Christopher Plummer, the elegantly voiced, Oscar-winning actor perhaps most fondly remembered for "The Sound of Music," died Friday at his home in Connecticut, his manager said in a statement. He was 91.
"Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply (...)
Chez Reavie took advantage of a three-shot swing at the 17th hole to win his first PGA Tour event in 11 years by four strokes at the Travelers Championship on Sunday.
Reavie birdied the penultimate hole where challenger Keegan Bradley made (...)
Jordan Spieth had an off day but still found himself in the lead after the second round at the Travelers Championship here Friday.
After opening with a superb 63, Spieth could manage only a pedestrian one-under-par 69 at TPC River Highlands in (...)
A Muslim businessman and his wife are suing a Connecticut yacht club on allegations club board members rejected their membership application because of their religion and falsely claimed they supported terrorism.
Kamran Farid, a co-founder the fruit (...)
Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska overcame a slow start and breezed past Jelena Ostapenko 7-5, 6-1 Tuesday night in the second round of the Connecticut Open.
Ostapenko had upset four-time New Haven champion Caroline Wozniacki in the first round and had a (...)
Four-time champion Caroline Wozniacki is out of the Connecticut Open.
The former top-ranked player from Denmark lost 7-5, 6-2 to Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia Monday in the first round of the final warmup for the US Open.
Wozniacki, now ranked 51st, (...)
US Republican Donald Trump on Saturday repeated his attack on President Barack Obama that he helped "found" Daesh (the so-called IS) and railed against media reports that his campaign is failing, at a campaign rally in Connecticut, a state where he (...)
Scotland's Russell Knox rocketed into Ryder Cup consideration when he sank a 12-foot par putt at the final hole to beat Jerry Kelly by one stroke and win the Travelers Championship in Connecticut Sunday.
On a day when Jim Furyk carded a record (...)
American Daniel Berger drove the green at the short par-four 15th hole for a two-putt birdie that put him into a four-way tie for the lead Friday halfway through the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut.
Joining Berger, who won his first (...)
Muslims around the US are facing backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including vandalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of violence.
Advocacy leaders say they have come to expect some (...)
Rebekkah Brunson had 14 points and 13 rebounds as defending WNBA champion Minnesota remained unbeaten with an 85-72 victory over Connecticut Friday. It is the best start in franchise history for the Lynx (6-0). Seimone Augustus had 23 points, six (...)
Connecticut's Tina Charles had 18 points and eight rebounds to become the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 800 career rebounds, as the Sun beat the San Antonio Silver Stars 83-79 in the WNBA Friday. Charles began the day four rebounds short (...)
US children and teenagers are being major targets seeing far more soda advertising than before, as marketers have expanded online, a study released on Monday.
The report, from the Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, also found (...)
Jelena Jankovic was sent crashing out of the New Haven Open Tuesday after being upset by Elena Vesnina in a match that was disrupted by a rare east coast earthquake.
The seventh seeded Serb Jankovic was unable to shake off the two-hour delay caused (...)
seeded Marion Bartoli of France beat Australia's Anastasia Rodionova 6-1, 6-4 in the first round of the New Haven Open Monday.
After cruising 6-1 in the first set, Bartoli struggled in the second before breaking Rodionova to secure her first-round (...)
Tina Charles scored eight of her 24 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Connecticut Sun to an 85-79 win over the New York Liberty in the WNBA Tuesday. The Sun won their third straight game and moved into sole possession of first place in the (...)
Rookie Danielle McCray scored a career-high 22 points to help the Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana Fever 76-71 in the WNBA Sunday. Tina Charles added 18 points and 10 rebounds for the Sun (8-5) who are the lone team in the Eastern Conference (...)
Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky won his second tournament of the year, beating Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Pilot Pen Tennis Championship Saturday.
Stakhovsky is unbeaten in four career ATP finals, including a win in Hertogenbosch this (...)
Caroline Wozniacki will take the top seed and the confidence of a third straight WTA title in New Haven into the US Open next week.
The Dane defeated Russian eighth seed Nadia Petrova 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 Saturday to claim a third consecutive crown in the (...)
Russian fourth seed Elena Dementieva led a host of seeds into the quarterfinals of the WTA and ATP New Haven Hardcourt Tournament Wednesday with a tough three-set triumph.
Dementieva outlasted Ukraine's Kateryna Bondarenko 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (5-7), 6-4 (...)
American Bubba Watson broke through for his first PGA Tour victory Sunday at the Travelers Championship, sinking a nervous three-foot par putt on the second playoff hole to defeat Scott Verplank and Corey Pavin.
The win was Watson's first from 122 (...)
The ownership of tens of billions of dollars of art and other goods could be thrown into doubt if a lawsuit seeking the return of a famous Vincent Van Gogh painting is successful, according to a court filing by Yale University.
The university sued (...)
Former supermodel Stephanie Seymour has come to a closed-door agreement with a security guard who was accused of shoving her into a door at her Connecticut home.
Seymour got into a dispute with guard Joseph Babnik in June when he was watching the (...)
Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark successfully defended her Pilot Pen title by beating Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-2, 6-4 in the final Saturday.
The 19-year-old Wozniacki won her sixth career title, and third this year, and goes into next week's US Open (...)
The top seeds in both the men's and women's events at the New Haven Open lost Thursday as Russian pair Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nikolay Davydenko bowed out with quarterfinal defeats.
World No. 6 Kuznetsova was unable to shake off former number one (...)