The Advocate
- Misunderstanding stirs social media firestorm over Stamford police response
Wednesday - 02/07/2018 - 09:16 PMSTAMFORD — An apparent misunderstanding by family and friends has fueled a social media firestorm over police response to an 18-year-old Stamford man who prompted the lockdown of an elementary school this week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Free Stamford flu vaccination clinic is Saturday
Wednesday - 02/07/2018 - 02:15 PMThe city is hosting its second free flu vaccination clinic for children and adults on Saturday.
The clinic is 9 to 11 a.m. at the Stamford Government Center, 888 Washington Blvd.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- General Assembly Democrats promise highway toll vote, lay out agenda
Tuesday - 02/06/2018 - 04:15 PMHARTFORD — The General Assembly’s Democratic leaders on Tuesday vowed to bring electronic highway tolls to a vote while laying out a progressive agenda that includes increasing the minimum wage, mandating paid family leave and creating tuition free community colleges.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Malloy budget eliminates Metro-North fare hikes; calls for electronic tolls
Monday - 02/05/2018 - 03:07 PMHARTFORD - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday proposed changes to the state budget that restores $4.3 billion in planned transportation projects, cancels proposed Metro-North fare hikes and service cuts and places electronic tolls on state highways.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vehicle hits Stamford apartment building
Saturday - 02/03/2018 - 08:51 PMSTAMFORD — According to Stamford Police, a vehicle crashed into an apartment building at 136 Ursula Place early Saturday morning around 3 a.m.
The vehicle hit the side of the building and caused a power outage in the complex.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two promoted to deputy fire chief in Stamford
Friday - 02/02/2018 - 03:27 PMSTAMFORD — Matthew Palmer and Thomas Gloersen were officially sworn in this week as deputy chiefs of the city’s fire department.
They were each promoted from captain last month and have been serving in their new roles for about three weeks.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Sketch of possible burglary suspect released by Stamford police
Thursday - 02/01/2018 - 02:36 PMSTAMFORD — Police are asking the public to help identify a man who was seen casing two residences on Grove Street and downtown Stamford.
“It was like the guy was almost like a peeping Tom, looking into people’s windows possibly trying to figure out how to get into people’s homes,” said property crimes Sgt.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Tinted glass stop leads to drug bust in Stamford
Thursday - 02/01/2018 - 09:24 AMSTAMFORD-A traffic stop for tinted windows led police to seize more than a pound of marijuana along with nearly an ounce of cocaine on Tuesday night, police said.
Capt. Richard Conklin said officers on the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad were patrolling Merrell Avenue at about 8:30 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Library seeks donations to replace old carpet
Wednesday - 01/31/2018 - 12:01 PMSTAMFORD — The Ferguson Library’s Harry Bennett Branch is raising money to replace worn carpet throughout the building.
The library is asking for donations to replace carpet that in some areas is held together by duct tape at the Vine Road branch.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- NWS: Beware black ice early Saturday morning
Saturday - 01/27/2018 - 08:48 AMIt may not look like it but early morning commutes on Saturday could prove to be sneakily icy, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service.
The NWS issued a special weather advisory to warn residents of potentially icy conditions in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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- Malloy offers sermon on fairness; pushes agenda
Wednesday - 02/07/2018 - 02:15 PMHARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday offered a sermon on fairness, using his final State of the State address to push back at President Donald Trump’s policies and boost his own agenda and legacy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police investigate serious infant injury in Stamford
Wednesday - 02/07/2018 - 10:09 AMSTAMFORD-Police investigators are looking into how a near three-month old baby was seriously injured on Stamford’s East Side Tuesday.
Medics were called to the baby’s home on William Street at about 3 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Man causes disturbance outside Rogers School in Stamford, causing lockdown
Monday - 02/05/2018 - 05:30 PMSTAMFORD — An allegedly emotionally disturbed man caused some alarm at Rogers International School on Monday morning, forcing administrators into a lockdown shortly after classes began.
Stamford police say someone noticed the man acting irrationally outside the school at about 9:30 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Woman, 69, in critical after pedestrian crash
Monday - 02/05/2018 - 01:29 PMSTAMFORD — Police have identified the elderly Stamford woman struck by a car driven by a teenager Saturday afternoon as Benita Muralles, 69.
She continues to fight for her life while she remains in critical but stable condition in Stamford Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, according to Sgt.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Stamford teen gets five years for armed robbery
Friday - 02/02/2018 - 05:51 PMSTAMFORD-The second adolescent teen that involved the shooting of a New Britain teen during a drug ripoff in 2016 was sentenced to five years in jail at the Stamford courthouse Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police: Stamford men caught with 13 pounds of pot
Thursday - 02/01/2018 - 06:30 PMSTAMFORD — Police say two men out on bail after being caught a few months ago with nine pounds of marijuana were found this week with 13 more pounds of pot.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police release video of burglary suspect in Stamford
Thursday - 02/01/2018 - 09:24 AMSTAMFORD-Police have released a video of a burglar who struck a home on Aberdeen Street on January 26.
Property crimes Sgt. Sean Scanlan is hoping that the public can help his investigators identify the criminal and get him behind bars before he strikes another home.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two promoted in Stamford police department
Wednesday - 01/31/2018 - 05:43 PMSTAMFORD — A hard-working patrol lieutenant and the commander of the police department’s bomb squad have been promoted.
Lt. Diedrich Hohn, who has run the Youth Bureau and Bureau of Criminal investigations and also served in the Narcotics and Organized Crime Squad, has been promoted to captain and will command patrol units in the downtown area.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Beetle Bailey’ cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94
Saturday - 01/27/2018 - 04:03 PMSTAMFORD — “Beetle Bailey” creator Mort Walker, who chronicled the mishaps of the world’s laziest U.S. Army private since 1950 while maintaining an unrivaled run of work in the comics industry, died at his Stamford, Connecticut, home Saturday at 94.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Unattended bag at train station causing lengthy delays on Metro-North
Friday - 01/26/2018 - 07:00 PM
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- Stop light worker escapes serious injury in Stamford accident
Wednesday - 02/07/2018 - 04:51 PMSTAMFORD — An electrician working on a traffic signal was thrown from his bucket and left dangling above a busy Waterside street this week.
Sgt. Andrew Gallagher said the man escaped serious injury because he was wearing a harness attached to the bucket when a cement truck struck his vehicle while he was hoisted 20 feet above the ground Tuesday morning.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Convicted child sex offender faces new charges in Stamford
Tuesday - 02/06/2018 - 04:15 PMSTAMFORD — A city man convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in the mall parking garage more than 10 years ago has been arrested for violating his probation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Drugs, guns seized at Darien’s I-95 rest stop
Tuesday - 02/06/2018 - 03:10 PMAn ex-con fisherman from Maine who was stopped for a traffic infraction on I-95 was busted for allegedly being in possession of two semi-automatic pistols, crack cocaine and a small amount of heroin at the Darien rest stop early Sunday afternoon.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stamford pedestrian faces life-threatening injuries after crash
Sunday - 02/04/2018 - 06:45 AMSTAMFORD --- A Stamford woman in her 70s was seriously injured Saturday after she was hit crossing the street.
Police said a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro hit the woman as she crossed Grove Street at Main Street around 2:30 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Four years jail for Norwalk man who supplied lethal crack
Friday - 02/02/2018 - 07:03 PMSTAMFORD-A Norwalk man who supplied the crack cocaine that killed another Norwalk man last July was sentenced to four years in prison Friday.
Eric Frank, 29, of Freedman Place pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, second-degree assault, sale of narcotics and assault on a police officer at the Stamford courthouse.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Charges dismissed against former Stamford shelter manager
Thursday - 02/01/2018 - 06:30 PMSTAMFORD — A reckless endangerment charge that has dogged the city’s former animal shelter manager for three years was erased Thursday after Laurie Hollywood spent the day in a court diversionary program for first-time offenders.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stamford man charged with strangling, beating girlfriend
Thursday - 02/01/2018 - 02:36 PMSTAMFORD — A city man faces numerous charges after police say he violated a court order when he strangled and assaulted his girlfriend on New Year’s Day.
Brian Gonzalez, 20, of Willowbrook Avenue, has been charged with 68 counts of harassment and violating a protective order along with charges of strangulation, assault, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, threatening and unlawful restraint.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ex-Stamford animal shelter manager escapes prosecution over dog-biting incidents
Wednesday - 01/31/2018 - 05:43 PMSTAMFORD — The criminal prosecution of Laurie Hollywood has been dropped after the city’s former animal shelter manger was accepted into a diversionary program for first offenders that will expunge a single count of reckless endangerment against her.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stamford schools prepare for new strategic plan
Saturday - 01/27/2018 - 10:33 PMSTAMFORD — Changes are in motion for the city’s public schools.
While the Board of Education remains largely the same, and new president David Mannis is adamant about picking up where former president Geoff Alswanger left off, the central office is abuzz with shifts in leadership positions and an incoming strategic plan that will shape the district’s goals in the coming years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oxygen and candle touched off bedroom blaze in Stamford
Thursday - 01/25/2018 - 03:39 PMSTAMFORD-A fire that destroyed the bedroom of a historic house in North Stamford Wednesday morning was touched off by a candle that came into contact with oxygen being used at the time, fire officials say.
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