Fairfield

Fairfield

• Bobby Valentine to lead Sacred Heart athletics

  Former Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has been hired as the athletics director at Sacred Heart University. The university in Fairfield, Conn. 

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  Sandy in back of Easterners' minds as snow falls

  For many in the Northeast, the warnings were eerily familiar: Stock up on food and water. Stay off the roads. Be prepared to lose power. The snowstorm ... 

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  Conn. couple named 'longest married' in US

  John and Ann Betar weren't supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped ... 

• GE to buy aviation unit of Italy's Avio for $4.3B

  Industrial conglomerate General Electric plans to buy the aviation business of Italian manufacturer Avio for $4.3 billion to grow its jet propulsion ... 

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  Sandy brings economic booms, busts to Northeast

  On a storm-battered stretch of Connecticut's shoreline, landscaping crews use heavy equipment to repair damage from Superstorm Sandy, racking up ...