A prisoner firefighter at the Osborn Correctional Institution in Somers, CT , runs from an exploding wildfire he, along with other prisoners, were attempting to contain on the prison grounds.

A worker makes his way through the wreckage of the World Trade Towers after terrorists flew airliners into the towers on 9/11/2001.

A Marine reservist with Company C, based in Plainville, CT, heads home after returning from a tour in Iraq.

A Hartford, CT mother embraces a photograph of her son, an air force crewman, on the night the United States began it's air war on Iraq during the Persian Gulf War.

A New Britain, CT girl looks through the remains of her home for clothes and toys after her mother attempted to murder her father by dousing his bed with gasoline and igniting it while he slept. He escaped and rescued his wife and children.

University of Connecticut students ignite a car they overturned in a parking lot adjacent to the school during a riot that erupted when police shut down a party on campus during UConn's Spring Weekend festivities.

Bill McGowan, left, comforts his grandson, Tristan McGowen, as the 13-year-old, who was shot in the arm by snipers who killed four of his classmates Tuesday, looks over a bullet-riddled wall at his elementary school Wednesday.

NEW YORK, NY -- 09-11-02-- Angel Brabo, of Murfreesboro, TN, hitchhiked to New York's Times Square with his flag to mark the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States on the morning of September 11, 2002. Brabo held his flag in the wind while watching the names of those who perished in the attacks on the World Trade Towers scroll across the news tickers in the square.

Friends of Jesse Uneless react as his corpse is carried by after he drowned during a senior skip day held by Rockville High School students at Bolton Lake in Bolton, CT.

Friends of Jesse Uneless, a senior at Rockville High School, react after he drowned during a senior skip day held by Rockville High School students at Bolton Lake in Bolton, CT.

Friends of Jesse Uneless, a senior from Rockville High School, try to revive him after he was pulled out of Bolton Lake. Uneless drowned during the senior skip day from the high school.

Plainville, CT--Lisa Wilson, of West Hartford, CT, embraces her husband, Gary, as he stands in formation with the rest of Company C, which had just arrived at the Marine Reserve base in Plainville, CT on their return from a deployment in Iraq.

Protests in New London, CT demonstrate against the acquisition of the Fort Trumbull neighborhood's homes in an eminent domain action that critics contended was done for the benefit of the Pfizer corporation rather than city residents.