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The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

It certainly caught our attention recently when Rep. Joe Courtney, the Democrat representing our 2nd District, was the lone congressman from Connecticut to vote against the $10 billion fiscal 2010 Coast Guard Authorization Act. ...

Earlier this week NYMag reported on Ilya the manatee, "who traveled to Cape Cod this summer via New York Harbor," and ended up in New Jersey this past Friday. Ilya hasn't been spotted since, with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center unable to track her down. ...

Twice a year, the coast guard conducts tactical training missions that certify crewmen to join the tactical team.

NBC Connecticut's Diana Perez going on a tactical training mission wigth the Coast Guard.

New London - The U.S. Coast Guard Academy recently partnered with Amistad America, a nonprofit association that operates the schooner Amistad, to bring the ship to New London.

Cape residents from Bourne to Truro were captivated Saturday night after spotting a mysterious, cone-shaped light darting across the evening sky.

A routine ferry trip between Ocean Beach and Fair Harbor for 130 passengers aboard the Fire Island Belle was interrupted Sunday morning when a fire erupted in the engine room, the U.S. Coast Guard s

New London - The U.S. Coast Guard International Ice Patrol recently hosted the seventh annual meeting of the North American Ice Service in New London, with co-director, information technology, operations ...

New London - U.S. New Media Group ranked the U.S. Coast Guard Academy second in the category of best baccalaureate colleges in the North and 15th best undergraduate engineering program in the country in the 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges.

Jodi Barry, 18, an incoming freshman, moves into her dorm room in Hurley Hall on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs. Helping Barry is her mother Lynn. Freshmen moved in of Friday. The rest of the student body arrives Saturday. (MICHAEL MCANDREWS / HARTFORD COURANT / August 28, 2009)

From afar, the iconic house at the mouth of the Thames River appears to be a stately mansion, with its mansard roof and granite detailing.

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