New Haven-based defense contractor Hupp Aerospace/Defense announced it had been awarded two multi-million dollar contracts a little over a week apart from the U.S. Department of Defense. The first contract, a $7.2 million, two-year agreement for Hupp to provide maintenance kits for the U.S. Army's AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, was announced the day before Thanksgiving.
The second contract, …
A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, parachuting into a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.
Yves Rossy leapt from a plane at around 8,200 feet (2,500 meters), fired up his jets and made the 22-mile (35-kilometer ) trip from Calais in France. Rossy passed over a thin strip of land in front of South Foreland lighthouse, looped over onlookers and opened his parachute, his wings still strapped to his back.
"It was perfect. Blue sky, sunny, no clouds, perfect conditions," he said. "We prepared everything and it was great."
The trip across the …
Families in Winscombe, Sandford, Churchill and other NorthSomerset villages will get a chance to take part in a national roadsafety initiative at the end of this month.
More than eight out of 10 child safety seats across the UK areincorrectly fitted but Road Safety GB's Good Egg campaign is hopingto change that.
It aims to make sure that babies and children are properlyrestrained while travelling in the car, by showing parents andcarers the correct way to fit in-car child safety seats.
In 2008 more than 5,000 children under 12 were injured as carpassengers on British roads. Using a correctly fitted child safetyseat is critical because the …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Craig Leipold patiently worked to build an NHL franchise and turned the Nashville Predators into one of the league's best teams. If they win a Stanley Cup, it won't be with him.
Leipold confirmed Thursday he has signed a letter of intent to sell the franchise to Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie for $220 million after losing $70 million in 10 years of ownership.
"I'm tired of losing money," Leipold said. "I found someone willing to step up and invest in this team and make it happen."
The terms of the sale, which must be approved by the NHL's Board of Governors, call for the deal to be completed by June 30.
Leipold has owned the team …
Prospects for Michael Mukasey's confirmation as attorney general are dimming after he again refused to equate waterboarding with torture and more Democrats on a crucial committee announced they would vote against him.
First-year Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse announced from the Senate floor that he would oppose Mukasey's confirmation. The retired federal judge's refusal to say that waterboarding is "unconditionally wrong" would leave open the possibility that U.S. agencies could cross a moral and legal line and use it on detainees, Whitehouse said. Waterboarding is an interrogation technique that can make a subject feel as if he is drowning.
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No. 4 seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland reached her first final in 10 months with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Slovakia's Daniela Hantuchova at the Mercury Insurance Open on Saturday night.
Radwanska, ranked 10th in the world, used Hantuchova's double fault in the seventh game for the only break of the first set. She then used her counterpunching game to capture the second set, which included a 20-minute seventh game in which Hantuchova saved seven match points.
"I was feeling good here and everything is working," Radwanska said. "I've played some good matches against some good players. Now, just one more."
This is Radwanska's first trip …
A battle for riches and glory. Fiery debate. Tense negotiations.
That's up next in the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
Television service in Pennsylvania could be shaken up dramatically by legislation that's likely to be brought up for consideration in the next session.
Verizon Communications Inc., traditionally a telephone company, is becoming a cable provider. As it enters the cable-TV market, the company is trying to dismantle a decades-old system that forces providers to negotiate separate access deals with each of the Commonwealth's 2,567 municipalities.
Legislation to do just that was introduced over the summer but recently withdrawn. There is little …
