New London (New London, Connecticut)

Planning your trip to Block Island

2011-08-07 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY TO BLOCK ISLAND, R.I. From LAX, connecting service (change of plane) to Providence, R.I., is offered on United, Southwest, US Airways, Delta and Continental. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $506. Take the ferry from Point Judith and...

Hike, bike and eat your fill of clams on Block Island

2011-08-07 00:00:00

I am standing atop Clay Head, a 70-foot-high bluff, looking over miles and miles of open ocean on a clear summer morning. It is an ideal way to greet a day that will include hiking, biking, birding, skimming stones and eating my weight in fried clams. And...

Rudy Giuliani thinks GOP should 'get the heck out of people's bedrooms'

2011-07-18 16:37:21

James Elliot dies at 67; MIT astronomer discovered rings of Uranus and atmosphere of Pluto

2011-03-20 21:21:00

James Elliot, the MIT astronomer who discovered the rings of Uranus and the faint atmosphere of Pluto, died March 3 at his home in Wellesley, Mass. He was 67 and had been suffering from cancer. The rings of Uranus are narrow and faint and not...

Inclement weather forces Air Force One to abort landing

2011-05-18 08:18:00

The plane carrying President Obama to Connecticut was forced to abort its initial landing Wednesday because of poor weather conditions. According to pool reporters traveling with the president on Air Force One, the Federal Aviation Administration...

The art (and design) of wine on display in San Francisco

2010-11-20 16:32:54

A three-speech day for President Obama, starting with the Coast Guard Academy graduation

2011-05-18 21:37:53

Bobby Wilks dies at 78; first African American Coast Guard pilot

2009-08-03 00:00:00

Bobby C. Wilks, the first African American Coast Guard aviator and the first African American to reach the rank of Coast Guard captain, died July 13 at an assisted-living community in Woodbridge, Va., of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 78....

Richard Goodwin, 96; noted environmentalist

2007-07-23 00:00:00

Richard H. Goodwin, a pioneering land preservationist and early president of the Nature Conservancy who negotiated the conservation group's first land purchase in California, a 3,000-acre stretch of virgin forest along the state's northern coast, has...

Go ahead, eat that cookie

2007-05-17 00:00:00

Health facts come and go: One minute fiber wards off cancer, the next minute it's ... well, fiber. Now one of the most famous health rules we live by is hanging by a thread: The 5-second rule, which states that you can eat a cookie that fell on the...

Death of a neighborhood

2007-08-07 00:00:00

With a lack of fanfare that could only be described as typical, the Los Angeles Unified School District last week finally details 50 Echo Park homes that had the bad manners to be standing where LAUSD planners want to build a perhaps-unnecessary...

When the government wants your property

2008-05-27 00:00:00

Today's question: Propositions 98 and 99 both claim to offer protection from eminent domain. Which one (if either) would be better for Californians? All week, California Republican Assembly President Mike Spence and Los Angeles County Democratic Party...

Vice President Joe Biden gives the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 132nd commencement in New London Wednesday.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

A female cadet sits among male classmates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 132nd commencement in New London Wednesday.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

Second-class cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy lay out the ensign hats for graduating cadets before commencement ceremonies in New London Wednesday.

2013-05-22 00:00:00