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STAMFORD-Despite the state’s star witness near refusal to take the stand, a jury last week found a Bridgeport man guilty of the home invasion, burglary and the assault of his Norwalk girlfriend.

When the victim took the stand on the day the trial started Tuesday, June 27, she told the jury, judge and prosecutor that she did not want to be there to answer questions about the night she was brutally attacked inside her Laura Street home on Dec.

Despite the rocks being posted “keep off” the 24-year-old woman said that she was entitled to a “satisfactory” explanation for why she had to leave and demanded to see the lifeguard’s supervisor “in person,” Lynch said.

After being flagged down by the lifeguard’s supervisor, the parks police officer climbed over the boulders and rip rap to get to the end of the jetty.

A police captain was sent to the home and went through the rules with the workers before allowing them to continue.

The 10 who showed up on Fox Glen Drive are among 1,800 in-house cable technicians belonging to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 who walked out March 28 in their quest to preserve health and pension benefits under a new contract.

Charter rebranded its offerings of digital TV, Internet and voice products as Spectrum and are used by about 2.5 million customers in New York and New Jersey.

STAMFORD-Within five minutes of responding to call for a woman stabbed in the chest during a robbery in the South End Monday afternoon city police apprehended the suspect trying to flee the scene.

Donell “Lucky” Blake, 40, of Stone Ridge Circle, Stamford, was charged with two counts of armed robbery and first-degree assault.

“This was an example of excellent police work by officer Soderholm and numerous officers from A Squad which led to the arrest of a violent suspect, with a lengthy criminal history, all within of 5 minutes of the call being given out,” Hohn said in a press releas

“Augmented Reality allows users to superimpose a computer-generated image on a view of the real world, creating their own composite view,” according to the library.

The ARtscapes project invites kids, teens and adults to draw an original picture on a clear sheet of acetate that will then be scanned and uploaded to BlippAR, a free AR app.

STAMFORD — A 40-year-old city man was struck in his left calf when a gunman opened fire on Richmond Hill Avenue late Sunday afternoon, according to police. Police recovered six shell casings from the area and witnesses said the suspect was last seen running south on Taylor Street, Barcello said.

WESTPORT — A man with a scruffy bear and wearing a baseball cap robbed the TD Bank branch on the Post Road Sunday, making off with an undetermined amount of cash, police said.

The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 6’1 with a heavy build, scruffy beard and wearing a Chicago Bulls baseball cap.

Police said at about 2:14 a.m officers were called to a neighbor dispute at 950-952 State Street that turned violent, resulting in one man being shot.

While police investigated that homicide, another fatal shooting occurred in the parking lot of 140 Alice Street at 4:27 a.m. The victim lived in the building.

Tamburri also works down the street at Stamford Hospital, where she says a lack of employee parking on-site has staff leaving their cars at the Stamford Town Center mall downtown. After a long hiatus, officials voted Thursday to bring back the once-popular program with changes designed to help the city better determine which streets qualify. If given the final go-ahead next month, the program would benefit residents by establishing permit parking zones in congested areas where residents compete for parking with commuters and others who don’t live there.

STAMFORD — Two intoxicated brothers kicked out of a downtown watering hole Thursday night were arrested after fighting with officers and presenting them with fake IDs, police said.

When asked for ID, they presented officers with fake driver’s licenses from Ireland and the United Kingdom, police said.

The brothers were each charged with second-degree forgery, assault on an officer, interfering with an officer and creating a public disturbance.