WalletHub compared four types of taxation, including real estate tax and income tax, to determine which states place …
American millennials with budget constraints are breaking out of their pandemic coops to find affordable dream homes in far-flung places. Sora…
The Stamford Connecticut Fire Department says crews rescued a woman and man from icy waters Monday after a truck was partially submerged in water.
Around the country, efforts to reopen schools... pushed in many cases by parents anxious for their children to get out of the house ... and ba…
A retired Connecticut trooper who was among the first to respond to the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 has died of COVID-19.
It’s rare when a talent from the Buffalo area heads to a Division I school in a major conference and almost unheard of when it's one of the top college programs in the history of women’s basketball.
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COPE -- Lynne M. (Larabee) Decelles, 65, passed away Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Mr. Daniel Colter Sr., 95, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, passed Friday, Jan. 3, 2020.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut task force has been charged with recommending a statewide policy for mental health services offered for c…
Chris Mosier’s motto is “Be the person you needed when you were younger.”
The Supreme Court won't stop a lawsuit brought by Sandy Hook victims' families against Remington, maker of the rifle used in the 2012 shooting at the school.
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