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CHESHIRE — Like many middle-class professionals, Erica R. Valeriano had gone to school for a job that now bores her.

So she's made a change that just may be paying off.

Valeriano, 35, a resident of Budding Ridge, had worked for several years as a manufacturing engineer at TI Automotive Group Inc. in Meriden.

But the work was getting old. The perfect job, she thought, would be...

Brohm completed 22-of-30 passes without an interception and ran for a touchdown for the Cardinals (7-2, 3-2 Big East), who have won three straight since losing to conference-leading West Virginia.

Joshua Tinch added a career-best 183 yards receiving and a touchdown for Louisville, which has won 11 straight at home. Kolby Smith tallied three touchdowns, two rushing and one receiving, as Lo...

National Report Highlights Oregon Program That Allows Patients Greater Control Of Their Health Care

PORTLAND, Oregon - A national report highlights Oregon's Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) program as an effective tool in honoring individual treatment preferences near the end of life. The special Hastings Center Report, "End-of-Life Care: Why Has It Been So Diffic...

With the rout of the Schwarzenegger initiatives, Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, and Bush's free-fall in national polls on his job performance, credibility and character, the Republican Party is in imminent peril of losing the country.

Indeed, since 9/11, the party has indulged in willful self-delusion that it has become America's Party. The Bush triumph in 2004, talkin...

OLD NEWSPAPERS PROVIDE US WITH HISTORY'S FIRST DRAFT OF NATION'S VIOLENT STRUGGLES

The newsprint is tattered, yellow-brown and dry as parched earth. It has the musty, nostalgic smell of Grandma's attic. Where treasures hide. Where history sleeps.

Pahrump resident Bob Baker, a Vietnam veteran - and the son of a WWI veteran and brother of WWII veterans - loaned the Pahrump Valley T...

Kevin Pittsnogle and Mike Gansey are the biggest reasons the West Virginia basketball team has received the kind of media attention normally reserved for the football team.

The two seniors lead a deep and experienced squad as the 14th-ranked Mountaineers begin their season against Louisiana-Monroe on Saturday in the first round of the Guardians Classic.

After a stirring run to the r...

With the bowl season a little more than a month away, bowl representatives are scurrying around the country, trying to visit and entice teams to their bowl games.

The BCS picture is becoming clearer each week, but with many big games left, anything can happen.

As long as Southern California and Texas keep winning, they will meet in Pasadena for the national title. Miami, Penn State ...

Fairfax-area voters have left the 37th district in Democratic hands, giving the seat to David Bulova by a 6 percent margin.

"I feel wonderful," said Bulova after election returns came in Tuesday, Nov. 8. "It is a humbling experience, knowing voters put that kind of trust in you."

Two-term Del. Chap Petersen (D-37) left the House of Delegates to run for Lieutenant Governor. In a clos...

The West Virginia University wrestling team is turning to a young group of recruits to fill in the gaps left by the graduation of several successful members from last year's squad.

The team will have its hands full making up for the loss of NCAA champion Greg Jones, who graduated in May.

Although his collegiate wrestling days are over, Jones is staying with the team as a coach. He ...

WASHINGTON -- Lloyd Brown remembers Armistice Day in 1918 as few -- ever so few -- veterans can.

"For the servicemen there were lots of hugs and kisses," recalls Brown, of Charlotte Hall, Md., a teenage seaman aboard the battleship USS New Hampshire, in port stateside when the fighting stopped. "We were so happy that the war was over."

Now 104, Brown adds, "There's not too many of ...