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Results 1 to 30Celtics hand Cavaliers first loss of season, winning 120-117 to end Cleveland's 15-game win streak
2024-11-20, 02:55Boston — The defending NBA champions held off the league’s hottest team on Tuesday night, with Jayson Tatum scoring 33 points and adding 12 rebounds to lead the Boston Celtics to a 120-117 victory over Cleveland and hand the Cavaliers their first loss after 15 straight wins to open the season....
UConn men roll to a 4-0 start
2024-11-20, 02:37Storrs — Four blowout victories into the season, No. 2 UConn has barely broken a competitive sweat. Challenging days are right around the corner as the schedule grows tougher. Goodbye to teams like East Texas A&M, which UConn hosted and toasted, 81-46, Tuesday at Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies...
Fire damages apartment, garage in Old Mystic
2024-11-20, 02:19Mystic ― A Tuesday afternoon fire caused heat and smoke damage to a two-car detached garage and the apartment above it at 186 Haley Road, said Old Mystic Fire Chief Kenneth Richards, Jr. No residents or firefighters were injured in the 5 :30 p.m. blaze, Richards said. Two people, who lived in the...
Local roundup: Conn College women stay unbeaten
2024-11-20, 01:24Boston — Connecticut College remained unbeaten with a 72-42 win over UMass Boston in a nonleague women’s basketball game on Tuesday night. Mia Xerras had 15 points, three assists and three steals, Addi Hunter had 11 points and six rebounds, Avery Burns scored 10, Sydney Feeney came off the bench for...
Stonington students honor 80 veterans at annual Fall Feast
2024-11-20, 01:06Stonington ― Stonington High School student government honored more than 80 local veterans Tuesday at the annual Fall Feast for Veterans. The tradition, which now is more than 20 years old, honors current and former members of the armed services, who are invited to attend the event with a guest free...
It's Boise St, not BYU, with a bye in latest College Football Playoff rankings, with Oregon at No. 1
2024-11-20, 01:06Boise State received the fourth and final bye in Tuesday night's College Football Playoff rankings, leaving BYU out of that mix and placing the Big 12 alongside the SEC on the list of power conferences with a gripe. Undefeated Oregon received top billing once again, delivered by the committee a few...
Los Angeles Sparks hire University of Utah coach Lynne Roberts to fill vacant head coach position
2024-11-20, 01:06Los Angeles — The Los Angeles Sparks have hired Utah coach Lynne Roberts to fill their vacant head coach position, the franchise announced Tuesday night. Roberts has spent the last nine-plus seasons at Utah and led the team to three straight NCAA Tournament berths. She was the Pac-12 Coach of the...
Cleveland's Stephen Vogt wins AL Manager of the Year, Milwaukee's Pat Murphy takes home NL honor
2024-11-20, 01:06Milwaukee's Pat Murphy won National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday after a stellar debut season with the Brewers, while Cleveland's Stephen Vogt took the AL honors honor after leading the Guardians to 92 wins and a division title in his first year as a skipper at any level. Murphy, 65, led...
Police logs ― Nov. 21, 2024
2024-11-20, 00:48Groton Town Cunard A. Brantley, 25, of 1 Crystal Lake Road, No. 218A, was charged Monday with second-degree breach of peace and third-degree assault. Madeline L. Mason, 19, of Brentwood, N.H., was charged Saturday with criminal impersonation. Reese M. Ziegler, 19, of Charlotte, N.C., was charged...
Auriemma can break all-time wins record Wednesday with No. 1,217 ... and UConn will celebrate
2024-11-20, 00:30Storrs — On the surface, UConn coach Geno Auriemma is not thrilled with this celebration, nor has he been cooperating much with those who are planning it. Sixty-three of Auriemma’s former women’s basketball players, including all-time greats Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore, are expected to be...
Old Lyme zoning proposal for Halls Road re-emerges with tweaks
2024-11-20, 00:12Old Lyme ― In order to lay the regulatory groundwork for a vision of Halls Road that has evolved over the past decade, something needs to change. That hasn’t happened. So for the third time since 2021, Halls Road Improvements Committee Chairwoman Edie Twining on Monday has pitched an amendment to...
Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School celebrates its repaired greenhouse
2024-11-19, 23:54Old Lyme ― Lyme-Old Lyme Middle School’s Eco Warriors hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday for the school’s renovated greenhouse that was built in the 1970’s. A grant paid to replace broken glass panels, a watering system and a fan. Members of the Lyme Old Lyme Food Share Garden assisted by...
Mets acquire center fielder Jose Siri from Rays for reliever Eric Orze
2024-11-19, 23:54New York — Speedy center fielder Jose Siri was acquired by the New York Mets from the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday for reliever Eric Orze. The 29-year-old Siri batted .187 with 18 home runs, 47 RBIs and a .620 OPS in a career-high 130 games this year for the Rays, who obtained him from Houston in...
Dredging company says tug boat not barge was stuck in Thames River
2024-11-19, 23:36Waterford ― A spokesman of the Massachusetts firm that owns the barge that was initially believed to be stuck on the muddy bottom of the Thames River Monday, clarified Tuesday that it was not the barge but the tug boat pushing it that got stuck. David Tranchida of Quinn & Hary Marketing/Public...
Trump, Musk solidify their bond with Texas trip for rocket launch
2024-11-19, 23:18Washington — For two weeks, Donald Trump has welcomed Elon Musk into his world. On Tuesday, it was Musk’s turn to play host to the president-elect. Trump flew to South Texas to watch as Musk’s SpaceX launched a Starship rocket near the Mexican border. Trump listened intently as the world’s richest...
Fight food waste and get discounted restaurant items on ‘Too Good to Go’ app
2024-11-19, 23:18An app that connects people with fresh leftover restaurant, bakery and grocery food at a deep discount at dozens of businesses is making a push in Connecticut. In turn, those businesses earn money for food that is fresh but would have otherwise been thrown out. “Too Good to Go,” as the app is...
The Buzz: TVCCA promotes Regina Brady to head agency’s new home visiting program
2024-11-19, 22:42Regina Brady, director of Thames Valley Council for Community Action’s WIC program, has been named director of the agency’s new Family Bridge universal home visiting program, set to launch in January. This program, the second of its kind in the state, will support post-partum women and their...
Trump chooses TV doctor Mehmet Oz to lead Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
2024-11-19, 22:24Washington — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television talk show host and heart surgeon, to head the agency that oversees health insurance programs for millions of older, poor and disabled Americans and selected Wall Street executive Howard Lutnick to lead the...
Norwich faith leaders again ask city to open overnight warming center
2024-11-19, 22:24Norwich ― Several members of the Norwich Area Interfaith Association have again asked the city to open an overnight winter warming center for nights when the state enacts severe weather protocols. Norwich has not had an overnight winter warming center since 2013, instead referring homeless residents...
Google’s Chrome to fetch up to $20B if judge orders sale
2024-11-19, 22:24Alphabet Inc.’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally...
Job market is turning chilly for recent U.S. college graduates
2024-11-19, 22:24In a cooling U.S. labor market, recent college graduates are among those feeling the chill most. The gap between the unemployment rate for recent graduates and the overall rate for Americans with a college degree widened to 2.8 percentage points in September, according to data published Tuesday by...
Prosecution rests in trial over death of Ga. nursing student Laken Riley
2024-11-19, 22:23Athens, Ga. — Georgia nursing student Laken Riley texted and called her mom as she headed out for a run to see whether she had time to chat — but then didn't respond to her mother's calls or increasingly frantic text messages. Riley called her mother at 9:03 a.m. on Feb. 22, and by the time her...
Survivor of deadly trip across Canada-U.S. border expected to testify in human smuggling trial
2024-11-19, 22:23Fergus Falls, Minn. — An Indian migrant who survived a deadly trek across the Canada-U.S. border in blizzard conditions is expected to testify Tuesday in the federal trial of two men accused of taking part in a sprawling human smuggling scheme that ultimately killed a family of four. Prosecutors...
Conn. mom facing charges for allegedly leaving 4 kids home alone while she traveled to NY
2024-11-19, 22:04A Vernon mother was extradited to Connecticut on Monday to face child endangerment charges for allegedly leaving her four young children home alone earlier this month. Officers on Nov. 8 responded to a residence Terrace Drive in Vernon for a welfare check and found four children alone, according to...
51-year-old man is charged with murder after 3 are stabbed in New York City rampage
2024-11-19, 22:04New York — A man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbings of three people in a string of random attacks across Manhattan, police said Tuesday. Ramon Rivera, 51, was taken into custody after he was found with blood on his clothes and the two kitchen knives,...
Connecticut man comes forward with story of clergy sexual abuse in hopes of helping other victims
2024-11-19, 22:04Hartford — Duane Gray says the priest at his Connecticut parish began sexually abusing him around 1974, when he was 12 years old. He told his parents, but they didn't believe it and beat him repeatedly. Then they kicked him out of the house when he was about 16, and he found himself living in the...
Great Barrington fire smoke smell hits parts of Connecticut on Tuesday
2024-11-19, 22:04Some Connecticut residents can smell the scent of smoke wafting in the air Tuesday as a large wildfire burns just north of the state line in Great Barrington, Mass., officials say. Smoke from the fire has also been spotted in parts of Connecticut. The smell was evident as far south as the Hamden and...
Man pleads guilty to role in fatal Norwich home invasion
2024-11-19, 22:04A former Norwich man arrested for his role in a fatal home invasion in Norwich opted to accept an 8-year prison sentence on Tuesday rather than face a jury in an upcoming trial. Tyshan McKethan, 42, entered guilty pleas to three criminal charges on the eve of trial, after a six-member jury had been...
Could it snow in Connecticut this week? It's possible as 'much colder air' arrives ahead of weekend
2024-11-19, 22:04Some wet snow could fall in Connecticut on Friday as colder air moves in to the region, according to the National Weather Service. After a dry start to the week, a low pressure system is expected to bring rain and gusty winds starting Wednesday night. The rain could be heavy at times, but should...
Police, residents kill dozens of Haitian gang members after attack in Pétion-Ville
2024-11-19, 22:04More than two dozen gang members were killed by police and members of the public after residents in the country’s Pétion-Ville neighborhood woke up Tuesday to panic and armed bandits in their midst. The attempted attack on the tony residential suburb of Port-au-Prince, which has tried to shield...
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