WASHINGTON (AP) – A once-a-month injection to treat alcoholism won federal approval Thursday, expanding availability of a drug previously sold only in daily pill form.The Food and Drug Administration approved Vivitrol, spokeswoman Laura Alvey said. Cambridge, Mass.-based Alkermes Inc. will make the injectable form of the drug, also known as naltrexone. Cephalon Inc., of Frazer, […]

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) – Attorneys for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, convicted of a 1975 murder of a Greenwich teenager, will identify two men they say have been implicated in the killing to prosecutors but not the public, a prosecutor said Thursday.Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, is seeking a new trial based on a claim […]

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) – Attorneys for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, convicted of a 1975 murder of a Greenwich teenager, will identify two men they say have been implicated in the killing to prosecutors but not the public, a prosecutor said Thursday.Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, is seeking a new trial based on a claim […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – White House chief of staff Andy Card’s last day working with President Bush started at 5:50 a.m. – a little late for the West Wing boss.Card is known for being one of the first members of the president’s staff to arrive to work, but on Thursday, about 150 staffers beat him in.As […]

By Denise Lavoie,Associated Press Writer BOSTON – Five-year-old Kai Leigh Harriott sat in the front of the courtroom in her wheelchair and looked directly at the man who had just pleaded guilty Thursday to firing the shot that paralyzed her.At first, she broke down, crying harder than she ever had since the night nearly three […]

LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) – In a wide part of northern New Hampshire, cell phones are just ornaments. But that is about to change.The Lancaster Planning Board this week approved a request to erect a cell phone tower on Mount Orne, opening a wide area of northernmost Coos County to service.Peter Riviere, director of the Coos […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – A teacher pleaded guilty Wednesday to faking cancer and collecting more than $35,000 in donations from friends and colleagues, money that prosecutors said she spent on an island vacation, big-screen television and other items.Prosecutors said Heather Faria, 27, formerly a special education teacher at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School, began telling […]

SOMERS, Conn. (AP) – Condolences and flowers came in from all over the world. Gene Pitney’s voice and music had international appeal.It always had. Yet his heart had never left his hometown and now the “Rockville Rocket” was home to stay.Pitney, 66, who died last week while touring in Wales, was remembered during funeral services […]

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – A teacher pleaded guilty Wednesday to faking cancer and collecting more than $35,000 in donations from friends and colleagues, money that prosecutors said she spent on an island vacation, big-screen television and other items.Prosecutors said Heather Faria, 27, formerly a special education teacher at Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School, began telling […]

SOMERS, Conn. (AP) – Condolences and flowers came in from all over the world. Gene Pitney’s voice and music had international appeal.It always had. Yet his heart had never left his hometown and now the “Rockville Rocket” was home to stay.Pitney, 66, who died last week while touring in Wales, was remembered during funeral services […]