Mike Thompson

It's the 11th Annual School Day at The K with FOX 4 and the Royals. This year's event will be held Thursday, May 7. Stadium gates open at 8:30 a.m. and the parking lot will open at 7. The School Day program is set to start at 10 a.m. Bus parking will be...

SCORES Wednesday's Results Boys Basketball CCC Inter •Farmington 68, Maloney 50 •Rockville 58, Simsbury 45 •Bloomfield 67, Southington 57 •Wethersfield 59, Newington 48 •Glastonbury 86, South Windsor 80 &#...

President-elect Barack Obama plans to name Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) to lead the Interior Department -- an appointment that could put the brakes on several controversial energy development projects across the West. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD:...

Doc Hurley is a classic and so is his basketball tournament, in its 34th year. This year's version, Wednesday through Saturday at Weaver High School, has 28 high school teams playing 14 games. The event started in 1975, a single college game between...

IT'S Washington's favorite parlor game during a presidential transition: trying to figure out who'll land a top spot in the new administration. President-elect Barack Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some...

The $700-billion financial bailout package has been swiftly signed into law, with a hefty side of pork. The legislation adds $110 billion in sweeteners, like a $2-million tax break to benefit manufacturers of wooden arrows for children - that were...

The dynamics of human attraction can be thoroughly mystifying. "What does she see in him?" we ask ourselves. "How do they stay together?" Yet unlikely as any relationship might seem, it is, on some level, instinctive. Perhaps inevitable. "In Heat" offers...

The greatest defensive third baseman in baseball history received confirmation of that title yesterday in the city where he made his professional debut. Brooks Robinson, who played with the Orioles for 23 seasons, was presented with the Rawlings All-Time...

Sheriff Ben Johnson Kevin N. Vaughn Property Appraiser Morgan Gilreath, Jr. Ruth M. Zimmerman Supervisor of Elections Ann McFall Susan Pynchon County Chairman Frank Bruno, Jr.* County Council District 2 Tyrone K. Brown Paul A. Carpenella Nancy Epps...

IN a small, windowless laboratory -- far removed from romantic vineyard vistas -- scientists at the U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) are attempting what most wine lovers would say is impossible. They are developing a test for terroir,...

Federal legislation mandating that airlines provide passengers trapped on grounded airplanes with food, water and working toilet facilities, as well as the right to deplane, is stalled in Congress, congressional aides and aviation experts said yesterday....

Thanks to our friends at The Big Lead for tipping us off to this story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the firing of controversial radio yakker Mark Madden. The wrinkle is that station GM Mike Thompson - formerly the program......