Shop that sells handmade items opens in Ridgefield Found: 46 Minutes ago The News-Times - RIDGEFIELD - About five years ago Peter Dramani, who calls himself "Dagando" was living on the streets in Ghana, Africa. He didn't know when or where his next meal would come from.
Today, thanks to his woodcarving skills, he has been able to afford his own apartment and workshop, and even send his family members to school....
Bethel teen is missing Found: 47 Minutes ago The News-Times - BETHEL - A 15-year-old girl is missing, and police are asking for help in finding her.
Katlyn Leonard walked away from Bethel High School at about 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police said, and has not returned home or contacted her family.
Police said Katlyn has no money or a cell phone and no specific destination is known....
State housing market sets records Found: 48 Minutes ago The News-Times - Connecticut's housing market set 20-year records in November 2008, and not in a good way.
The Warren Group, the Boston-based publisher of The Commercial Record and other publications, on Thursday reported a 26.6 percent drop in single-family home sales and a 16....
Democrats back Obama stimulus plan Found: 48 Minutes ago The News-Times - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Connecticut lawmakers are ready to get behind a tax-and-spend stimulus plan President-elect Barack Obama says offers some hope of alleviating an otherwise dire economic future.
"President-elect Obama's remarks today reaffirmed that our economy is in a state of emergency," Sen....
Saying goodbye to a brother and one of Danbury's finest Found: 50 Minutes ago The News-Times - On the weekend Roger Bertalovitz shipped out to Vietnam from California in the late 1960s, his brother, Roy, was living in San Francisco, just a bridge away from Roger's base in Oakland.
Roy, a former U.S. Marine, knew what it meant to serve your country....
Online company puts price tag on White House Found: 50 Minutes ago The News-Times - The Obamas might not have been so eager to bring children into the White House if they had an early view of a report Zillow.com released Thursday.
The online real estate company, which calculates and values homes across the United States, put a price of $308,058,000 on the White House - and that's without the technology and antiques....
Teacher's dog wins state recognition Found: 50 Minutes ago The News-Times - NEW MILFORD - Dave Shaffer, chairman of the math department at New Milford High School, isn't the only one in his household winning state recognition these days.
Emma, the 10-year-old black-and-tan dachshund he and his wife, Debby, own, will be honored Feb....
Side Street Cafe and Catering opens Found: 51 Minutes ago The News-Times - BETHEL - Large green cacti, sunny beaches and hot temperatures.
That's what comes to mind when you enter Side Street Cafe and Catering, which just opened on Grassy Plain Street. Many of the Southwestern dishes co-owner and chef James Bernier serves were inspired by the years he lived in Arizona....