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Plans languish for overhaul of NYC's Penn Station
The busiest passenger train station in the United States is a 1960s-era, utilitarian labyrinth in the basement of a basketball arena. Pennsylvania Station, a gateway to the nation's biggest city, was designed to accommodate about 200,000 riders a day. Now, it is packed with more than 600,000. At rush hours, ...
Conn. Board of Regents taps Gray as president
The Connecticut Board of Regents has tapped California schools official Gregory W. Gray as the system's new president. Board members on Thursday formally approved Gray's recommendation and his contract, which includes an annual salary of $380,000 and use of a state vehicle. Gray is chancellor of the Riverside Community College ...
Conn. lawmakers seek federal funds for Newtown
Members of Connecticut's congressional delegation announced plans Thursday to try to secure federal funds to help Newtown build a new elementary school after last year's massacre — and they say senators owe the residents after failing to support legislation that would have expanded background checks for certain gun purchases. U.S. ...
No Jackpot Winner
None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Wednesday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were: 02-11-26-34-41 Powerball: 32 (two, eleven, twenty-six, thirty-four, forty-one; Powerball: thirty-two) Players matching all five numbers and the Powerball would have won or shared the $350 million jackpot. The prize goes to an ...
Prince Harry ends US visit with Conn. polo match
Britain's Prince Harry helped lead a polo team to victory in a charity match before a society crowd Wednesday in Greenwich, wrapping up a weeklong visit to the United States in which he also toured areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy and avoided the kind of salacious headlines stirred by his ...
Report: Feds' warnings about Sandy were confusing
Federal weather forecasts for Superstorm Sandy were exceptionally accurate last fall, but the warnings themselves were confusing, an internal review found. The gigantic October storm lost tropical characteristics hours before landfall in New Jersey, so the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stopped calling it a hurricane. Instead it shifted focus ...
United Tech donates $3M for Yale cancer research
Aerospace conglomerate United Technologies Corp. says it's donated $3 million to establish an endowed professorship at the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven Lieping Chen will be the first United Technologies Corp. Professor in Cancer Research. Chen is known for research leading to clinical trials of new cancer drugs that ...
Conn. chef set to feast on cicadas during invasion
Connecticut chef Bun Lai is already known for his Mexican grasshopper dish and his fried rice with meal worms and crickets. But he might soon also be recognized as the cicada chef. Lai, owner of Miya's Sushi, tells the New Haven Register (http://bit.ly/16eNZfy ) that he plans to fill a ...
Governor not invited to prince's polo match
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has been left off the guest list for Prince Harry's celebrity polo match in Greenwich. Malloy spokesman David Bedarz told the Greenwich Time (http://bit.ly/13wUWFv ) the governor was not invited to the exclusive charity event Wednesday at the Greenwich Polo Club, but brushed off the ...
Prince Harry tours storm-damaged NJ shore
Britain's Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entrepreneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance to play a little baseball. In Seaside Heights, where ...
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