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Full football game: New London 25, Killingly 24

New Johnny 5 reunite after 28 years

Killingly's Nsaiah Harriet finds the gridiron via the soccer pitch

Tempers flare outside of the gubernatorial debate

Wired Zone Girls' Soccer: Old Lyme 3, East Lyme 2

WiredZone Boys Soccer: East Lyme 2, Old Lyme 1

Full game: Old Lyme 3, East Lyme 2 - girls soccer

Full game: East Lyme 2, Old Lyme 1 - boys soccer

Quick Hits: Old Lyme 3, East Lyme 2 in girls' soccer

Quick Hits: East Lyme 2, Old Lyme 1 in boys' soccer

Old Lyme's Mya Johnson thrives in a small town

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Car crashes into Waterford weigh station

A Chevrolet SUV drove through the weigh station off Interstate 95 south Friday morning, totaling the car and taking off the front end of the building.

Groton police, FBI treating white powder incident at mosque as hate crime

Local, state and federal authorities are investigating a white powdery substance found at the Islamic Center of New London on Friday morning.

Dump truck driver charged in double-fatal I-95 crash

Scene of a motor vehicle accident on I-95 northbound between exits 71 and 70 in Old Lyme Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

State police have arrested the dump truck driver blamed for an October 2017 crash that killed two 71-year-old women on Interstate 95 north.

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PHOTOS OF THE DAY

Coast Guard personnel from station New London play a game of touch football on the parade field at Fort Trumbull State Park, adjacent to the station, Friday, September 21, 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Coast Guard touch football

Sonar Technician 3rd Class Jose Contreras spends time with his son, Elias, 1, and his wife, Sara Contreras after he and his fellow crew members of the USS California (SSN 781) arrived at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 after deployment. The Virginia Class fast-attack submarine returned from the European Command Areas of Responsibility where it executed the Chief Naval Operations Maritime Strategy in support of national security interests and maritime security operations. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Homecoming for the USS California

Spectators watch as a crew from Ground Up Construction demolishes the former John's Mystic River Tavern on Cottrell Street in Mystic on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. The bar closed in December of last year and in January it was announced that the adjacent Whaler's Inn had purchased the building. The Whaler’s Inn also recently demolished the two adjacent residential structures at 1 and 3 Haley St. Plans have yet to be announced for the site. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Demolition of John's Mystic River Tavern begins

The Pre Commissioning Unit (PCU) South Dakota (SSN 790) is moved from its berth at General Dynamics Electric Boat to the U.S. Naval Submarine Base in Groton on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. The South Dakota is the 17th boat in the Virginia class of nuclear attack submarines. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Moving day

People wait in line and are interviewed by WFSB during a casting call for the reality television show Survivor in the mall concourse at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Casting for Survivor

Amanda LoMonte, of Shelton High School, goes down as she and her paddling partner Max Klein, charge into the water at the start of the third high school heat of the 8th annual UConn Avery Point/UConn Early College Experience cardboard boat races Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at Eastern Point Beach in Groton. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Off to the cardboard boat races

Connecticut College freshmen India Robert, left, and Nora Ozer take advantage of the nice weather to study outside in-between classes on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, at the school's Tempel Green. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Study break on the green

Construction workers set up scaffolding along the roof of Union Station in New London on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Union Station getting some repairs

Sam Johnson of East Haddam looks at the double rainbow while walking across the lawn at Harkness Memorial State Park to go fishing at sunset Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Chasing a rainbow

A pedestrian uses an umbrella and a poncho in an attempt to stay dry while walking past a mural on Eugene O'Neill Drive Tuesday, September 18, 2018, in New London. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Trying to stay dry

A fisher casts a line from his boat on the Mystic River Tuesday, September 18, 2018, along River Road in Mystic. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Casting a line

A pair of snowy egrets get their feathers ruffled as an osprey dives nearby for a meal in the wetlands near Pleasure Beach in Waterford Tuesday, September 18, 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Feeding time in the wetlands