Recent obituaries from Naugatuck. Joyce A. Lafo, 91, widow of Francis E. Lafo, Sr., died Feb. 9, 2025, at Waterbury Hospital; ...

She attended a one-room school before graduating from Centreville High School. She dreamed of becoming a nurse and traveled ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers from the Feb. 4 episode of Hulu’s “Paradise,” titled “Agent Billy Pace.” “Paradise” twisted the knife with its latest shocker, revealing ...

The medical landscape in the early 19th century was – unsurprisingly – vastly different to today. During the lifetime of Jane Austen, who died in 1817 at the age of 41, diseases were rife and often ...

Alexander Wyman and Sarah Wyman of Solon are facing charges in connection with the incident that took Somerset County Sheriff’s Office investigators days to unravel. At some point, there was ...

Jane Austen (Patsy Ferran) is dead. Decades later, her spinster sister Cassandra (Keeley Hawes) discovers that Jane’s letters – in all their acerbic, revelatory glory – are about to fall ...

EUREKA, Mo. — The parents of a teenage girl are suing the Wyman Center, claiming the Eureka nonprofit youth organization’s staff members did not do enough to prevent their daughter’s ...

New four-part drama Miss Austen is set to not only bring the literary mystery surrounding the burning of Jane Austen's letters to life, but it will also be an adaptation that will explore a side ...

Miss Austen, the BBC’s newest series, has all the hallmarks of any Jane Austen book. There are suitors. There are spinsters. There are agonised (and possibly doomed) romances and there are ...

The parents of a teenage girl are suing the Wyman Center, claiming the Eureka nonprofit youth organization’s staff members did not do enough to prevent their daughter’s “violent rape” at the hands of ...

Towards the end of her life, in an act of near incomprehensible sabotage, the elder Austen sister burnt swathes of correspondence written by Jane, who had died almost 30 years earlier in 1817.