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PHILADELPHIA -- Hers has always been one of the more astonishing, if little-known, tales of the American Revolution: a woman who stitched herself a uniform, posed as a man and [...]

Harper Nunnemaker, 27, and Caitlyn McLeish, 26, who have been dating for about a year and a half, had planned to marry in 2018, and though that date is more [...]

Fear, if not the reality of the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that carry it, has not only cast its shadow on the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in [...]

Brett Barakett and Meaghan Jarensky didn't find each other on a dating site, but a posting on Match.com -- a blatantly counterfeit one -- nearly broke them up. ''There's a [...]

Byline: ALISON LEIGH COWAN and RANDY KENNEDY RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- The characters of Maurice Sendak may live in the imaginations of children around the world, but many of those characters [...]

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- The characters of Maurice Sendak may live in the imaginations of children around the world, but many of those characters were born in a wooded residential neighborhood [...]

The parents of Jessica Hershberg have seen her in a wedding dress more times than they can count. As an actress who is always a bride, never a bridesmaid, she [...]

Stubble makes an odd accessory on any well-dressed groom. But there was Benjamin Jacobs, debonair in his tuxedo, with enough blond fuzz on his cheeks to look as if he [...]

WATERBURY, Conn. -- There was the usual grab bag of inmates preparing to be heard here, from the career offender with a heroin problem to the plotter of a jewel [...]

Randall Bell makes house calls in some of the world's most forbidding places. And not just any houses, but properties touched by carnage, natural disasters and other headline-grabbing tragedies. So [...]

Medical experts at Yale University had called for drastic measures to help Adam Lanza in the years before he shot and killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in [...]

Haley Wesley, Lyn Balfour and Mikey Terry each had a different experience with the criminal justice system. Ms. Wesley was charged with involuntary manslaughter in Napa County, Calif., and pleaded [...]

DANBURY, Conn. -- In some ways, this past July 7 was like any other summer day for the Seitz family. Kyle Seitz awoke at 7 a.m., fed and walked the [...]

BRIDGEWATER, Conn. -- Forget last week's small-potato questions of who should govern or represent the people of Connecticut. Here, the big news on Tuesday was that this tradition-bound town of [...]

Connecticut finally got a Kennedy of its own on Tuesday night when Ted Kennedy Jr., the 53-year-old son of the former United States senator from Massachusetts, overcame opposition over the [...]

BRANFORD, Conn. -- Getting a scion of the Kennedy family elected to an open seat in the State Senate in this heavily Democratic state must have seemed as though it [...]

CHESHIRE, Conn. -- His is not one of those hard-up campaigns that have to worry where the next sign or brochure is coming from. As a 60-year-old businessman whose fortune [...]

STAMFORD, Conn. -- Entering the race for State Senate in April, Ted Kennedy Jr., the son of a United States senator and the nephew of a president, denounced the way [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSTAMFORD, Conn. -- A Connecticut state trooper shot and killed a man who was attacking fellow passengers with a knife on a bus bound for the Mohegan Sun casino [...]

HARTFORD -- Voters in Connecticut may prefer to forget that they elected John G. Rowland as their governor three times now that he has been convicted of political corruption -- [...]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut announced a pre-Election Day present for beleaguered commuters on Wednesday in the form of additional train service between the New Haven station and Grand [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEW HAVEN -- He was a thrice-elected governor, and last week he became a twice-convicted felon. Watching John G. Rowland come and go each day for his 13-day trial [...]

NEW HAVEN -- Former Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut, who nearly a decade ago was forced to resign from office in disgrace, was found guilty in federal court on [...]

NEW HAVEN -- After 12 days of testimony laying bare some of the dirty tricks and subterfuge that can course through political campaigns, the defense lawyer appealed to jurors not [...]

NEW HAVEN -- As former Gov. John G. Rowland of Connecticut politely observes the proceedings from his front-row seat, the gloves have been coming off all week here at his [...]

NEW HAVEN -- Ann Collette was not used to getting calls late on a Sunday night from her boss at Apple Rehab, she told a rapt courtroom on Friday, but [...]

NEW HAVEN -- In three days on the stand, Brian Foley, the government's star witness in a corruption case against John G. Rowland, the former governor of Connecticut, repeatedly told [...]

NEW HAVEN -- When Lisa Wilson-Foley, a Republican political hopeful in Connecticut, entered the 2012 congressional race, she and her husband, Brian Foley, had lots of money but not necessarily [...]

NEW HAVEN -- Mark Greenberg, a businessman who entered Connecticut politics in the 2010 election cycle, and Marc Katz, a business partner who ran two of his three campaigns for [...]

NEW HAVEN -- ''I happen to like John Rowland, and I liked meeting him,'' Mark Greenberg said on Wednesday from the witness stand at the federal courthouse here. But, he [...]

NEW HAVEN -- The accusations are similar. The judge will be different. The last time John G. Rowland, the former governor of Connecticut, appeared at the federal courthouse here as [...]

BRISTOL, Conn. -- A pair of thefts have disrupted the quiet rhythms of two Connecticut towns and have up-at-dawn farmers and their loyal farm stand clientele fuming. ''I would never [...]

NEW HAVEN -- Robert S. Greenberg has been prying this city's secrets from its soil since he was a boy digging up coins at the beach. He divines information about [...]

Byline: ALISON LEIGH COWAN and CHOE SANG-HUN BEDFORD, N.Y. -- With its blue-and-gold regalia and its link to French royalty, the chocolate shop by the Bedford Hills train station looked [...]

The November election for governor of Connecticut will be a rematch of 2010's razor-close contest. Thomas C. Foley, a Greenwich businessman and a former ambassador to Ireland, handily defeated the [...]

BEDFORD, N.Y. -- With its blue-and-gold regalia and its link to French royalty, the chocolate shop by the Bedford Hills train station looked as if it would fit right in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Thomas C. Foley and John McKinney would love to focus on the Democratic incumbent in the campaign for governor. But first, one must eliminate the other [...]

Byline: CHOE SANG-HUN, MARTIN FACKLER, ALISON LEIGH COWAN and SCOTT SAYARE SEOUL, South Korea -- After all the lavish galas in his honor at landmarks like the Louvre and Versailles, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSEOUL, South Korea -- After all the lavish galas in his honor at landmarks like the Louvre and Versailles, the tens of thousands of devotees following his religious teachings [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- In his 16 years as the Catholic Church's top official in New York, Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor was a staunch friend and defender of the Jewish [...]

STAMFORD, Conn. -- This state's Republicans, counting on widespread concern over Connecticut's financial picture to lift their electoral fortunes, descended upon the Mohegan Sun resort in Uncasville on Friday to [...]

The family of Msgr. Patrick J. Garvey, a Catholic priest who was once friendly with the realist painter Thomas Eakins, is trying to block the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from selling [...]

GREENWICH, Conn. -- Sal Materia and his brother Enzo have made a patch of heaven for themselves here on Greenwich's western fringe. There is a gambrel-roofed house, a patio filled [...]

The singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Edie Brickell held hands in a Connecticut courtroom on Monday and told a judge they were not a threat to each other, after they were [...]

NEW HAVEN -- Ten years after he resigned in disgrace from Connecticut's highest office, former Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded not guilty on Friday to an indictment on campaign-related charges [...]

Last week he was holding forth as usual on hot-button topics like Benghazi and big government, and bantering with on-air guests who addressed him by his former title, ''Governor.'' John [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA woman who was mauled and blinded by a 200-pound chimpanzee in 2009 will not be able to sue the State of Connecticut, a legislative judiciary committee in Hartford [...]

John G. Rowland, a three-term Republican governor of Connecticut who resigned in 2004 under a cloud of corruption charges, has been implicated in a new investigation of improper campaign financing, [...]

THOMPSON, Conn. -- Mario Buatta has decked out aristocratic homes for America's nouveau riche, freshened up dowdy landmarks in the nation's capital and in just five years completed a top-to-bottom [...]