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Print This E-mail Link Send Letter Send Correction Groton (AP) - Connecticut's Episcopal Diocese has filed a lawsuit against the leadership of the Bishop Seabury Church, demanding it turn over control of the church property after voting to leave the national church in a dispute over theology and the appointment of a gay bishop. The Rev. Ronald Gauss was suspended from Bishop Seabury on May 3, when the diocese appointed another priest, the Rev. David Cannon, to take over. Rev. Gauss and 12 former and current church leaders were served this week with the lawsuit, which was filed in Superior...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush hosted Opening Day of the White House Tee Ball season. General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was today's Tee Ball Commissioner. Following is a transcript of the President's Remarks to open the season: THE PRESIDENT: Seth, thank you very much. Good job. Welcome to the South Lawn. Laura and I are thrilled you're here for opening day. It is an honor for me, and the Commissioner, General Pete Pace, to welcome you all here for what is going to be an exciting ball game between the Yankees...

GROTON, Conn. -- The U.S. Navy has been asked to investigate allegations by a carpenters union that subcontractors working on new military housing in Connecticut and Rhode Island have hired undocumented workers and paid them substandard wages. The allegations sparked a series of demonstrations this week at the housing projects outside the submarine base in Groton and in Portsmouth, R.I. "Our guys found they were being paid less than they were supposed to be paid," said Bert Durand, spokesman for the New England Regional Council of Carpenters. "Any time employers are able to hire workers and exploit them, it has...

Scare at the Sub Base GROTON -- Police and fire units have set up a perimeter at the Groton Sub Base. Bomb-sniffing dogs have been also called out to the scene. Navy authorities are providing very limited information as to what happened Monday morning. Crystal Lake Avenue and the military highway road along the river have been blocked off by local police. This provides access to Gate #1 where the incident involving a truck took place. A spokesperson for the sub base tells Eyewitness news that at 6:30 a.m. Monday a Navy dog trained to sniff for explosives sensed something...

C. M. Glover for The New York TimesThe submarine base in Groton, Conn., is among 33 major bases the Pentagon is seeking to close. GROTON, Conn., Aug. 19 - In a report to Congress in March 2004, the Navy projected that it would need a fleet of 55 nuclear-powered attack submarines in 2024. A year later, the Navy lowered the projection to 45. By May, Admiral Vern Clark, who was then the chief of naval operations, said he wanted 41. Others now talk of a fleet in the 30's. It has been 16 years since the Berlin Wall fell,...

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman looked crestfallen, and he didn't want to talk about blue states. “I don't want to think that there was any politics in this,” Connecticut's junior senator said Friday, minutes after he and other state officials told a crowd of reporters at a press conference in New London what they already knew: Groton's Naval Submarine Base was on the list. While Democratic-leaning Connecticut would take a huge hit if the Groton base is closed by the Pentagon, as was recommended Friday morning, Lieberman and the rest of the congressional delegation said they did not think it was...

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(Groton-WTNH, Mar. 24, 2005 7:42 AM ) _ Groton police responded to a medical emergency call around 5:00 a.m. this morning for a gunshot wound at the Electric Boat facility in Groton. Police say that a 22-year-old sailor on duty aboard a submarine at Electric Boat has died from an apparent gunshot wound. Due to federal jurisdiction, the investigation has been taken over by the local office of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service. The name of the victim nor the circumstances of the shooting have not been released.

Groton — The region's legislative delegation said Friday that they stand united in opposing any efforts to close the Naval Submarine Base in Groton and they will work this year toward property tax relief and greater recognition and funding of the region's tourism industry. During a morning legislative forum in Groton sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, the legislators said the region needs to be prepared in case the sprawling submarine base ends up on a federal base-closing list in May. State Sen. Cathy Cook, R-Mystic, told the audience, “You can rest assured that this delegation is...

(Waterford-WTNH, Nov. 30, 2003 Updated 9:55 PM) _ State police are investigating a deadly car fire that happened near a shopping mall Sunday. Authorities were called to an area behind the Target store at the Crystal Mall around 4:30 p.m. when someone reported what they thought was a brush fire. "They found a vehicle on fire," Deputy Chief Max Thiel said. "There is an individual in the car." Trooper One flew over the Crystal Mall in Waterford while State Police Major Crimes Squad set up a perimeter behind Target. Stunned shoppers came out of the stores and found crime scene...

(Groton-AP Nov. 21, 2003 8:20 AM)_ The Navy is investigating the discovery of a body in a burning car at the Submarine base in Groton. The Navy says there was a report of a burning vehicle in a barracks parking lot about one-thirty this morning. When emergency personnel put out the fire they discovered a body. The Navy says the victim has not yet been identified and the death and fire is under investigation.

GROTON, Conn. - A small airplane crashed into three homes Monday and set two on fire before landing in a river, killing both people on board, police and aviation officials said. The plane slammed into the homes in the Poquonock River Bridge section of Groton while approaching a nearby airport. Everyone in the homes escaped, Fire Marshall Michael Richards said. "People were running down street, and all I could see was blazing fire and smoke and people running up and down the street," said Pauleatha Glover, 55. "It was en explosion, you know, I thought somebody had blown up the...