News on Connecticut

Home Care Costs Elderly

2010-03-08T13:05:35Z

Angeline DiBeneditto is photographed at home in Waterbury, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. DiBeneditto, 89, is legally blind and gets skilled nursing services, a companion/homemaker and Meals on Wheels. DiBeneditto, living on a limited income, is now paying 15 percent of the cost of ser...

Seniors pinched by new charges for home care help

2010-03-08T13:03:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Seniors who want to avoid nursing homes worry over new charges for home care, meals, nurses</div><div><p>Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBeneditto from the home she's had for more than six decades.</p><p>Now, though, changes in a Connecticut program that helps her and others live independently could ...

CORRECTION Home Care Costs Elderly

2010-03-08T13:05:33Z

Feds look at worker fatigue in Conn. blast

2010-03-06T11:15:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Federal investigators looking into whether worker fatigue played a role in Conn. explosion</div><div><p>A federal agency investigating a power plant explosion in Connecticut that killed six workers last month says some workers were putting in long hours and they're looking into whether fatigue played a role.</p><p>Authorities say the Feb. 7 explosion at the Journal Register names former Synarc CFO as its chief financial officer</div><div><p>Journal Register Co., publisher of the New Haven Register in Connecticut and other newspapers, said Thursday it named the former chief financial offic...

Another worker injured in Conn. explosion sues

2010-03-04T14:15:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Another worker injured in Connecticut power plant explosion sues companies</div><div><p>Another worker injured in a Connecticut power plant explosion last month that killed six workers has filed a lawsuit accusing the companies handling the project of negligence.</p><p>Authorities say the Feb. 7 explosion at the K...

Experts: Mating season may explain hawk attacks

2010-03-04T13:31:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Experts: Mating season may explain red-tailed hawk's dive-bomb attacks in Conn. town</div><div><p>Wildlife experts say love could be in the air for a red-tailed hawk with a penchant for dive-bombing people in a Connecticut town.</p><p>The belligerent bird is probably trying to impress potential mates and protect its nest as it enters its mating season, they say — and woe to unsuspecting p...

Conn. town warns residents about harmful hawk

2010-03-03T18:30:53Z

<div id="subtitle">Conn. town warns residents about hawk that has attacked at least 5 people and a car</div><div><p>Authorities say an aggressive red-tailed hawk has attacked at least five people recently in a Connecticut town, including a woman who needed medical care after being cut on the head.</p><p>Police in Stonington, a shoreline town bordering Rhod...

Doyle signs state ban on BPA in children's cups

2010-03-03T14:45:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Doyle signs new law banning chemical BPA from baby bottles, children's cups</div><div><p>The potentially dangerous chemical Bisphenol-A will be banned in all cups sold in Wisconsin for young children under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Jim Doyle.</p><p>Wisconsin is the third state, after

Food and Frams Dairies to Vineyards

2010-03-03T09:34:19Z

Bare vines are seen at the Hopkins Vineyard in Warren, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. The land on which grapes are now grown, was once a dairy farm. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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Cows to chardonnay: Can Conn. dairy farms change?

2010-03-03T02:15:25Z

<div id="subtitle">Cows to chardonnay: Can dwindling Conn. dairy farms convert to grape-growing and winemaking?</div><div><p>A winter breeze rustles through the brittle and dormant vines twisting along the hills of Bill Hopkins' vineyard, the latest transformation of a Connecticut farm that since 1786 has been keeping up with changing agriculture, markets and cons...

States that are considering credit check bans

2010-03-01T10:30:09Z

<div id="subtitle">States that are considering credit check bans</div><div><p>State legislators in the following states have proposed bills to ban credit checks on most job applicants, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures:</p><p>_ Connecticut, Conn. home die when their car crashes into utility pole</div><div><p>A teenager driving with his younger sister has crashed into a utility pole near their Connecticut home, killing both of them.</p><p>Police say the crash happened Sunday afternoon in Milford, a city of about 50,000 residents an hour north...

Louisville Connecticut Basketball

2010-02-28T13:32:08Z

Connecticut's Gavin Edwards, left, loses the ball while Louisville's Jared Swopshire defends during the first half of an

Senate roll vote on tax breaks for new hires

2010-02-24T09:30:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Roll Vote: Senate approves tax breaks for businesses that hire the unemployed</div><div><p>The 70-28 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate passed a jobs bill offering tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed workers.</p><p>A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill.</p><p>Voting yes were 55 Democrats, 13 Conn. power plant explosion</div><div><p>Authorities investigating the cause of a power plant explosion in Connecticut that killed six workers say they've obtained an additional search warrant for the site.</p><p>The new warrant allows investigators to seize and analyze evidence found during the original search warrant, which expired Tuesday...

Pratt & Whitney to lay off 163 Conn. workers

2010-02-23T14:15:48Z

<div id="subtitle">Pratt & Whitney to lay off 163 Conn. workers weeks after losing lawsuit preventing job shifts</div><div><p>Pratt & Whitney plans to lay off 163 workers at two jet engine repair plants in Connecticut, the company said Tuesday, less than three weeks after a federal judge blocked it from transferring jobs out of the state.</p><p>The subsidiary of Conn. blast</div><div><p>Preliminary reviews by several state agencies have failed to reveal any problems that could have caused a Connecticut power plant to explode earlier this month, killing five people and wounding a dozen others.</p><p>The head of the state's publ...

Lamont announces candidacy for governor

2010-02-22T09:13:09Z

<div id="subtitle">Lamont a candidate for Conn. governor, cites business experience, rejecting public financing</div><div><p>Ned Lamont announced Tuesday he is a candidate for Connecticut governor, vowing to build on the excitement of his 2006 Senate bid and rejuvenate the state's flagging economy.</p><p>Addr...

Death Row Elderly

2010-02-14T13:00:48Z

FILE - In this May 27, 1947 file photo, Leroy Nash, second left, is shown while being held by police in Dallas for Connecticut police investigating the shooting of a Danbury, Conn. police officer. Also pictured are Patrolman W.A. Davis<...