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STAMFORD-A city landlord was charged with criminal mischief early Friday when he allegedly struck the man he was trying to kick off his property with the man’s own bed.

Sgt. Robert Shawinsky said police were called to High Street at 5:45 a.m. Friday on the report of a tenant-landlord dispute.

Police got there and found that landlord Maurice Abel, 53, who lives at the High Street home, had approached his 49-year-old renter, who owed Abel three months back rent.

STAMFORD-A city man being taken into custody on drug charges would not go quietly and ended up reversing his car into the front of a police vehicle Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The takedown happened at about 5 p.m. on Valley Road near where a team of Narcotics and Organized Crime officers had set up waiting for Jermaine Scott, 21 to arrive. Capt. Richard Conklin said police had an arrest warrant in hand for Scott for allegedly selling medium amounts of crack cocaine to a undercover officer on three different occasions.

NEW MILFORD - Firefighters battled a house fire early Thursday morning on Cedar Hill Road.

According to reports, Route 7 was closed briefly as firefighters fought the blaze. Tanker trucks from throughout the area were called to assist. The home, according to initial reports, was a total loss.

More information was not immediately available.

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STAMFORD-no accidents were reported on the roads in Stamford just before 9 a.m.

Traffic is light on city streets and if the Jones Sausage sell out at a market in nearby Noroton Heights is any indication, people have signaled their intentions of sleeping in this morning.

All roads are passable as city plows were the rounds scraping off up to three inches of snow this morning.

About the only action in Stamford was a water main break at Pacific and Market Streets in the city’s South End at a about 4:30 a.m.

STAMFORD-A water main break on Long Ridge Road could close one of the city’s main north-south arteries Wednesday night.

The break was reported at about 4:40 p.m. at Cold Spring Road. A city sander was dispatched to the scene to throw sand down after the water freezes in order to keep cars moving in the area.

The leak is on or near the southbound lanes of Long Ridge Road. Police are discussing how many lanes should be closed while the Aquarion Water Company fixes the break.

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STAMFORD — A Norwalk man wanted for allegedly crashing a stolen car in Glenbrook last week was picked up at the home of his girlfriend while visiting his newborn child on Wednesday afternoon.

After several hours staking out an Adams Avenue home in the bitter cold, officers in the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad spotted Karon McCollum, 30, walking into the home and after a short struggle took him into custody.

Richard Conklin said state police also have a warrant charging McCollum with using a weapon in October 2017 to rob someone with another Norwalk man in the parking lot of a Denny

STAMFORD-City police on Wednesday identified the female pedestrian struck and killed by a van on Elm Street while walking to work Tuesday morning as Fairfield resident Lynette Wagner, 59.

Sgt. Andrew Gallagher declined to discuss specifics of the case that involve a 38-year-old Stamford man, who was driving the 2016 Dodge Ram van that struck Wagner as he was turning west on North State Street at 7:09 a.m. Tuesday.

STAMFORD-A pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint in front of a Glenbrook home early Wednesday morning, police say.

The 39-year-old Dominos delivery driver was walking up to the front door of a home on Cowan Avenue at 12:32 a.m. when he was approached by three suspects, Lt. Tom Barcello said. One pointed a gun at the driver while another man got into his pockets and took his cell phone.

The pizza the man was carrying in his hands was then taken and the three ran away. Barcello said he did not have a description of the three assailants.

The driver was unharmed.

RIDGEFIELD — Zoning officials have approved a regualation they hope will spur enough affordable housing to discourage the use of state statute 8-30g, which often allows developers to skirt local zoning rules.

The regulation, which faced its third hearing Tuesday, offers incentives to affordable housing developers if they comply with local zoning rules instead of invoking 8-30g, which only lets the town deny applications because of health or safety.

It was crafted over the last four years to prepare for October, when Ridgefield’s four-year moratorium against 8-30g applications is set to

STAMFORD — One man has been taken into custody following a stabbing near downtown Stamford early Tuesday afternoon.

Radio reports from the scene said that a man had been stabbed in the eye on West Washington Avenue at about 12:45 p.m.

Capt. Richard Conklin said that a male suspect is in custody and witnesses are being taken to Stamford Hospital to help with identifying the assailant.

The location, just north of North Street, was the scene of a vandalism call during the early morning. Sgt.