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STAMFORD — The posters feature male and female bodies with messages like “my body is not a public space” written on necks, chests and legs.

For its most recent awareness campaign, Reveal to Heal, the Center for Sexual Assault Crisis Counseling displayed about 10 photographs at the Stamford Government Center featuring models overlaid with statements meant to provoke a dialogue about sexual assault.

Another poster says “drunk doesn’t mean ‘yes,’” and explains that alcohol is involved in 97 percent of college sexual assaults.

BETHEL - A Danbury man who police say threatened to shoot a local resident has been taken into custody.

Terral Belin, 23, of Oil Mill Road, was charged with second-degree threatening early Monday morning. Police said they received a complaint from an unidentified man who said Belin has threatened to shoot him. The claim was corroborated by witnesses. It was not clear if Belin had access to a firearm when he purportedly made the threat.

Belin was released on a $1,500 bond and is set to appear in court for his arraignment hearing on April 17.

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Stamford Police Capt. Richard Conklin, head of the department’s Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit said there were no preceding incidents in the area on Saturday night that appear connected to the shooting.

The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. when a gunman fired several shots of semi-automatic gunfire through a window at the shop facing Rose Park Avenue into the Two Brothers Barber Shop at 188 West Main Street, striking the 26-year-old man in the neck, Conklin said.

U PAY. initiative, the department will increase its patrols on certain days during April to look for those using cell phones while driving. The department will use funds from the state Department of Transportation’s Highway Safety Office to pay for the initiative.

Argentine composer Martin Palmeri’s tribute to his country entitled Misa a Buenos Aires (Misatango) will be featured in the show along with British composer John Rutter’s The Gift of Life.

The chorale will be accompanied by soloist Wendy Gerbier, the chorale’s orchestra and Joseph J. Jacovino on the piano and organ.

Mark Twain Library in Redding is seeking volunteers for its annual Frog Frolic on April 29, one of the library’s biggest events.

The event, in its 22nd year, is described as a children’s country fair and will feature touch a truck, a children’s book sale, inflatables, entertainment, a silent auction, cake walk and a toddler bubble garden.

Tickets cost 50 cents to play games, make crafts and bounce in the inflatables.

Two residents from Bethel and Redding will be among the 11 firefighters honored at this year’s Connecticut State Firefighters Association Hall of Fame Dinner.

Rees has served the department for 44 years and was previously Bethel’s emergency management director and public works director.

“So you pulled your gun out first?” Assistant State’s Attorney Jason Germain asked while Sanderson was on the witness stand. Sanderson claimed Kingston was behind an shooting earlier in 2014, when shots were fired at Sanderson as he was driving his mother’s Hummer in Bridgeport.

STAMFORD — A photo of a boy holding a shotgun with a threatening remark posted on social media was the latest in a series of alarming messages that have prompted school lockdowns in the area. The 14-year-old boy who took the photo was charged with threatening on Friday morning, but the school was locked down from 7:30 to 11 a.m. to “ensure there were no others involved in the potential situation,” according to Sharon Beadle, a spokeswoman for Stamford Public Schools.

DANBURY - A man accused of pressuring mentally troubled young men into paid sex with wealthy male clients told police he “didn’t know I was causing any harm.” “My crime was trying to help people,” Robert King insisted in an interview with police recounted in an affidavit filed Friday in Superior Court. Two men authorities have identified as King’s main clients, William Trefzger, a previously convicted sex offender from Westport, and Bruce J. Bemer of Glastonbury, were arrested earlier this week.