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Police officer John Derisme said he saw Greene raise his right hand with a gun and take a shot at a crowd of people outside of Glamour Bar on West Park Place early Sunday morning, according to a report of his arrest.

Greene pleaded not guilty to criminal possession of a weapon, illegal discharge of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit and reckless endangerment.

According to the police report, Derisme said he saw a large group come out of the Glamour Bar and walk toward West Main Street before continuing onto Clark Street.

STAMFORD — The city’s Emergency Medical Service has once again earned an accreditation that few ambulance groups in the country can claim.

Stamford Emergency Medical Service earned another three-year stamp of approval from the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services.

STAMFORD — Safia Hamada was sprawled on a cushy round chair at the corner of Bedford and Broad, eyes shut, surrounded by red party cups.

Hamada, a sophomore at Brien McMahon High School, was part of a candid demonstration Friday led by teens from Stamford and Norwalk to raise awareness about sexual assault.

The group has also brought attention to mental illness, domestic violence and child brides, she said.

According to a statement from Danbury Assistant Fire Chief Mark Omasta, Danbury’s 911 center received a call about the crash at 10:43 p.m. First responders arrived to find all westbound traffic blocked by a two-vehicle collision between a compact car and a large pickup truck.

STAMFORD —Taking the stand in the Shota Mekoshvili murder trial Friday, Crime Scene Investigator Edward Rondano said just writing “multiple stab wounds” in the reports he was writing on the grisly death of Mahomed Kamal did come close to capturing what happened to the taxicab driver in August 2014.

Not when there were over 100,” Rondano told the jury, after nearly three hours showing dozens of gruesome pictures of the wounds, primarily on Kamal’s face, neck, head, hands and arms suffered during the attack that one police officer at the time called “medieval.

After showing the ju

STAMFORD — STAMFORD-Police and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are investigating the untimely death of a one-month old baby boy, police said.

Barcello said a crime scene investigator was sent to Farmington and was present at the baby’s autopsy. he declined to release the name of the baby.

STAMFORD-A half-day after police recovered a 10-year-old girl abducted and taken to New York City, the girl’s mother was arraigned on a felony charge of custodial interference at the Stamford courthouse Friday.

Police say that Cuevas abducted the child Wednesday afternoon after luring her out of a a bedroom window of the child’s grandmother, who had legal custody of the child.

Police said the grandmother suspected that Cuevas was behind the disappearance because she tried to remove the child from her school earlier in the day.

Models walked the runway sporting spring ensembles from local shops at the Downtown Special Services District’s Fashion Night Out Wednesday at 75 Tresser.

The rush into the Bronx by police investigators got started after the child’s grandmother and legal guardian called police to report the child was missing from her room, Lt. Diedrich Hohn said. The grandmother told police her suspicions were stoked by a report from the girl’s elementary school that the mother tried to take her out of the facility sometime during the school day on Wednesday.

Hohn said that police are not asking the state for an Amber Alert on the child because they do not believe she is in danger of serious physical injury at this time.