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STAMFORD — The city’s police union has filed a labor complaint because officers are now required to carry a life-saving drug to reverse the effects of an overdose that’s not included in their contract.

Members of the Stamford Police Department began carrying Narcan in July after the city experienced a spike in overdoses earlier this year.

STAMFORD-Davenport Ridge Elementary School may have a delayed opening following a carpet cleaning spill at the school that happened earlier in the morning.

Buses are being rerouted for their drop-offs and parents bringing their children to the school on Newfield Avenue are being asked to use a different driveway.

A truck from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is on its way into the school at this time.

STAMFORD-City police flooded the area around a downtown park Monday afternoon after a couple told police they had been held up at gunpoint.

Luckily just as the brazen robbery in broad daylight was occurring, a patrol car that happened to be driving up Greenwich Avenue scared the teenaged would-be robbers off.

Sgt. Jennifer Pinto said a couple collecting cans and bottles in Rotary Park, just south of Tresser Boulevard on Greenwich Avenue said they were approached by two teenagers on bicycles just after 5 p.m. Monday,

One of the youths asked the man for $5.

STAMFORD-A city man who was caught trying to pass counterfeit bills last week and then ate a receipt being kept by police as evidence of his crime, was arrested again for allegedly being in possession of more than two dozen phony bills.

Eugene Lyles, 56, of Willowbrook Court, was charged over the weekend with 27 counts of first-degree forgery, three counts of attempted first-degree forgery and possession of drug paraphernalia.

STAMFORD-Two men accused of stabbing Stamford’s Joseph Comunale with a knife and then cutting him up and burying him in a shallow grave are appearing in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday.

STAMFORD-An Oregon man was extradited from his home state over the weekend for allegedly collecting deposits from three Stamford residents in 2013 and fleeing without performing any work.

John Mech, 56, of Astoria, Oregon, was charged with three counts each of third-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit larceny and impersonating a licensed home contractor. At his arraignment at the Stamford courthouse Monday afternoon, Judge Richard Comerford ordered that he be held in lieu of a $50,000 court appearance bond.

STAMFORD — A Guatemalan man who admitted to sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl he was babysitting will spend 10 years in jail before he’s deported.

Douglas Hus-Flores, 20, of Stamford, declined to say anything as he stood Monday before Judge Gary White, who handed down the minimum sentence for first-degree sexual assault. Public defender Howard Ehring said his client, who came to the United States two years ago, will be deported after he serves his sentence.

White also issued a 50-year protective order preventing Hus-Flores from having contact with the child until September 2067.

STAMFORD-Police say the identification card of a Stamford man left in the back seat of a cab that was robbed at gunpoint Sunday morning led directly to their suspect.

Sgt. Chris Broems said police were called by a USA Taxi driver at 3:40 a.m. Sunday by a cabbie who said he had just been robbed. The man said he picked up a fare at the Stamford train station and drove the man to Southwood Square.

But when the cabbie asked the man for the $8 and change fare, he said the man pulled a gun and put it to the drivers head and demanded his money.

STAMFORD-A precious metals buyer at the Stamford mall had its license suspended by police after failing to report its purchases since opening six months ago.

Property Crimes Sgt. Sean Scanlan said the precious metals license issued to American Coins and Gold at Town Center Mall will be suspended until Oct. 15. He said he doubted the business would reopen.

Scanlan said on top of not reporting to police who brought coins, gold and silver to the store for sale on a weekly basis as required by state law, the company was also illegally offered cash for those items.

STAMFORD — Three people were seriously injured Sunday morning in a car crash on Interstate-95 Southbound.

A Stamford man was driving in the right lane between Exits 9 and 8 around 1 a.m. Sunday when he drifted into the right shoulder and hit the the metal guardrail multiple times, according to state police. The car then climbed up over the guardrail and hit a tree.

The driver, Joseph Anthony Cavaliere, 27, and passengers, Meredith Raus, 28, and Adam Godlewski, 27, all from Stamford, were seriously injured and sent to Stamford Hospital, according to police.