Warren (Litchfield, Connecticut)

Warren Litchfield's kettle overflows with words that lift the heart and replenish the soul. And he casts his net wide, as one of the best-known and longest-serving unpaid chaplains in our midst. He tends to the flock at the Laurel Volunteer Fire...

Laurel resident Betty Baker, who retired in 1995 from her job as office manager at the Laurel Leader, died July 11, just shy of her 78th birthday. Like so many others in our humble hamlet whose world she colored, I was stunned and saddened. How could such...

How to look like a Blackhawks fan -- without looking like a lunatic? For some Chicago Blackhawks boosters, there is no such thing as too much. In case you doubt that statement, show up at any home game for a look at serious fanatics dressed to the max....

Even the city street-cleaning machines whirring through Wrigleyville are decked out like Cubs fans, painted white and Cubby blue. Yup, it's all Cubs all the time in the ballpark neighborhood, where stores and street vendors sell a scary huge selection...

The only thing you need to know to experience the joy of vintage jewelry shopping in Chicago? Go directly to The Antique and Resale Shoppe, left, 7214 N. Harlem Ave. (in an unlikely strip mall just north of Touhy Avenue), 773-631-1151; antiqueandresale....

Update: Former U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher has sold his Connecticut farmhouse-style home near Beverly Hills for $2.15 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service. The one-story, 4,000-square-foot house has three bedrooms and three...

Think of Amish Country, and the bucolic Pennsylvania Dutch countryside likely comes to mind. But take just one trip to another Amish Country, in east-central Ohio, and that association will be broken forever. There, tens of thousands of Amish —...

When Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark C. Warren of La Grande, Ore., received a diagnosis of depression soon after his deployment to Iraq, a military doctor handed him a supply of the mood-altering drug Effexor. Marine Pfc. Robert Guy, of Willards, Md., was given...

Results are listed in alphabetical order. Times listed indicate when runners crossed the finish line, not their elapsed time. The timing chip is not activated until the runners reach the starting line. Some hometowns were not available. Information...

The most disturbing evidence of Connecticut's long and profitable complicity in slavery lies hidden in plain sight in the town of Salem, in the fields and woods around an ice cream bar near Routes 11 and 82. There, archaeologists from Central Connecticut...

ILLINOIS Charles Bailey Jr. de, 6-1, 195, Northrop HS, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Brock Bolen, rb, 6-1, 230, Valley View HS, Springboro, Ohio. Anthony Brodnax, db, 6-1, 180, Lakeside HS, Lithonia, Ga. Sam Carson III, lb, 6-1, 225, Downers Grove South HS. Bryant...

About 70 years ago the great-granddaughter of a Waterbury doctor who practiced in the late 1700s donated a skeleton to the Mattatuck Museum that the doctor apparently had saved as an anatomical specimen. Its bones were labeled and a name, "Larry," was...