Richard Gordon

Whalers owner Richard Gordon brought the media to his Trumbull Street office Tuesday to confirm he had fired Ed Johnston as vice president and general manager -- three years to the day he was hired. But the more Gordon spoke at the 75-minute press...

Peter Karmanos and Thomas Thewes, principals of Michigan-based Compuware Corp., Wednesday night were unanimously approved by the Connecticut Development Authority board of directors as the new owners of the Whalers. The decision was not without some...

The Whalers Monday night completed the biggest trade in their history when they sent Ron Francis, Ulf Samuelsson and Grant Jennings to the Pittsburgh Penguins for John Cullen, Zarley Zalapski and Jeff Parker. General manager Ed Johnston, who had served...

November 1971 -- The World Hockey Association awards franchise to sports enthusiasts and businessmen Howard Baldwin, John Colburn, Godfrey Wood and William Barnes. January 1972 -- Jack Kelley, a successful coach at Boston University, joins the New...

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a 19-year-old man outside his home in the Jefferson Park area. Dennis Rodgers was sitting on a car around 11 p.m. Wednesday in the 3600 block of South Normandie Avenue when three...

PARIS -- British actress Lucy Gordon, who appeared in " Spider-Man 3," was found dead in her Paris apartment, French police said Thursday. She was 28. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of her death, though it appeared to be a suicide,...

LOS ANGELES -- "Good news, bad news" probably doesn't begin to describe the day Hollywood screenwriter Eric Roth had last week. Roth was nominated Thursday for a Golden Globe award as screenwriter of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." And that same...

Since the dawn of the Space Age more than a quarter century ago, at least 13 Americans and Russians have died in spaceship cabins from which there was no escape. Tuesday's tragedy was by far the worst. Still, however, the toll is generally considered...

Friday May 17, 1996      In watching Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton's superb three-hour documentary "The Gate of Heavenly Peace," you have to wonder whether Mao Tse-tung would have created Beijing's vast Tiananmen Square if he could have foretold the...

America's final Gemini space walker has plunged with scarce notice into a Baltimore swimming pool to see if being an underwater dog paddler is anything like being a human satellite. Apparently, it is. And so astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., who spent two...