Canterbury News

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - - Titans quarterback Vince Young didn't expect to speak Saturday during his mentor's funeral.

The key to another magic carpet ride is in the ignition. And Donald Thomas, the former UConn and current Miami Dolphins guard, is ready to turn it over.

The state transportation department has given preliminary approval for reconstructing the roughly half-mile stretch of Mix between the Giamatti Little League complex and Coventry Road.

Two former managers of a Big Dig contractor pleaded guilty Wednesday to being part of a conspiracy to deliver substandard concrete to the massive highway project.

The start was delayed nearly an hour by a storm. Broshuis allowed six hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, 17, won the eighth season of 'Dancing With The Stars' on May 19.

Walmart announced today it will close the New Britain Walmart store, located at 655 Farmington Avenue, on August 31.

Rain, thunder, lightning, hail, a tornado. Can the locusts be far behind? We've reached our soggy bottom.

Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" comes out this weekend, and while he plans to continue directing, he says this is likely to be his last acting gig.

Police said a broken leg was the only injury from a head-on collision in Canterbury on Wednesday morning.

Even as another snowstorm headed toward Maryland , the state school board gave its superintendent yesterday the authority to shorten the academic year by two days to help local school systems make up time lost to last week's record-setting snowstorm.

Time for a close-up of the luxury-loving, soft-coated wheaten terrier. With so many luxury hotels putting on the dog these days, Darby and his owner were curious.

Before the sky opened and the Travelers Championship was stopped at 4:25 p.m. Friday, the TPC River Highlands hosted a day of synchronized umbrella dancing.

Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's wife, Patricia Blagojevich, has finally been ejected from "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here." Here's a look back at the high- and lowlights of her exploits.

Ed McMahon died early Tuesday morning at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Westwood, according his publicist Howard Bragman.

For Julianna Cameron of Colchester , art has always been a way of life. She graduated from the Hartford Art School in 1981 with a degree in fine arts and has worked as a graphic designer/ art director for 15 years.

Deep River artist Lois Phelps began drawing and painting at a young age. In her early 20s, she attended Norwich Art Academy to study oil painting.

Regional Submitted by Joanne Morrison on 2009-06-18.   Nutmeg State Federal Credit Union has joined forces with NBC 30 to present "Community Shred-It Day" on Saturday, June 20, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Nutmeg's Rocky Hill headquarters, 521 Cromwell Ave., at 137 Prospect Hill Road, East Windsor, and at 81 House St., Glastonbury.

Catherine M. Elliott of Simsbury is a contemporary artist, whose work is evocative of the American Impressionism style of painting.

In response to the June 6 article "As Usual, Good Times Pave The Way For Dave Matthews " [CTNews], I would like to give readers a different perspective.