Monroe (Fairfield, Connecticut)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut health officials say Hartford Hospital's one-year probation will be extended indefinitely because investigators found new health care violations earlier this year. The hospital was put on probation in February of last...

With their vast arsenals of electronic gear, they are the most entertained generation ever. Yet the YouTubing, MySpacing, multi-tasking teens and young adults widely seen as Hollywood's most wanted audience are feeling — can it be? — a bit...

Holly Piirainen was your typical preteen. She had a slumber party on her 10th birthday, thought "The Simpsons" was cool and loved puppies. It was the prospect of seeing a litter of newborn pups at a nearby cottage that lured Holly away from her...

When those who knew Cantor Fitzgerald employee Michael Lunden gather to memorialize him this week, they will do so without socks. That's the way Lunden dressed, and that's how they want to remember him. In churches and homes around the country, thousands...

Though she was told not to expect his return, Christel DeSimone believes there will never be closure after her 23-year-old son was lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. At the same time, Robert J. Hymel's widow remembers how...

In many ways, Carole Surran was the ideal parishioner - a devout Catholic who attended Mass daily and allowed nothing to interfere with her faith or devotion to the church. It was that devotion, in part, that led the Wilton mother to seek a meeting in...

Results are listed in alphabetical order. Times listed indicate when runners crossed the finish line, not their elapsed time. The timing chip is not activated until the runners reach the starting line. Some hometowns were not available. Information...

Garden books range from inspiring to instructive, from pocket-size guides to encyclopedic tomes detailing common as well as rare plants. The following alphabetical list includes several such books, including gardening and landscaping guides: -...

Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Dempsey of Monroe died Nov. 13, 2004 in an explosion in Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Dempsey, a graduate of New Canaan High School, was in the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, attached to the II Marine Expeditionary Force. He was 23. ---...

I was a small child in Monroe, Conn., during the flood but I recall my father being away for days at a time, helping to restore power, I believe in Waterbury. I remember he told about someone - perhaps the Red Cross - coming along and giving tetanus...

Floods ravaged Connecticut Friday, claiming many lives and causing untold millions of dollars in damage. Early reports, unconfirmed, listed at least 38 dead or missing, most of them children. The death toll also rose in the rest of New England which...