Crime & Safety
'Congratulations! Now, About Those Fiery Balloons...'
Balloons on fire, fired guns, fiery disputes, and perhaps some pants on fire.
A wedding party celebrating on a Fairfield beach last weekend
(In 2010, flaming balloons devastated a national park near Rio de Janiero.)
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Fairfield police are accusing a Bridgeport man of .
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Close to $400 worth of from Rite Aid Pharmacy in Monroe. A man wearing a white T-shirt and a black jacket, who appeared to be in his early 20s, stole eight Wii games valued at $14.99 each, eight Playstation 2 games at $19.99 each and eight X-Box 360 games at $14.99 each for a total of $399.76, according to police.
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No one was injured in a pre-dawn incident that police in Greenwich say involved . Two of the four Greenwich residents arrested face criminal possession of a firearm charges, while two others are accused of lying to police to cover up what happened.
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Police in Stamford say that when they arrested a man on nine outstanding warrants after he allegedly couldn't pay his $500 strip club bill, he told them the White House would be calling to inform them of his diplomatic immunity. The call never came.
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There were two separate incidents involving gunfire this week on the streets of Stamford.
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A Norwalk man arguing with his father while watching a boxing match is accused of stabbing his girlfriend's dog when it wouldn't stop barking.
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A father and daughter were both arrested in Norwalk following a physical altercation that allegedly occurred after the father took the girl's computer because she had returned home late. The girl scratched the man's face, who then hit her in the mouth and strangled her, according to police reports.
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An adult female opossum nearly died after it was hit by a car in front of a supermarket in Monroe this week, officers with the town's Animal Control unit say. The ().
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In the same week that a town woman reported nearly $20,000 in jewelry stolen from her home, police in New Canaan also received a complaint that .
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Police in New Canaan say a town couple may have been home, downstairs watching TV, when someone .
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