Greenwich

A man has pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges connected to the death of a young woman who was found dead, bound in a suitcase on a street in Greenwich last February.

The former chairman of a global law firm was sentenced Thursday to one month in prison for paying $75,000 to rig his daughter’s ACT exam. Gordon Caplan, 53, of Greenwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in May to a single count of fraud and conspiracy in a deal with prosecutors. He is the fourth parent to be sentenced in a sweeping college...

We’re joining forces with the team from Interiors Magazine. Among the many highlights in their lates issue is a chic Greenwich Village Apartment desgined by Alessandra Santopietro.

The first great white shark to ever ping in the Long Island Sound had an inauspicious introduction to fame Monday, drawing so much traffic to a research group’s website that it stopped working — and still was having trouble the next day.

A young woman who was found dead, bound in a suitcase on a street in Greenwich in February, died of “homicidal asphyxia,” according to the office of the chief medical examiner.

A worker for the Connecticut town where a woman was found dead in a suitcase is facing discipline for taking and sharing photos of the victim’s body.

Police have arrested a man in New York who they said admitted to having a role in the death of a woman who was found bound in a suitcase on an affluent road in Greenwich last week.

The woman who was found dead, bound in a suitcase along an affluent road in Greenwich Tuesday morning, lived in New Rochelle, New York and had been missing since January, according to police.

An employee of a childcare facility in Greenwich has been arrested after police investigated allegations of her force-feeding a 17-month-old baby.

Greenwich Police arrested a man who is accused of shooting a child with a BB gun on Sunday night.

Rhode Island’s representatives in the U.S. House say they’re asking voters for another term so they can continue to fight for the state.

A Virginia lawyer sued his former fiancee after he says she refused to give back the 4.06-carat engagement ring he gave her, valued at nearly $100,000.

Divorce can be simple or it can be messy. For some, it’s become a little more urgent. The $1.5-trillion tax overhaul includes the end of a 75-year-old deduction on alimony payments, to kick in at the close of this year. Recipients will also no longer have to claim such payments as income. The impact of the change depends entirely on...

Fossils from New Zealand have revealed a giant penguin that was as big as a grown man, roughly the size of the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The creature was slightly shorter in length and about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) heavier than the official stats for hockey star Sidney Crosby. It measured nearly 5 feet, 10 inches (1.77 meters) long...

For over a decade, Charles Crenshaw has been paying his ex-wife tens of thousands of dollars annually in alimony. The now-retired engineer is hoping to renegotiate the agreement for lower payments, but he’s waiting first to see what comes of a tax reform proposal in Congress. Under a House Republican tax plan that would eliminate the deduction for alimony payments,...

Former supermodel Stephanie Seymour had drunken driving and other charges erased from her record Tuesday after she completed a yearlong program that included treatment for alcohol abuse.

A family member of the chief justice who presided over the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision has apologized to the family of the slave who tried to sue for his freedom.

A Manhattan woman is suing Spanish fashion retailer Zara after she says she found a rat sewn into a dress she bought at one of their stores.

Supermodel Stephanie Seymour appeared in court in Stamford, Connecticut, on a drunken driving charge stemming from a crash last month and the charges will be dropped if she completes an alcohol education program.