LOS ANGELES – Gidget the Chihuahua, the bug-eyed, big-eared star of 1990s Taco Bell commercials who was a diva on and off the screen, has died. She was 15. Gidget suffered a massive stroke late Tuesday...

TAREGNA, India – The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century created near darkness soon after dawn in a swath of India stretching from the west coast to the northern plains where millions gathered...

West Haven, Conn., July 15, 2009-While alternative medicine has been around for millennia, University of New Haven (UNH) senior James Hilaire says he may have discovered one of the newest, and most unusual,...

WASHINGTON - A gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. One security guard and the gunman were taken to a hospital.U.S. Park Police Sgt. David...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting an Obama administration request to maintain...

From The White House Press OfficeBY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATIONForty years ago, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City resisted police harassment that...

From The New Haven Register - by Mary E. O'Leary, Register Topics EditorWEST HAVEN -- In many ways, Maeda Hanafi is a typical kid.She likes to ride her bicycle, inline skate and play with friends, as well...

LONDON - Millvina Dean, who as a baby was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat in the frigid North Atlantic, died Sunday, having been the last survivor of 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.She was...

Dr. George Tiller, whose Kansas women's clinic was the epicenter of the state's battles over abortion for nearly two decades, was shot and killed at his church Sunday morning, his family said.Tiller, 67,...

WEST HAVEN, CONN -- June 1, 2009 - On Friday, May 29, the University of New Haven (UNH) launched the first web-based, 360-degree virtual tour in Connecticut, and is the sixth institution in the U.S. to...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's Supreme Court upheld the state's gay-marriage ban Tuesday but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that took place before the prohibition passed are still valid -- a ruling decried...

NEW DELHI - The Congress party headed to a resounding victory Saturday in India's monthlong national elections, defying expectations of a poor showing to secure a second term in power as the country battles...

New Haven, CT - (May 2008) - The Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of Connecticut, Inc. (WSWC) together with Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele; Jeffrey Levy, National Director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving...

AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine's governor signed a freshly passed bill Wednesday approving gay marriage, making it the fifth state to approve the practice and moving New England closer to allowing it throughout...

WEST HAVEN -- The University of New Haven women's lacrosse team defeated visiting Southern New Hampshire University, 12-7, at Ralph F. DellaCamera Stadium on Sunday afternoon to capture its first ever...