The EU 's top antitrust official said today that the Royal Bank of Scotland -- parent of Citizen Bank Connecticut -- grew so big during a banking boom that it was "simply too big to operate and supervise." EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said banks' ballooning balance sheets should have set off investor's alarm bells and that she was now ...
Charles Dickens opened his Victorian-era novel "A Tale of Two Cities" with these famous lines: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness .. ." I found Dickens' contradictions particularly helpful for understanding the totality of global environmental problems, as recently ...
The family of a 17-year-old Connecticut teen who was buried up to his neck on a Rhode Island beach is warning others about the dangers of digging holes in the sand.
A 17-year-old Connecticut resident who spent hours digging a hole on a Rhode Island beach and was buried up to his lips when the walls of the hole collapsed has been released from the hospital, a rescue official said Wednesday.
A 17-year-old boy from Scotland, Conn., has been taken by helicopter to Rhode Island Hospital after a hole he spent hours digging on a Charlestown beach collapsed and buried him up to his neck.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hugged the convicted Lockerbie bomber and promised more cooperation with Britain in gratitude for his release, while London and Washington condemned his "hero's welcome" home.
Scotland released on Thursday a former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, because he is dying of cancer.
Thumbs up to the students from the Student Conservation Association who participated in a five-week summer work program, the first project SCA has sponsored in Bridgeport, designed to create a mile-long trail behind the Discovery Museum in Veterans Memorial Park.
Connecticut officials say a former teacher arrested for allegedly sending sexually explicit text messages to a high school student in Killingly was suspended two years ago for an incident involving another student.