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State Offering Tax Amnesty Program  HARTFORD (AP) — The Connecticut tax department is urging people who owe back state taxes to participate in an upcoming tax amnesty program. State officials hope the amnesty will raise about $40 millio...

New Book Demystifies Successful Business Book Writing By Nancy K. Crevier Local author Sophfronia Scott had been noodling the idea for a book about book writing for small businesses and entrepreneurs when “the recession showed up and made...

TÜVRheinland’s Proposed Merger Is Off The management boards of Newtown-based TÜVRheinland and TÜV SÜD have withdrawn their application for a merger from Germany’s regulatory authority Bundeskartellamt. ...

Lung Association Offers Seven Tips To Quit Smoking This New Year WASHINGTON, D.C. — Many people will make New Year’s resolutions to quit smoking this year. With the economy in turmoil, quitting smoking is not only good for yo...

Commentary— America’s Sixth Child By Marian Wright Edelman On the day he died, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, called his mother to give her his next Sunday’s sermon title: “Why America May Go to Hell.â&#x8...

Tick-Borne Disease and Deer To the Editor: Many people have here attacked my position without really knowing my position, so I am going to start out my explanation here, and continue at www.deerfacts.org/PositionPaper.html. A survey last year reveale...

Finding Common Ground To the Editor: A short walk through Fairfield Hills reveals a campus in distress. The Rosenthal administration ignored the call to preserve FFH for town needs and ignored the referendum that defeated the administrationâ€&#x...

Four Charges Police said they received a complaint about noise coming from a vehicle in the parking lot at 100 Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook Center about 1:20 am January 7, so they went to the area to investigate. Police said they located the v...

Harassment Charge Follows Message Posted On Internet After learning that police held a warrant for her arrest, a girl under age 16, who is a Newtown Middle School student, turned herself over to police on the morning of December 29 and was arrested ...