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The proposal would have added an extra member per voting district, bringing total membership to 60, a change its chairman, Josh Fedeli, argued would provide better representation and expand the committee to new members.

The hearing was held by the Board of the Finance and Board of Representatives Fiscal Committee at Westover Magnet Elementary School.

Besides the Boys & Girls Club program, community members urged board members to keep funding intact for the Ferguson Library and Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic — which are independently run but receive some help from the city — and special education.

On Monday, police charged Sistrunk, 28, of Southwood Drive, Stamford, with identity theft, falsely procuring a credit card, sixth-degree larceny and two counts of attempted sixth-degree larceny.

When he went to Walgreens where one of the cards was used, he found the electronic trail that led to Sistrunk’s donnybrook, the use of her own savings card when she tried to make the transaction, Scanlan said.

Because Sistruck used her own card it voided the transaction, but the cards belonging to the woman were used elsewhere, including a gas station where Sistrunk is accused of filling up her ca

STAMFORD-In a ceremony that nearly filled the Government Center lobby Monday morning, officers Brendan Phillips, Sean Boeger and Brian Butler were promoted to the rank of sergeant.

Public Safety Director Ted Jankowski told the three to provide for the well-being and safety of the officers under their command.

[...] Jankowski, a retired New York Fire Department deputy chief, pointed out retired FDNY Deputy Chief Kevin Butler, and personally thanked him for providing positive encouragement during his career in New York City.

Before having each of the newly minted sergeants introduce the fami

[...] in his second term as a state senator, the Branford Democrat and disability advocate is said by multiple sources to be strongly leaning toward a run for governor in 2018.

A person close to Kennedy put the chances at “90 percent” that the health care lawyer and son of the late “liberal lion” Edward M. Kennedy jumps into the race, capitalizing on his name recognition and a potential vacuum if fellow Democrat Dannel P.

STAMFORD-A patrol lieutenant helped catch one of two juvenile burglary suspects by chasing one of the boys across the frigid Mianus River shortly after noon Friday.

Lt. Tom Scanlon could be heard on the radio calling out that one of the suspects was escaping by running across the Mianus River behind Highline Trail in North Stamford just a few minutes after 12:00 p.m. A few moments later he reported the suspect in custody.

STAMFORD-Police and firefighters are responding to an accident where a dump truck struck a car and took down a telephone pole.

Police are reporting that there are wires all over the intersection of Greenwich Avenue and West Street.

It is not known if there was anyone injured in the accident that was reported at 3:12 p.m. Friday.

Police are closing down the intersection and trying to keep the public away from the energized wires. Three power poles are reported to be toppled by the accident.

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STAMFORD-A city teen behind the wheel of a stolen car spotted going the wrong way on Bedford Street past the police headquarters was apprehended after a pursuit took police into Greenwich early Friday morning.

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STAMFORD-Two city men were struck by a pickup truck while crossing Hope Street in a crosswalk next to the Springdale Railroad Station Thursday night, police said.

Through an interpreter, the two told police they checked the southbound lane before stepping off the curb and saw nothing.

STAMFORD — A baby shower murder fugitive who was apprehended at his girlfriend’s West Side home last week has been extradited back to New York, police said.

According to the New York Daily News, 39-year-old Hilario Cortez-Vidals was killed after being shot in the face while attending an after-party for a baby shower at a Brooklyn catering hall on New Year’s Eve.