[Update: I just got word minutes ago that all three suspects have been identified and arrests are imminent.] [ Update: Conductor Bobby was on the train at the time and files this report on Derailed (scroll down a little to '11/16'). ] MTA has released surveillance photos of the three women wanted for questioning in [...]

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A riot with police erupted in Stamford Port Chester Greenwich this weekend, with a rioter attempting to steal an officer’s nightstick while another tried to hit him on the back of the head with a rock. Curiously, the event seemed completely unrelated to financial malfeasance, backcountry spouse disposal, school cupcakes, drug-addled plastic surgeons or any [...]

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A parks worker in White Plains was discarding an abandoned black canvas suitcase which had been left in the park, when a leg popped out of the side. The body in the suitcase was that of a drug mule, believed to have traveled from the Dominican Republic. Inside the man’s body were numerous packets of [...]

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Cheryl Madison of Bridgeport was arrested on charges of second-degree assault and second-degree breach of peace for stabbing her husband on the South Norwalk Metro-North platform Saturday night. Witnesses said the husband had been lambasting the wife for her behavior at a block party they had attended earlier, and that Madison had made a thrusting [...]

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I could not live without my Garmin Nuvi GPS unit. When I originally got it, very few people had aftermarket GPS systems – now I see them stuck on windshields all over Fairfield County. Starting with the Nuvi, GPS systems got a hell of a lot easier to use, and are now about half the [...]

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One Greenwich Plaza, part of an 2-building office complex adjacent to the Greenwich Metro-North Train Station, was evacuated yesterday when a package broke open in a mail room and a suspicious powder came out, contaminating a mail room worker’s hands. The Stamford Bomb Squad and FBI were called in to remove the package and investigate. [...]

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On Tuesday, May 13th, Greenwich High School student Victor Hugo Londono was tasered by School Resource Officer Carlos Franco when Londono resisted arrest. The fallout from this incident has tempers flaring amongst students, teachers, parents, and law enforcement throughout the community, as reflected in the comments on the Stamford Advocate’s coverage of the story. Of [...]

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