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'Doctor Who,' 'Girls,' Lorne Michaels among Peabody Award winners

2013-03-27 13:42:00

"Doctor Who" is celebrating 50 years on the air this year, new episodes begin airing Saturday and to top it all off, the good Doctor has just received a Peabody Award for 50 years of "evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known...

Newtown families speak to Connecticut lawmakers about gun issues

2013-01-28 14:05:00

It was a bloody rampage on Connecticut more than a month ago that brought gun control back onto the national political stage, so it was appropriate that state’s Legislature became one of the first Monday to publicly wrestle with the thorny questions...

306,000 in Connecticut are -- still -- without power

2011-11-04 16:36:45

Mark Twain House employee embezzled $1 million

2011-08-09 16:35:22

Book review: 'The Forgotten Founding Father' by Joshua Kendall

2011-05-08 00:00:00

The Forgotten Founding Father Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture Joshua Kendall Putnam: 355 pp., $26.95 Reading Joshua Kendall's smart new biography of the pioneering lexicographer Noah Webster Jr. (1758-1843) brings to...

Time for Comcast to up commitment to NBC, local news

2011-01-22 04:32:27

PASSINGS: Stephen Barnett, Douglas Duitsman, Erich Lehmann

2009-10-18 00:00:00

Stephen Barnett Vocal critic of California court system Stephen Barnett, 73, a 1st Amendment professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a prominent critic of the state court system, died Tuesday in Berkeley of complications from cardiac...

Ken Ober dies at 52; host of MTV's 'Remote Control' game show

2009-11-17 00:00:00

Ken Ober, a comedian and actor who as host of MTV's "Remote Control" in the 1980s guided the raucous question-and-answer trivia contests on the irreverent cable TV game show, was found dead Sunday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 52. Lee Kernis of...

Sculptor carving 563-foot likeness of Crazy Horse

2007-08-15 00:00:00

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the L.A. Times on April 25, 1980. -------------------- Crazy Horse, S.D. -- The tall, heavyset sculptor with flowing gray beard stood outside his mountain tomb puffing on a cigar and musing aloud: "I...

Joza Karas dies at 82; musician revived compositions by Jews in concentration camp

2008-12-26 00:00:00

Joza Karas, a Czechoslovakian-born violin teacher who spent decades tracking down and reviving musical compositions written by Jews in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, died Nov. 28 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 82 and had congestive...

Noah Webster: The definition of Yankee know-how

2008-10-15 00:00:00

Were it not for Noah Webster Jr., the farm boy from West Hartford, Conn., who would have been 250 on Thursday, Americans might all be reading their newspapers from back to front today. As the War for Independence was winding down, the linguistic...

A parallel wartime experience

2005-08-28 00:00:00

"A Return to Wartime Philippines" [Special Asia Issue, Aug. 7] was quite a bittersweet nostalgia trip for me. Like the author's mother, Leanne Blinzler Noe, I lived in the Philippines from 1938 to 1947. All my experiences parallel hers. However, I...

West Hartford Wheel Fun Day

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Donald Fenton, 77, will graduate from UConn Law School on Sunday.

2013-05-17 13:40:00

Students at Bristow Middle School in West Hartford raised more than $900 for the Take Steps for Crohn's and Colitis Walk through the student council's "Quarters for Crohn's and Colitis" campaign, according to an email from Principal Andrew Morrow.

2013-05-17 08:18:00