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DANBURY — Three city residents face assault charges after police said they beat a man at a large outdoor party early Wednesday morning.

Police said the incident took place about 1 a.m. at Lake Waubeeka, a gated neighborhood on Post Road, after one of the suspects had an argument with the victim.

RIDGEFIELD — Police are investigating a series of burglaries targeting commercial buildings in town over the past two weeks.

Police said at least one burglar broke into several offices inside the building between May 14 and the morning of May 16, but it’s not clear whether anything was stolen.

Griffin was arrested in March 2014, five months after a new state law took effect that decriminalized placement of students in schools outside their home district.

Court records show that Miller forged juvenile court documents to gain custody of the Bridgeport teen and enroll her in the school.

The woman told the district the student was her niece, but the girl’s biological mother said the only tie between the two was that their daughters were dating, according to an arrest warrant.

The biological mother, who lives with her husband in Bridgeport, told authorities in October 2013 that she

A Danbury woman was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport after telling airport police she wanted to bring her guns onto the plane, authorities said.

Port Authority Police said she had two semiautomatic pistols, a Kimber .45 caliber and a Ruger .38 caliber, with loaded magazines.

Lt. Christian Carroccio said one of the employees then locked the door as he called 911 to keep Perez-Guzman from attacking pedestrians outside the store.

Perez-Guzman refused to drop the knife, but he walked to the corner of Keller Street and dropped to his knees with his back to the officers, Carroccio said.

Perez-Guzman was charged with third-degree assault, second-degree robbery, sixth-degree larceny, interfering with an officer, threatening, disorderly conduct and third-degree criminal mischief.

DANBURY — A massive police presence was seen on Franklin Street on Tuesday afternoon as authorities searched for at least one robbery suspect.

No details were immediately available, but the search kept residents out of the area for part of the afternoon. Franklin Street was temporarily closed at 2 p.m. between Raymond Place and Main Street.

State troopers, an ambulance and SWAT officers were in the area assisting Danbury police.

SWAT officers began searching the train tracks about 3 p.m. and the road was re-opened.

BROOKFIELD — An unlicensed driver who refused to stop for police Sunday night was arrested after he ran out of gas, authorities said.

An officer then tried to stop Mourning with his lights and sirens, but the driver refused to obey and began passing other cars through the southbound and northbound lanes, police said.

Earlier that day, Robert Hoagland had breakfast with his son, played online games and paid some bills before going outside to mow the lawn, according to witness and family accounts.

The initial investigation determined he had gone to a local bagel shop and then filled his car at a gas station on Church Hill Road, where he also bought a map, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUS).

Does a sunscreen with a sun protection factor of 30 protect offer twice as much protection as a product with an SPF of 15?

According to the American Cancer Society, about 5.4 million basal and squamous cell skin cancers are diagnosed each year.

Melanoma, the deadliest variety of skin cancer, will account for about 76,380 cases of cancer in 2016.

[...] another study, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, gives further evidence many people aren’t using sunscreen correctly, including some who are otherwise vigilant about sun protection.

In the study, published in the Journa

WASHINGTON — The Federal Railroad Administration issued two rules Friday aimed at preventing injury to track workers, an outgrowth of accidents including the death of Metro-North supervisor Robert Luden, who was killed in 2013 by a New York-bound commuter train.

The first rule, governing warnings that crews are on tracks, essentially is a belt-and-suspenders series of redundancies aimed at making extra sure trains don’t barrel through mistakenly while work is in progress.

In the wake of the 2013 fatality, Metro-North started its enhanced employee protection system,’’ in which the di