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BETHEL — An armed man threatened patrons while pointing a gun in the air at a bar on Route 6 early Thursday morning, authorities said.

Officers were called to the Meeting House Pub, 37 Stony Hill Road, after getting reports of a drunken man acting in a confrontational manner toward other patrons, police said.

NEW MILFORD — Police said a local man shot his neighbor’s dog with a BB gun after the animal went into his property and growled at him.

Christopher Mumford, 63, was arrested on a warrant Tuesday and charged with animal cruelty and criminal mischief.

The incident took place on April 6, but the arrest warrant was just recently approved by state Superior Court in Bantam.

The dog had surgery and has since recovered, police said.

Mumford was released on a promise to appear in court May 31.

DANBURY — Police Chief Al Baker said Tuesday that former Mayor Gene Eriquez received no special treatment during his domestic violence arrest last weekend, when he was released on a promise to appear in court instead of booked into jail and required to post bond.

Eriquez, who is accused of beating his wife after coming home drunk Sunday morning, was considered unlikely to evade his court appearance, the chief said, and bond was therefore unnecessary.

Eriquez, who is also chairman of the city’s Democratic Party, was charged Sunday with third-degree assault, disorderly conduct and interfe

A motion hearing was held Monday in the case, and jury selection is scheduled to begin next Tuesday, Assistant State’s Attorney Colleen Zingaro said.

Authorities have not released much information on the case, but police have said Williams was watching Ayden and a 2-year-old son by another woman when an ambulance was called for a medical emergency at his Housman Street home.

An autopsy by the state Office of Chief Medical Examiner determined the toddler died of blunt force trauma to the head and subdural hemorrhaging.

SOUTHBURY — A 69-year-old driver died Friday after her car was hit by a dump truck on Main Street North, authorities said.

Ruth Grant, of Old Highway Road in Southbury, was driving west about 1 p.m. when the truck crashed into her Subaru Legacy, according to the police report.

She was taken to Waterbury Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police said the other driver was not injured. His truck is owned by a Watertown construction company.

The crash is under investigation.

A grocery store employee in South Salem, N.Y., faces burglary charges after police said she came into the building at night and stole cash from the registers.

New York State Police said they had received several reports of burglary at the store and decided to set up surveillance outside the building last Wednesday night.

Aides from the governor’s office have continually met with lawmakers in the House and Senate to follow through on support for the legislation, which failed to reach floor debates during the final days of the regular session this month, but which Malloy insisted would be taken up in the special session that began on May 5.

[...] while the House and Senate have both recessed after prolonged debates on the state’s nearly billion-dollar budget deficit that Democrats say they have erased in a new $19.7-billion budget set to take effect July 1, the chambers may reconvene as early as this week

HARTFORD — With eight Democrats voting against the new budget, the House narrowly passed a $19.7 billion spending package that will take effect July 1.

More than $220 million is expected to be cut in benefits for non-unionized employees, through a hiring freeze and normal attrition, and through at least 2,000 layoffs of unionized state workers.

Republicans, with a 64-87 House minority, said the budget process was flawed and that the product itself does not contain the long-term changes needed to lift Connecticut out of a continued cycle of revenue shortfalls and higher spending.

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Taveras, who was under several protective orders banning him from contacting the woman, is accused of entering her apartment armed with an AK-47, tying her to a chair, taping her mouth, threatening to kill her, and sexually assaulting her.

Court records claim the violent home invasion took place May 28, 2014, while the victim and defendant’s 5-year-old son and one of her friends were in the apartment.

Taveras is accused of aggravated sexual assault, home invasion, unlawful restraint, threatening, criminal possession of a firearm, assault with a firearm, risk of injury to a child, strangul

DANBURY — A former Brookfield Public Schools’ finance director returned to court this week for his fraud case, but did not appear before a judge.

Attorneys for the state and defense met behind closed doors Friday morning before continuing the case.