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A group of dieters in Plymouth area have decided to take their weight loss and use it to help others.

Mayors from the city and Plymouth told an audience of business leaders Tuesday that the General Assembly was making a bad year worse by dragging its feet in passing a state budget.

Retired University of Vermont coach Tom Brennan has been cut loose by ESPN after four years as an in-studio college basketball color analyst.

An unusual military funeral was held in Plainville on Friday as family and friends gathered to say goodbye to a man who was killed in the Korean War.

By Marco Eagle Staff Originally published 6:49 p.m., Friday, June 26, 2009 Updated 7:11 p.m., Friday, June 26, 2009 BRISTOL, Conn.

Two retired state troopers are facing first-degree larceny charges after allegedly embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from an electrical contracting company in which one of the men was a partner.

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell is ordering U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff Friday to honor an Army sergeant from Plainville who was killed in the Korean War.

The town of Burlington was planning a ceremony to celebrate its designation as a "HEARTsafe Community" by the American Heart Association, when its preparedness paid off on June 5. "I had left him for a minute to get tip money and he was dead on the ground," said Deb Greatsinger.

Religious Life Submitted by Linda Kerr on 2009-06-22.   Shown above in the picture accepting a check for $3,000 are Linda Kerr of St.

As Richard Gordon and Brendan McGarrett tried to elude police after allegedly robbing a Bristol bank, Gordon buried evidence, police said.

BEDFORD: Four music ensembles from Fox Lane Middle School in the Bedford Central School District recently traveled to Bristol, Conn., to perform in the High Note Music Festival at Lake Compounce.

A man who attempted to get payback for his brother's overdose death by threatening a Trumbull man in September pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

Police charged a 38-year-old Southington man with raping a minor over the five-year period from 2004 until this year.

Kerry Jones, who was a teacher and administrator in the Bristol schools, was appointed to her new job earlier this month and starts at Squadron Line July 1. The board of education started looking for a new principal for the school in March.

Submitted by Susannah Hogendorn on 2009-06-09.   Spencer Sloan Acme Monaco Corporation of New Britain received the 2008 United Way Community Campaign Champion Award at United Way of New Britain and Berlin's 69th annual community celebration on June 4. Shown above, left to right: Kristen Roberts, regional senior director of community and public ...

When the Chinese army surged into Korea shortly before the winter of 1950 in a bid to salvage the communist regime, the first American military unit to feel the brunt of its attack hunkered down in the mountains and fought back with legendary fierceness.

A Bristol woman is fighting for her life in Uganda. While working as a private contractor in Iraq, she met a man from Uganda and went to visit Africa.

When it opened in 2000, the Boulder Dash roller coaster at Lake Compounce Family Theme Park in Bristol, Connecticut was hailed as the tallest, fastest and longest wooden roller coaster in the eastern United States.

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