Police in Connecticut say they have arrested a woman suspected of robbing at least six banks in the past week.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay and lesbian couples have the right to get married.
Gay couples from across the country are one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding
On Sundays, Jeanne McEvoy sits in the office of her Loveland, Colo., liquor store and turns away customers.
Federal energy regulators on Thursday approved a $700 million liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound, a facility opposed by critics who say it would damage the environment and be vulnerable to a terrorist attack
Underrated: George Washington. They've outscored opponents by an average of 12.3 points. They've won 20-of-23 games. And they have senior guards: Kimberly Beck (13.6 points, 6.3 assists) and Sarah Jo Lawrence (whose 3.85 GPA is more impressive than her 13.2 points). Add to that wins over tournament darling Texas A&M and Auburn (their first-round opponent). Traveling across the country -- the Colonials play at Stanford's Maples Pavilion -- won't be easy, but this is a veteran team with tournament success. Last year, George Washington advanced to the Sweet 16.
I took up piano when I was 8 years old, after my father suggested that I use my spare time for music lessons instead of a paper route. By junior high I was joining bands. I kept at it, playing throughout college, in law school - and now in my Ridgefield, Conn., law office.
A casual shopper might think that the last thing the world needs is another snack food company, but that didn't stop Kelly Flatley and Brendan Synnott, two high school friends who wanted to redefine the natural-foods market with their homemade nutty granola.
Dear FSB: I have a business in two states, Connecticut and Florida. When I am in one office, I always need to access files in the other office. How can I access my other computer remotely to work on files and applications in the other office? P.S. I can't break the bank.
New England's first major winter storm of 2008 snarled the Monday morning commute with heavy snow and closed hundreds of schools
Police in Connecticut say they have arrested a woman suspected of robbing at least six banks in the past week.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay and lesbian couples have the right to get married.
Gay couples from across the country are one step closer to a Massachusetts wedding
On Sundays, Jeanne McEvoy sits in the office of her Loveland, Colo., liquor store and turns away customers.
Federal energy regulators on Thursday approved a $700 million liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Long Island Sound, a facility opposed by critics who say it would damage the environment and be vulnerable to a terrorist attack
Underrated: George Washington. They've outscored opponents by an average of 12.3 points. They've won 20-of-23 games. And they have senior guards: Kimberly Beck (13.6 points, 6.3 assists) and Sarah Jo Lawrence (whose 3.85 GPA is more impressive than her 13.2 points). Add to that wins over tournament darling Texas A&M and Auburn (their first-round opponent). Traveling across the country -- the Colonials play at Stanford's Maples Pavilion -- won't be easy, but this is a veteran team with tournament success. Last year, George Washington advanced to the Sweet 16.
I took up piano when I was 8 years old, after my father suggested that I use my spare time for music lessons instead of a paper route. By junior high I was joining bands. I kept at it, playing throughout college, in law school - and now in my Ridgefield, Conn., law office.
A casual shopper might think that the last thing the world needs is another snack food company, but that didn't stop Kelly Flatley and Brendan Synnott, two high school friends who wanted to redefine the natural-foods market with their homemade nutty granola.
Dear FSB: I have a business in two states, Connecticut and Florida. When I am in one office, I always need to access files in the other office. How can I access my other computer remotely to work on files and applications in the other office? P.S. I can't break the bank.
New England's first major winter storm of 2008 snarled the Monday morning commute with heavy snow and closed hundreds of schools
Connecticut public high schools will begin offering online courses to students next month, according to Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
A deadly winter storm brought snow and sleet to the Northeast on Thursday, while crews in the Plains and Midwest worked to restore power to hundreds of thousands
Looking for some offbeat ways to spend a day in New England as the final weeks of summer give way to the golden days of autumn?
Bonds dipped Wednesday as profit taking from a recent rally overshadowed the release of soft economic reports. The dollar gained slightly against the euro and the yen.
After six weeks of strategy and sweat, a coalition of high school teams from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada took the top prize at the FIRST Robotics competition, otherwise known as the "Superbowl of Smarts."
In an interview with SI a few weeks ago, Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma sang the praises of his well-balanced, no-star team. "I like the fact that they don't look at anyone other than themselves to try to do it for them," he said. "For the whole season, I think that is a great way to go. But come tournament time, I still like the idea of having one person in the huddle that you know on any given night, on any given possession, can get you whatever you need. That would be my only concern going forward."
On Friday, Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma was asked about the challenges of playing against N.C. State, a senior-led team that was getting extra motivation from the valiant battle its coach, Kay Yow, was fighting against Stage 4 breast cancer. "Their season is going to end sometime," he said. "If not tomorrow, then Monday or next weekend."
Five years ago Gillian Goring was one of the most sought-after women's basketball recruits in the country. A 6-foot-7 center with rare agility and an array of post moves, she could run the floor, shoot the three and catch any pass that came anywhere close to her. Some compared her to Lisa Leslie or Dikembe Mutombo, while Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma, who desperately wanted to sign her, called her "the female Olajuwon." The coach who did get her signature could pencil in double-doubles most nights, All-America awards every year and three or four national titles.
Manhattan and the metropolitan area of Stamford/Norwalk, Conn. have the highest paying taxpayers among U.S. counties and cities.
Americans commonly use credit cards as part of their family finances. Sometimes the reliance on credit cards leads to an unhealthy amount of debt. CNN.com asked readers how they deal with credit card debt and asked them to share their stories. Here is a selection of responses, some of which have been edited.
The top teams continue to show they're ready to contend for the national title. Candace Parker and her Tennessee teammates certainly looked primed for the postseason in Saturday's win over Connecticut.
Four more years in the classroom should be looking pretty good to high school graduates if future salary is important to them, according to new Census data released Thursday.
In September, when Amaranth Advisors cratered after losing billions on bad natural-gas bets and Pirate Capital became the subject of an SEC investigation, other Connecticut hedge fund managers grew...
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Q Around the watercooler at work, people have been talking about "covered calls." Are covered calls a safe investment? Are they even something the average investor should be thinking about? --Dave ...
I've long believed that 90% of coaching is hiring. If you start with good people, they will do good work and accomplish more, with less supervision.
Several courthouses in Connecticut were shut down and evacuated Friday after authorities received threats directed toward state and county courthouses and "state facilities," the state police said.
I recently graduated from college and am working at my first full-time job. I'm trying to save for retirement and a down payment for a house.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Wednesday called claims that the No Child Left Behind Act isn't fully funded "a red herring," and suggested states that are balking may simply fear seeing the test results.
I'm 25 years old, have about $30,000 in my 401(k) and carry a $3,500 balance on my credit cards. I'm thinking about stopping my 401(k) contributions to pay off my credit-card debt. What do you think?
In New England's first execution in 45 years, the state of Connecticut put serial killer Michael Ross to death early Friday.
Staring at the dreaded 2004 tax handbook with a sense of impending doom? Maybe you should crack open the Yellow Pages--not for an accountant, but for a travel agent. Your destination: the Dutch Iri...
Merrill Lynch agreed Tuesday to pay $13.5 million in fines to New Jersey and Connecticut for failing to supervise a group of brokers who engaged in improper market timing of mutual funds.
At a time of unprecedented giving, the FBI warns that Internet scams are emerging.
Health insurer Anthem Inc. said Tuesday it has received a subpoena from the Connecticut attorney general probing the company's dealings with its brokers.
IN THE DAYS BEFORE THE EXPIRATION of the Clinton era "assault weapons" ban on Sept. 14, L.A. police chief Bill Bratton warned of "carnage," while the NRA talked of a "monumental accomplishment." Ca...
Over the past 15 years, federal prosecutors in Connecticut have indicted four mayors, taken down the state treasurer, put palm-greasing bankers behind bars and won a guilty plea from a top aide to the governor. But in the past four months, their corruption probe of former Gov. John G. Rowland's administration has taken a particularly aggressive turn.
Three men have been arrested in New Haven, Connecticut, for the apparently random shootings earlier this week that wounded five people, police announced Friday.
I'm 53 and thinking of semi-retiring in a year or so. Do you think I'd be better off buying individual corporate bonds or bond funds?
A snowstorm passed over the Northeast on Wednesday morning, but most of the precipitation fell offshore, according to the National Weather Service.
A fast moving snowstorm failed to reach New England as predicted, but squatted over New Jersey and New York, dumping more than a foot of flakes in one area.
Another crook in the ranks of corporate execs? Yes, but this is different: Connecticut-based Trilegiant, which sells credit-monitoring products, recently hired Frank Abagnale because of his crimina...
Jack Welch must be cursing the day he moved to Connecticut. His wife Jane's take in the divorce proceedings (which recently began after she passed on an offer of $20 million of his estimated $900 m...
They're the latest must-have divorce accessory. No, not high-powered attorneys or prenups with expiration dates, but specially trained certified divorce planners. The relatively new field has explo...
What handy five- by seven-inch contraption has the ability to fend off bad guys yet isn't endorsed by the NRA? A desktop label-printer. After Sept. 11, offices and trade shows have had to rethink h...
With armed guards and metal detectors in some schools, peanut butter might seem a low-level threat. But many school districts aren't treating the creamy lunchtime staple that way. An increasing num...
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When Connecticut officials dangled $375 million to lure the New England Patriots from Massachusetts to downtown Hartford last year, it seemed that this kind of corporate welfare had at last peaked....
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Reflecting today's sunny economic news, the market for managerial talent has been hot recently. The charts below, prepared by the Connecticut-based research organization Exec-U-Net, were derived fr...
When FORTUNE asked the question two issues ago, we unfortunately gave the wrong answers, due to incorrect data supplied by Moran Stahl & Boyer, a consulting firm specializing in business-location s...
Cell-phone connections can be fuzzy; so can their payment plans and bills. About 17% of Americans use cell phones, according to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, paying an avera...
The generals are leading, but the troops aren't following. No, I'm not talking about a mutiny in the military; I'm referring to the mutiny in the stock market. Since mid-1996, a small number of gro...
Oh, those entrepreneurs! Chris Zane, owner of a Branford, Connecticut, bicycle shop, didn't waste much time on sentiment when one of his nearby competitors folded. He quickly bought its yellow page...
Q. A broker from Merrill Lynch offered me a new product called retail deposit notes. He said they're issued by banks, so they're federally insured, and are similar to certificates of deposit. He ad...
AS RECENTLY AS THE 1950S, MOST PEOPLE had just two choices when they wanted headache relief: They could take an aspirin, or they could take two aspirin. Today, however, the shelves of drugstores pr...
A renewed turf war has broken out between New York City and towns in Connecticut and New Jersey intent on siphoning off its jobs. It's symptomatic of unceasing job relocation auctions nationwide.
Look at your company's budget: Add up all you spend for accounting, advertising, brochures, catalogues, communications, computers, conventions, faxing, newsletters, networks, overheads, research, s...
What ethnic group in the U.S. has grown fastest--without the help of immigration? Native Americans, whose numbers soared 137%, to about two million, from 1970 to 1990.
If you tend to drive above the speed limit, hit the brakes before you get hit in the wallet this summer. Speeding fines are accelerating at a frightening pace. Just ask all-American talk-show host ...
The migration of America's industrial leaders to the South and West continues. Some are older companies, lured by cheap land, low taxes, good weather, and right-to-work laws. Others are newcomers, ...
Q Last June, my wife gave birth to a beautiful little girl. The obstetrician called the birth precipitous because we arrived at the delivery room only four minutes before Karen was born. It was a w...
High-tech thieves are getting better at defrauding users of ATMs -- meaning you need to be more vigilant than ever about guarding the privacy of your transactions. In the latest case, the Secret Se...
Taxpayers have been tense and testy for months. The mood emerged not long after President Clinton announced his economic plan in February. Then, as the "deficit reduction" bills worked their way th...
Thanks to the free market, people who love clean air can now put their money where their breath is. You can buy the rights to disgorge SO2 -- or sulfur dioxide, a component of acid rain -- then sit...
More discipline and higher standards. It sounds like a recipe for military reform, but respondents to MONEY's March Readers' Poll believe it is also the answer to the question we posed: How would y...
You've probably never heard of Advo, but the Windsor, Conn. firm (estimated 1993 revenues: $845 million) has almost certainly heard of you. Each week, Advo, the nation's leading direct marketer, fl...
Chalk up another conquest for privacy-invading computers. A service called LoanWatch, launched in 1991 by the Walnut Creek, Calif. firm Foster Ousley Conley, is amassing financial information about...
''What Clinton is trying to do is a step in the right direction. But we're all going to have to swallow a pretty bitter pill,'' says David Butler, an educator and small-business owner. He and his w...
He aqui siete organizaciones que son gratuitas o cobran un cargo nominal. Para localizarlas, consulte su guia telefonica, o vea la seccion en ingles para hallar las direcciones y telefonos. Usted t...
HARTFORD -- How's this for an icebreaker: The bartender brings your date a drink served with a cocktail napkin bearing a picture of a condom and a message in bold . . . letters: ''Please let this c...
Maybe you are considering moving to one of the top 10 places on our list. Or maybe even to No. 300: Waterbury, Conn. A little clever research where you live now, followed by a serious scouting trip...
MicroPatent of New Haven, Connecticut, takes advantage of the vast capacity of CD-ROMs to make easily available to interested companies the staggering amount of information contained in the 2,000 p...
& GEORGE MCGOVERN, 69, former U.S. Senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, on all the government regulations that contributed to the bankruptcy of his Stratford (Connecticut) Inn: ''First...
Ouch. You may just be starting to cope with the bigger hole in your paycheck from higher state income taxes. Or you may have to estimate those taxes earlier, or pay a little more for things you buy...
White collars and pink slips lately have combined to make a distressing fashion statement. Here's one strategy for the managers among the more than 200,000 white-collar workers fired this year: thi...
Move over, developers who see a 138-year-old Connecticut mill and think condo. Here's an Italian way to try and wring money out of just such an old building: Keep the place as a mill. That's what L...
The attempted bankruptcy filing by Bridgeport, Conn. this summer alerted fund investors to the risks of default in municipal bond funds. But shareholders may be less attuned to a more subtle danger...
So far this year, 35 revenue-hungry states have added new taxes designed to raise $18 billion. The biggest chunk, about $7.5 billion, is expected to come from higher personal income taxes. Since Co...
When Bridgeport, Conn. declared bankruptcy in June, municipal bond investors got yet another reminder that the finances of some states and localities are about as secure these days as a rope bridge...
Here's applause for your article on the chronically ill child, which I read as the parent of a child with kidney disease to whom I donated a kidney. I hope your article increases the awareness of t...
-- LOWELL P. WEICKER JR., 59, independent governor of Connecticut, on partisan criticism of his proposal for a state income tax: ''I don't think the people are going to stand for a political resolu...
ATTAKISKA VODKA Who says the U.S. can't stand up to imports? Mountaintop Corp. of Norwalk, Connecticut, is taking on Absolut, Stolichnaya, and other ''super premium'' vodkas with Attakiska. The pit...
Stretch your memory and search the attic: Metropolitan Life Insurance may have a windfall of up to $3,200 waiting with your name on it. The company is sitting on some $4.5 billion in life insurance...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, 43, Republican Congressman from Connecticut, to William M. Taylor, who acknowledged receiving more than $500,000 in cash and property from developers seeking housing benefits fro...
This table shows how the 10 best places rank in nine specific categories. The best possible score is 100, and in each case the top score in each category is highlighted in yellow. Note that Danbury...
-- Once the sick man of the U.S. economy, productivity is on the rise. It surged at an annual rate of 2.6% in the third quarter, more than double the rise last year and the biggest jump in 18 month...
The housing market has bounced back everywhere except the Northeast. Punctured by a two-point spike in mortgage rates, to 11% or so, new home sales across the country fell 13.2% last May, the sharp...
Amid the public protest over high interest rates on bank credit cards, consumers are learning that low-rate cards aren't always best. The key is how you use your card. The Consumer Credit Card Rati...
After a month of offering interest rates of 3% or less and cash rebates, American automakers plan to raise their rates to between 10.5% and 11% in most states, roughly the national average. In many...
The interest-rate war that erupted among Connecticut banks, following this , summer's passage of a usury law capping rates at 15%, has begun to affect other Northeastern banks. For example, Bank of...
Bars and nightclubs in Connecticut were told to stop ''ladies' night'' promotions after the state's Human Rights Commission ruled that they discriminated against men . . . Attorney General . . . Li...
On the freshly groomed Har-Tru courts of the Saddlebrook Golf and Tennis ! Resort near Tampa, Florida, 64 players from Seattle to St. Petersburg met on a steamy October weekend to decide the Lipton...
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