Connecticut

Whether your TV habits tend toward Design on a Dime or Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, the shops, galleries, and flea market of Woodbury, Connecticut, cover the bases. The town is famous for its Colonial architecture, and its 30-plus antiques dealers make it a popular stop for tourists. But shop with the locals instead. After perusing Provencal tables and Quebecois cupboards selling for full price, go hunting for a deal at Woodbury Antiques & Flea Market (203-263-2841, woodburyfleamarket.com)

NEW YORK (77) Powell 2-8 1-2 6, Pierson 7-9 2-2 16, Braxton 5-10 0-0 11, Pondexter 5-13 8-11 18, Mitchell 3-10 0-0 8, Miller 1-5 0-0 2, Vaughn 3-7 0-0 6, Walker 1-2 3-4 5, Carson 2-4 1-1 5, A.Montgomery 0-0 0-0 0, Cain 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 29-68 15-22 77. CONNECTICUT (92) Greene 2-3 3-3 7, Jones 8-16 3-4 20, Charles 11-15 3-4 25, McCray 2-8 4-4 9, Lawson 2-6 3-3 9, Hightower 0-5 0-0 0, R.Montgomery 4-12 7-7 15, Mims 2-3 2-2 6, Griffin 0-1 1-2 1, Shegog 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-69 26-29 92. New York 24 16 19 18—77 Connecticut 15 29 23 25—92 3-Point Goals—New York 4-17 (Mitchell 2-6, Braxton 1-2, Powell 1-5, Carson 0-1,...

Walmart Stores Inc., which has already announced plans to open its first grocery store in the northeast in Somerville, plans to open a second New England grocery market in West Hartford, Conn., by the end of 2012, according to Edens, the South Carolina developer that owns the Connecticut shopping center. But it is unclear which store will open first. Walmart originally said the Somerville store would open by July. But the company's proposal faces opposition from a network of community groups, called Somerville Coalition for a Responsible Walmart, which is critical of the retailer's labor...

The Connecticut Sun signed a deal to have games broadcast on Connecticut Public Television's sports cable channel. Under the agreement, CPTV Sports will air up to 23 games this season. Financial terms were not disclosed. The network says its broadcast team will include Bob Heussler doing play-by-play, and color commentary from former University of Connecticut stars Rebecca Lobo, Jen Rizzotti and Kara Wolters on a rotating basis. The agreement comes just days after UConn announced that it had ended an 18-year relationship with CPTV and signed a deal to have its women's games...

WAUREGAN, Conn. - "Through these doors walk some of the best trampolinists in the world," reads the sign over the entrance to The Trampoline Place. But as the shouts of children and the sight of small, bouncing bodies attest, being a world-class trampolinist is not a requirement for entering this all-trampoline gym. This Friday evening, a private birthday party is winding down before the gym opens to the public. Dance music booms. On 10 Olympic-size trampolines, about a dozen children, average age 7, jump with focused concentration.

State police in Connecticut are investigating two fatal accidents that happened just after the start of the holiday weekend. Police said the first crash occurred on Interstate 95 near exit 88 in Groton just before 1:30 a.m. on Saturday. They said a car driven by 27-year-old David Reidy of Newport, R.I., hit a guard rail and landed on its roof in a crash that threw 26-year-old Laura Kavazanjian of Setauket, N.Y., from the vehicle. Police said Kavazanjian was killed, while Reidy was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Florida State's Bernard James thought the Seminoles were headed for a victory when Connecticut freshman Ryan Boatwright went to the line needing to make three free throws to tie the game with seven seconds left. "I was surprised he even got fouled," James said. "The refs don't usually make a call like that with the game on the line. I figured he'd miss at least one. " So much for that theory. Boatwright made all three of those foul shots to send the game to overtime and Shabazz Napier had 26 points, leading No. 4 Connecticut to a 78-76 victory over No. 22 Florida State 78-76...

The U.N. human rights office has welcomed Connecticut's move to end the death penalty for future crimes and urged other U.S. states to do the same. A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the United States was ranked among the top five countries carrying out executions in 2011. Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva on Friday that the other four countries are China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Colville says the U.N. human rights office hopes California will take the same step in November as Connecticut and 16 other states...

The Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a court ruling that Connecticut school officials acted reasonably in disciplining a student for an Internet posting she wrote outside of school. The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from Avery Doninger, who was a high school junior in Burlington, Conn., when she took to the Internet to criticize administrators for canceling a popular school activity. Doninger sued school officials after they punished her by preventing her from serving as class secretary as a senior.

Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame are back in the Final Four for the second straight season, and the game plan for the national semifinals will look familiar. Notre Dame (34-3) and Connecticut (33-4) meet for the fourth time this season on Sunday in Denver. The winner will face Baylor or Stanford in Tuesday's championship. "We know them pretty well and they know us pretty well," Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said. "I don't think there's any mystery in the game. I think it's a matter of who's going to play well, who's going to make shots and who's going to be able to defend better.

The Connecticut Sun has trimmed its pre-season roster to 13 players by cutting two players, including former North Carolina star Jessica Breland. The 6-foot-3 Breland was picked up by the Sun last July after being waived by New York, but saw action in just one game. Breland was the first pick in the second round of the 2011 draft, despite having to sit out a year in college while undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. She returned for her senior season, before being drafted last year by Minnesota and then dealt to New York.

HARTFORD - State lawmakers gave final legislative approval Monday to a bill that beefs up a 1999 law requiring Connecticut police departments to report traffic stop information, creating the possibility of financial penalties if a department fails to comply. The legislation comes after four East Haven police officers were arrested in January, accused of waging a campaign against Latino residents that included beatings, false arrests, and harassment of those who threatened to report misconduct.

The state Senate gave final legislative approval Tuesday night to a revised $20.5 billion budget that increases spending by $143 million in the new fiscal year that begins July 1. The bill also covers an approximate $200 million deficit in the current fiscal year. Senators voted 22-13 in favor of the measure, hours after the same bill passed in the House of Representatives. It now goes to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's desk to be signed into law. The bill passed the Senate along mostly party lines.

More than a century after waves of Europe's working class left for jobs in New England mills and other prospects in the U.S., their homes, communities and traditions are providing fresh opportunities to promote tourism in Connecticut. Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, French Canadian, Polish and other immigrants labored in factories that made silk in Manchester, thread in Willimantic, hats in Danbury and numerous other Connecticut mill towns in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Economic development officials now want to tell the immigrants'...

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut teenager says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map on display showing the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century. But 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady of West Hartford knew he was right. The seventh-grader had just studied the empire in school before going to the museum last summer. The Hartford Courant reports (http://cour.at/IGLyXi) museum officials acknowledged earlier this year that Benjamin was indeed...

A bill that would establish a program for discarding mattresses in Connecticut is one step closer to becoming law. The measure passed the state Senate 32-to-4 on Wednesday. It now awaits action in the state's House of Representatives. Under the bill, which was modified by the chamber, mattress manufacturers would be required to form a council to establish a program for mattress disposal and recycling. It would need to be approved by the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

The University of Connecticut men's and women's basketball teams both have agreed to play in next season's Jimmy V Basketball Classic. The UConn men will face North Carolina State on Dec. 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York. That will be the second game of a doubleheader that will also include a game between Texas and Georgetown. The UConn women had previously committed to playing Maryland on Dec. 3 at either Gampel Pavilion or the XL Center in Hartford at 7 p.m. This will be the first appearance for the UConn men and the fifth for the UConn women in the tournament, which...

NEW YORK — Dion Waiters had 18 points and James Southerland scored all 10 of his points in the final 8 minutes to lead No. 2 Syracuse to a 58-55 victory over Connecticut on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament, snapping the Huskies' 13-game postseason winning streak. The top-seeded Orange (31-1) won their 11th straight game overall and advanced to face the winner of the Georgetown-Cincinnati game in the semifinals on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

The University of Connecticut men's and women's basketball teams both have agreed to play in next season's Jimmy V Basketball Classic. The UConn men will face North Carolina State on Dec. 4 at Madison Square Garden in New York. That will be the second game of a doubleheader that will also include a game between Texas and Georgetown. The UConn women had previously committed to playing Maryland on Dec. 3 at either Gampel Pavilion or the XL Center in Hartford at 7 p.m. This will be the first appearance for the UConn men and the fifth for the UConn women in the tournament, which...

North Carolina State will play in the Jimmy V Classic that honors the Wolfpack's former coach. N.C. State will face Connecticut and Texas will take on Georgetown in the doubleheader at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 4. It is the second time the Wolfpack will play in the event, which benefits the V Foundation for Cancer Research founded by Jim Valvano and ESPN. Valvano led N.C. State to the 1983 national championship and died from cancer in 1993. The Wolfpack also played in the event in 2002, losing to Gonzaga 69-60.