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Fall fashion: Blame it on the heels

 February 9, 2012

New York — New York Fashion Week begins Thursday, and amid all those images of sleek models showing off the newest designer creations are sure to be a few pictures of something far less glamorous: Models falling...

Photo gallery: Monday Monkey Business

 February 6, 2012

A must-see mix of animals from around the world.

Shadowy run in New London

 February 4, 2012

A jogger follows the trail around Fort Trumbull State Park Friday evening in New London.

Madonna channels Giants' Victor Cruz with salsa dance in Indy

 February 2, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Madonna won't explicitly say who she's rooting for, but her spot-on salsa dance in honor of the New York Giants Victor Cruz may have revealed where her allegiance lies.

Shorts weather in New London

 February 2, 2012

Valentine's Day wedding marathon held at New London's Centro de la Comunidad

 February 1, 2012

New London – Centro de la Comunidad will hold a "Love Now & Forever" Wedding Marathon on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.

Radiothon gives voice to men against domestic violence

 January 30, 2012

There's something about men speaking up against domestic violence that makes other men stand up and take notice-and take action.

Waterford Library sparks national celebration

 January 30, 2012

Sometimes, one good idea begets another. In December, Nadine Lipman was reading an article about Take Your Child to the Bookstore Day. As the head of children's services at Waterford Public Library, naturally, she imagined applying that...

Happy birthday to Pat Mitchell

 January 30, 2012

The Grand Dame of the area music scene, Pat Mitchell, will be deservedly feted with a birthday party Tuesday in the lounge at the Steak Loft in Olde Mistick Village.

CWA seeks nominations for annual award

 January 30, 2012

The Connecticut Women's Alliance, an organization committed to the recognition and promotion of women who serve as role models and mentors to others, will honor one Connecticut woman with the CWA Woman of Distinction Award this spring.

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City Bench works with gifts provided by nature

 January 29, 2012

When the grand old maple in front of Ivoryton Playhouse came down in 2010, it marked the loss not just of a tree but of some history.

It’s time for EagleWatch 2012

 January 29, 2012

Bill Yule knows that winter can't keep a true New Englander inside-not when there's a chance to see the bird that is the symbol of the United States of America.

Children’s Museum kicks back admission

 January 29, 2012

The Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, 409 Main St., Niantic, announces that admission to the museum has been rolled back to $6 per person through March 31. Children under 1 year old get in for free.

Boxed in at the post office

 January 27, 2012

Robert Nazarian of Ledyard makes an eBay trip to New London to send off some packages.

Traveling with a companion

 January 26, 2012

The National Weather Service predicts a chance of rain turning heavier after 7 p.m. in the Southeast Connecticut area. The mix of rain and sleet didn't affect a man and his dog traveling along the Lieutenant River in Old Lyme Thursday afternoon.

Perkins: What's wrong with this picture?

 January 26, 2012

Does anyone else in Waterford think it's kind of strange that we can spend more than $60 million to "renovate" our high school, yet we cannot fund our freshman sports programs? We continue to build these monuments to education, when the...

White: Patriot proud of this chocolate cream pie

 January 26, 2012

These days, there is little that interests me more than the National Football League’s playoffs. I said on a recent Saturday night, as nine of us ate dinner in...

UConn blue, white and platinum?

 January 25, 2012

The UConn blue and white will occasionally be supplemented with Nike's "Hyper Elite Platinum" uniforms for the men's and women's basketball teams.

Good intentions

 January 24, 2012

Selina Ortega, 7, of Groton attempts to sled down a hill at Washington Park in Groton on Monday, when mild temperatures melted much of the snow. But Selena and her 11-year-old brother, Jesus Ortega, made the best of it.

Photo gallery: Monday Monkey Business

 January 23, 2012

A must-see mix of animals from around the world.

Making the best of it

 January 23, 2012

NEW The warm temperatures today caused most of the snow in Groton's Washington Park to melt. Tomorrow's will seal the deal. The National Weather Service is predicting most sunny with temperatures near 48 degrees in...

UK scientists find ‘lost’ Darwin fossils

 January 22, 2012

British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years.

Books for children - Jan. 22

 January 22, 2012

BOOKS TO BORROW

Project to pour water into volcano to make power

 January 22, 2012

Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of a dormant volcano in Central Oregon this summer to demonstrate new technology they hope will give a boost to a green energy sector that has yet to...

Seafarers outraged that captain could jump ship

 January 21, 2012

Seafaring tradition holds that the captain should be last to leave a sinking ship. But is it realistic to expect skippers - only human after all - to suppress their survival instinct amid the horror of a maritime disaster? To ask them to...

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