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Lower combined turnout for the six Thursday concerts, popular mostly with millennials, was offset by record attendance for Wednesday Nite Live, featuring musical acts targeted to a different demographic.

Canceled shows and declining turnout mean a financial hit for the DSSD, which charges $15 admission, and Main Street bars and restaurants that pay the business improvement district to operate outside during the event.

[...] last year’s Third Eye Blind show drew a record crowd of 9,000 who packed the downtown park.

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The trust accounts are used when client funds are collected for many reasons, including home sales, retainers and personal injury settlements.

Random audits of trust funds are conducted weekly throughout the state, Assistant Chief Disciplinary Counsel Beth Baldwin said.

A February 2016 audit showed Hoffman’s trustee accounts were at a $1.5 million deficit, according to his four-page arrest affidavit prepared by Stamford State’s Attorney inspector John Forlivio.

The unusual theft and its clumsy attemped cover-up is making the rounds online, thrusting a small satellite branch of Stamford’s Ferguson Library into the media spotlight.

Marissa Bucci, the youth services librarian at the Weed Memorial & Hollander Branch, had been nurturing a promising zucchini in a raised bed on the library’s patio, only to find it missing Tuesday — replaced with a similarly shaped imposter vegetable.

STAMFORD-A city man was punched after refusing to give money to a group of teens while sitting in his car in a parking lot on Prospect Street just before midnight Thursday, police said.

The man told police he was sitting in the driveway of the For Your Convenience store next to Dunkin’ Donuts a short distance from the Stamford police department at 11:45 p.m. when several teens walked up to the car he was sitting in.

STAMFORD — A speech therapist has been accused of not taking a child to school and lying about where they went for the day, police said.

The parents said Flockhart, who accompanies the child to a private school each day, did not bring the child to class and kept their location secret all day, police said.

Kennedy said Flockhart told investigators the child had a bathroom accident in the car on the way to school and they returned home to change clothes.

STAMFORD-A Stamford police officer shot with his own gun when it dropped to the ground in January is suing the manufacturer of the weapon for more than $6 million, charging that the pistol was defective.

Officer Vincent Sheperis filed a civil suit in federal court charging that gun manufacturer Sig Sauer sold its P320 pistol with a design defect, falsely represented that the pistol would not fire unless the trigger was pulled and caused him emotional distress.

Sheperis has had to undergo physical therapy as well as additional surgery to repair the damage caused by the bullet, the suit said.

A short time later three boys were stopped by police and the robbery victim was brought by where they were being detained to have a look at them.

The man ended up identifying one of the boys, who was 16, and he was taken to the Youth Bureau at police headquarters and booked on robbery charges.

The man told police the two were young black males about six-foot two inches tall and skinny.

Officers Will Garay and Daniel DeRocco teamed with the Narcotics and Organized Crime Squad and conducted surveillance of the Lockwood Avenue home where Gray and Hoffman live, Conklin said.

Hoffman and Gray were charged with possession of narcotics, sale of narcotics and conspiracy charges.

Many of these dealers take a train or car ride into New York City, where they can buy prepackaged heroin extremely cheaply.

STAMFORD-A troubled man from Milford was charged with saying he was going to shoot someone at a Stamford security company because he did not get a job offer after interviewing there.

Police in Milford were immediately notified and they went to Adam’s home and arrested him and confiscated Adam’s guns and permit.

In his arrest affidavit, Bridgeport mortgage banker Salvatore Mancuso, 37, of French Street, is alleged to have threatened to send the videos his ex-girlfriend made with him to her new boyfriend if she does not take back the domestic assault allegations she made against him in mid-July.

According to Mancuso’s arrest warrant, his ex-girlfriend called Stamford police a day after the domestic incident happened in Stamford to tell them that Mancuso defied a protective order keeping him from contacting his ex bu ringing her up to threaten her into telling police she made the whole thing up.

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