Let’s be clear about something: a tax cut while the government is running a deficit isn’t a tax cut. It’s a tax increase. It’s an increase because it was paid for with borrowed money. That money has ...

Once again this holiday season The Day will continue its long-running tradition of publishing its Make a Difference series. The daily series highlights our neighbors who area social service agencies ...

Three Native American tribes in Connecticut that were rejected for federal recognition decades ago by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs may soon be allowed to reapply for the designation, potentially ...

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers abruptly went on leave Wednesday from teaching at Harvard University, where he once served as president, over recently released emails showing he ...

Waterford — At the age of 14, Jeffrey Zapata began his career in barbering to help his family. "A plastic bucket was my first chair," he said of his early years learning the trade by cutting the hair ...

New York — Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets are staying together. A trade request that jolted the franchise and dominated NBA headlines has been removed. The Nets will return next season with their ...

The state Department of Transportation has announced right lane closures of the I-95 northbound lanes of the Gold Star Memorial Bridge in New London and Groton due to repair work. The work began ...

Play the latest sudoku puzzlesPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Authorities knocked on doors and scoured yards Monday in search of any video or other evidence that might lead them to the Brown University gunman ...

A dare and a $5 bet led to Cydonie Brown joining the U.S. Navy. When a recruiter called in September 1989 to talk with her now-deceased brother Darwell, she said she joked with the individual and said ...

Eagan, Minn. — The top quarterbacks in last year's NFL draft accounted for six of the top 12 picks, and they had a wide range of results in their rookie year, from award-winning to not applicable.

I think it would be good if The Day had a poll on new comics, as reader Russell Rice says on the opinion page. I agree, get some good old classic strips like Calvin and Hobbs, B.C., Andy Capp.