Connecticut
Legalized sports gambling's impact in Connecticut
A new study indicates the ease of access to sports gambling is harming the financial health of some consumers, including here in Connecticut.
Legalized sports gambling was introduced after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2018, and debuted here three years ago.
The data shows participants were more likely to file for bankruptcy, and had higher amounts of outstanding debt – something researchers consider “statistically significant.”
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The search continues for a rare collection of Abraham Lincoln artifacts that went missing after a visit to Connecticut College in New London, including a letter written days after the president’s assassination.
Sameer Somal, a Lincoln enthusiast, said the artifacts disappeared Tuesday after he accidentally left the folder containing them on top of his car and drove away following interviews with fellow Lincoln scholars at Connecticut College.
“The plan was to interview them, and I was going to show them some of these artifacts,” Somal said.
Somal said he has spent years assembling the collection, which included portraits of Lincoln, original Civil War-era newspapers, and an original invitation to Lincoln’s 1864 inaugural ball.
Among the items was a document Somal described as especially significant.
“There was a letter, which is particularly precious, written on April 17th, 1865, from General William Tecumseh Sherman about the assassination of Mr. Lincoln,” Somal said.
After realizing the folder was missing, Somal contacted campus security. He said he was initially told the folder had been recovered, but later learned security had mistaken it for a book that had fallen from his car.
“I proceeded to look in the dark in my state of disappointment and trauma,” Somal said.
The next day, Somal made the five-hour trip back to New London and checked with the police. He believes the folder likely fell on or near the Connecticut College campus, but it has not been turned in.
Somal said the loss goes beyond the monetary value of the artifacts, as the collection was intended to serve as a centerpiece for a future museum dedicated to Lincoln in Illinois.
Now he is asking whoever found the folder to return it.
“I will do anything to get these items back and anything to help someone else in life if I can just get them back,” Somal said.
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