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STAMFORD-A Stamford boy has been charged with leading police on a chase past the New York state border in a stolen pickup truck and ramming three police cars before flipping the vehicle over on its roof.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said the chase began just after midnight Sunday when a red truck whizzed past a patrol car that was on East Main Street near Lockwood Avenue.

The officers gave chase and tried to stop the vehicle without success.

STAMFORD — Gov. Dannel Malloy announced at an appearance in his hometown Monday that just hours earlier his son and daughter-in-law welcomed his and wife Cathy’s first grandchild.

Malloy, Stamford’s former mayor, said Grace was born at 3:30 a.m. She is the daughter of Malloy’s oldest son, Dannel, and his wife.

STAMFORD — The mayor and city officials are marking the opening of the Take It or Leave It swap shop at the Katrina Mygatt Recycling Center Tuesday.

The swap shop has items like toys, furniture and housewares salvaged at the recycling center that the city would otherwise pay to cart away. All items are free.

Passenger cars with residential plates can drop off up to 200 pounds of garbage a day at the center for free. There are different rules for commercial vehicles and those seeking to dump above the limit.

The shop at 130 Magee Ave.

STAMFORD-A 63-year-old Willowbrook Avenue man was charged by police over the weekend with shooting his neighbor’s car window out with a BB gun for parking in front of his home.

On the morning of Sept. 12, police were called to Willowbrook Avenue on a vandalism complaint at about 9:30 a.m. When police got there a woman told them that her passenger side window had been shot out and she suspected that an older male neighbor vandalized her car because he hates it whenever anyone parks in front of his home, Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said.

STAMFORD-A troubled juvenile old boy was taken into custody in the mid-afternoon on a busy downtown street Friday after he was found carrying a loaded semiautomatic pistol, police said.

Capt. Richard Conklin said an officer on the Narcotics and Organized Crime squad got some heard on the street that a 16-year-old boy who police have had a lot of interactions with was walking downtown with a pistol in his waistband.

Officers raced down Bedford Street and saw the kid with a group of other youths at the corner of Bedford and Broad streets. They stopped him at 3:35 p.m.

STAMFORD-Police say a city woman was the victim of an armed robbery near Fairway Market in Stamford’s South End on Sunday morning.

Sgt. Jennifer Lynch said a woman was walking north on John Street looking at her phone when a stranger came up from behind her at about 9:30 a.m. The unidentified man got in front of her and tried to grab the phone out of her hand while holding a black gun in his other hand.

The 32-year-old woman was wearing a purse strapped across her body and the man began trying to wrestle the purse away from her. “Give it to me.

STAMFORD-City police continue to search for a drive-by shooter who wounded a man on Stillwater Avenue early Saturday afternoon.

Lt. Tom Barcello said a 29-year-old man standing on the sidewalk at Stillwater and Fairfield avenues was shot in the arm and side at about 2:30 p.m.

One of the bullets shattered the man’s left arm breaking it and the other shot went into the man’s abdomen nicking more than one internal organ,police said. While the man was sitting up and conscious when police got there, he was rushed to Stamford Hospital and put in the intensive care unit.

STAMFORD-The manager of a Norwalk strip club shuttered following an undercover drug investigation in late 2015 was sentenced to jail Friday for selling cocaine to undercover officers on three occasions.

Former manager and bartender of The Office Cafe at Liberty Square in East Norwalk, Leigha Rybnick, 43, formerly of Old Colony Road, Stamford was sentenced to the mandatory minimum five years in jail by Judge Richard Comerford on the drug charges at the Stamford courthouse.

STAMFORD — Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a 17-year-old boy who apparently shot himself Friday afternoon in a Bedford Street apartment. Police say the boy was driven to Stamford Hospital and was initially not cooperative with the investigation. The boy suffered a non-life-threatening wound to his hip. Police recovered a small-caliber gun inside the apartment. The investigation remains ongoing, but police said the shooting appears to be accidental. "We are not ruling anything in or anything out at this point,” Lt. Thomas Barcello said.

STAMFORD — An effort to ban texting in city crosswalks is losing steam as it heads for the full Board of Representatives next week. The Transportation Committee took no action Thursday on the ordinance, which was up for publication. This doesn’t stop the ordinance from moving forward, but a board member would have to bring it to a vote Monday without a committee recommendation and without a public hearing at the committee level.