Like Toys R Us, but different. Nearly a year after going out of business, the toy conglomerate is trying for a comeback. This time, it's called Tru Kids and is headquartered out of Parsippany, New Jersey just 20 minutes from its former Wayne, New Jersey location, CNBC reports.The company -- which was launched Jan. 20 -- is operated by former Toys R Us executives hoping to bring ...

General Mills has issued a recall of five-pound Gold Medal bags of flour after salmonella was found in samples of the product.Bags with a “better if used by date of April 20, 2020” were part of the recall, which the FDA said was issued out of an abundance of care. There have been no reports of anyone becoming sick.“Food safety is our top priority, and though we have not had any ...

United Airlines passengers on a flight from Newark spent nearly 14 hours stuck on a freezing tarmac in Canada.The Hong Kong-bound flight made an emergency landing at Newfoundland's Goose Bay Airport at 9:31 p.m., six hours after taking off from New Jersey Saturday, several media outlets reported.Just as the plane was preparing to depart, a door of the Boeing 777-200 got stuck ...

Did you see Sunday's Super Wolf Blood Moon? The total lunar eclipse was one of its kind -- and the last until 2021.The moon at its closest point to Earth for the month is sometimes called a "supermoon." When that happens in January, it's called a "Wolf Moon."Send your photos to Daily Voice by emailing clevine@dailyvoice.com

A dozen priests who once worked at Fairfield University and/or Fairfield College Preparatory School are on a new list of 50 Jesuits accused of sex abuse.Priests across Connecticut, New York and several other states are on the report, released Tuesday by the USA Northeast Province Jesuits. Priests on the list have been accused as early as 1950. "Many accusations were made ...

Several people in New York reported seeing a fireball that tore across the area WednesdayThe American Meteor Society received more than 190 reports from Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina between 6:35 a.m. and 6:45 a.m.The fireball was traveling from northeast to southwest and ended its flight somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Norfolk, V.A., ...

The median household income in Connecticut is $73,781 -- so how does Fairfield County factor in?According to data from the U.S. Census covering 2013 through 2017 released last month, several area communities have some of the highest earners in the state. The median income in Fairfield County was $89,773 -- the highest-earning county in the state.Middlesex followed at No. 2, then ...

Is it the weather? I-95 or The Merritt? Maybe it's the public transportation -- or lack thereof?More Connecticut residents moved out than in last year, according to a recent study by United Van Lines.The  St. Louis-based moving company found that Connecticut had the third-highest rate of residents moving to other states -- with 62 percent of moves being outbound.New ...

An undetermined amount of ShopRite brand raw, skinless, boneless chicken products has been recalled by Amboy Group LLC due to misbranding of products that may contain allergens.The four flavors of misbranded products may contain milk, egg and soy and are undeclared on the finished product labels, according to a recall notice posted Dec. 7 by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service ...

An area man who says a police officer mistook his McDonald's hash brown for a cell phone before charging him with distracted driving is going to trial "for justice" in Fairfield County, he said.Jason Stiber of Westport had just bought a hash brown at the McDonald's on the Norwalk border April 11, just before being pulled over by Westport Police Cpl. Wong Won near Whole Foods around ...