In Tana Toraja, a mountainous region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, villagers pour massive resources into funeral rituals: lavish feasts, ornate effigies and prized water buffaloes for sacrifice. I witnessed ...

DERBY: Wesley G. Plaveck, age 83, entered eternal rest on January 14, 2026, at Griffin Hospital in Derby. He was the beloved husband of fifty-seven years to Patricia (Peterson) Plaveck.

Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump ...

Two people suffered burns during a house fire in Milford on Sunday. The fire broke out at a home on Benson Street during the ...

The defendant is accused of running over an elderly Shelton couple as they left a funeral in Seymour and then fleeing the scene.

Two people were transported Sunday with burn injuries to Bridgeport Hospital after a house fire on Benson Street in Milford, ...

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Eight residents were displaced as a two-family home in Milford sustained heavy damage in an early-morning New Year’s Day fire, according to Fire Chief Mark Nelson. No one was injured in the fire at 36 ...

Investigators say a shooting outside a church in Salt Lake City that killed two people and injured six others grew out of a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral.

"Weather conditions are a huge factor during fire operations and snow has the potential to delay necessary tasks from getting ...