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This photo, provided by Shoreline Diving Services, shows the team preparing to dive the wreck of the 92-foot attack submarine Defender, Friday, April 14, 2023, that was scuttled by the Army Corp of Engineers in 1946. The Defender was found Sunday, April 23, 2023 by a dive team led by Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut. (Jennifer Sellitti/Shoreline Diving Services via AP)

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Wreckage of submarine found by divers in Long Island Sound
By PAT EATON-ROBB - Associated Press
Tue,04/18/23-5:08PM , 288 Reads
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut divers have discovered the wreckage of an experimental submarine that was built in 1907 and later scuttled in Long Island Sound.

The Defender, a 92-foot-long (28-meter-long) boat, was found Sunday by a team led by Richard Simon, a commercial diver from Coventry, Connecticut.
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Amarey Brookshire was devastated when she heard about the fire at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children — her camp. The February 2021 blaze destroyed many of the facilities at the retreat in the woods of eastern Connecticut, which was founded by actor Paul Newman in 1988 to give children suffering from devastating medical conditions a place to “raise a little hell.” (March 21)

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Paul Newman's camp for sick kids rises from the ashes
By PAT EATON-ROBB - Associated Press
Tue,03/21/23-7:49AM , 649 Reads
ASHFORD, Conn. (AP) — Amarey Brookshire was devastated when she heard about the fire at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children — her camp.
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In this Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 photo, Fred Hodges, left, and Da'ee McKnight at their workplace, Family ReEntry, a reentry support group aiming to break cycles of violence, crime and incarceration in Bridgeport, Conn. Hodges and McKnight are former Connecticut inmates who have been paying for cost of their incarceration. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
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Sat,08/27/22-6:30AM , 337 Reads
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished.

When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes.
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The Deer Lake Boy Scout Reservation in Killingworth, Conn., sits empty, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The camp is among many nationwide being sold by local councils as membership dwindles and the organization raises money to pay sexual abuse victims as part of a bankruptcy settlement. Conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

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Scouts sell off camps under strain from sex abuse suits
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Sat,06/04/22-6:41AM , 435 Reads
KILLINGWORTH, Conn. (AP) — As the financially struggling Boy Scouts sell off a number of campgrounds, conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space.
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