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Sometime earlier this year, one of the most elite social events in Washington took place, but without any fanfare or news coverage.

Rudy Boesch, a retired tough-as-nails Navy SEAL and fan favorite on the inaugural season of “Survivor,” has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Director of operations for the Seal Veterans Foundation, Steve Gonzalez, said Boesch died peacefully Friday night in hospice care in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was surrounded by loved ones. Boesch joined the...

Rudy Boesch, a retired tough-as-nails Navy SEAL and fan favorite on the inaugural season of “Survivor,” has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Director of operations for the Seal Veterans Foundation, Steve Gonzalez, said Boesch died peacefully Friday night in hospice care in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He was surrounded by loved ones. Boesch joined the...

The future food marketplace, called “Parkville Market,” is located at 1400 Park St. and is scheduled to open in early 2020.

A redevelopment project for a marketplace in the Parkville section of Hartford is expected to open in early 2020.

If you are looking to book a vacation to kick off the summer, Vermont’s Woodstock Inn and Resort has something for everyone. The 142 room resort, which started as a tavern more than 200 years ago, offers over 40 activities. Culinary programs, swimming in pools and streams, skiing and snowshoeing at Mt. Tom, hiking, and playing tennis and golf on...

If you are looking to book a vacation to kick off the summer, Vermont’s Woodstock Inn and Resort has something for everyone. The 142 room resort, which started as a tavern more than 200 years ago, offers over 40 activities. Culinary programs, swimming in pools and streams, skiing and snowshoeing at Mt. Tom, hiking, and playing tennis and golf on...

New Zealand’s foreign minister confirmed Monday that a New Zealand nurse has been held captive by the Islamic State group in Syria for almost six years, information long kept secret for fear her life might be at risk. The status of nurse and midwife Louisa Akavi, now 62, is unknown, but her employer, the International Committee of the Red Cross,...

The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities, prompting concerns from civil libertarians that those mistakenly placed on the list could face a wide variety of hassles in their daily lives. The government’s admission that it shares the list so broadly comes after years of insistence that...

Saving the life of a K9 officer can come down to seconds and a revolutionary device now available in the state will help law enforcement train better for the unexpected.

President Donald Trump was feeling the heat. Week after week, Trump had demanded that the government stay partially shuttered until Democrats agreed to pay for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Surrounded by a shrinking cast of advisers, he watched as federal workers went unpaid and basic services were frozen. His poll numbers were slipping. His arguments were landing with...

President Donald Trump and congressional leaders reached a deal Friday to temporarily reopen the government and end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Trump agreed to endorse a short-term funding bill that doesn’t include money for a border wall — something he had previously demanded as part of any continuing resolution to end the shutdown.

From power restaurants in Washington and a belt-buckle maker in Colorado to a brewery in California, businesses that count heavily on federal employees as customers are feeling the punishing effects of the government shutdown. In many cases, it’s forcing them to cut workers’ hours and buy less from suppliers — measures that could ripple through the larger U.S. economy.

For more than three decades Bread for Life has welcomed in those facing tough times. With the help of donations and volunteers, they serve seven hot meals a week in Southington, make deliveries to those who are homebound, and serve group lunches to seniors living in poverty.

Breweries across the country are uniting to help in the relief effort for last month’s deadly wildfire in northern California.

Few people outside of Wall Street had heard of Bernard Madoff before he confessed to his epic fraud in 2008. In the decade since, he has become the personification of greed — and a household name. Madoff and his inner circle have been featured in books, movies, even an off-Broadway play. Here is what has become of some of the major players.

Bars, restaurants and other public establishments are evaluating and rethinking security plans after the shooting at the Borderline bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Clear the Shelters is a great time to find a new family pet. Just like humans, some pets have a history and that history also means they could be a perfect fit for your family.

In the tense moments before a jury convicted Bill Cosby of sexual assault, the prosecutor who had branded him a “con man” and called him out for laughing during closing arguments started to worry about the global implications if the #MeToo era’s first big trial went the other way.

Two days after his conviction, Bill Cosby has already started life as an inmate — though his surroundings are far nicer than they likely will be in a few months. A judge says Cosby will be confined to the same suburban Philadelphia mansion where jurors concluded he drugged and molested a Temple University women’s basketball administrator, ordering him to be...