The major traffic artery linking New England with New York in Connecticut will be closed until at least Monday after a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95, Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday.

A Pennsylvania man who credits an alligator named Wally for helping relieve his depression says he is searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to Georgia.

A federal judge in Los Angeles on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel.

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage climbed this week to its highest level in more than five months.

The recalled beef, which was processed at a Cargill Meat Solutions facility in Pennsylvania, was produced on April 26 and April 27 and shipped to Walmart locations nationwide, the USDA announced.

Four children are among six people wounded in a drive-by shooting at a Texas apartment complex, according to Forth Worth police.