PORTLAND (AP) — Court documents indicate a civilian shipyard worker accused of setting a fire that caused $400 million in damage to a nuclearpowered submarine has been offered a proposal to resolve his case without a trial.
Casey James Fury of Portsmouth, N.H., faces two counts of arson at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery.
Lawyers have been meeting to discuss a resolution of the trial without the need for a grand jury indictment.
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