Redding Youth Donates Teddy Bears to BFD to Help Reassure Sick Children

#Bridgeport, CT – Dec. 24, 2013 – Ten-year-old Vladimir Romano has a simple explanation for why he sells  lemonade and buys teddy bears to give to fire departments for children. “I don’t want people to be more scared than I was,” he said in a visit to Bridgeport Fire Headquarters this morning. Vladimir was 3-years-old when he spiked a 105 degree temperature and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. He was scared. He remembers a firefighter putting a stuffed bear on his chest and it made him feel better. A couple years later, he opened his first lemonade stand and his mother, Merian Schwindeman, asked what he wanted to do with the money. “He said, ‘I’m going to give it…

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Hunter with legal documents arrest for town ordinance

Westport CT-- 12/23/2013,--William O’Brien of Fairfield, CT was issued an infraction after officers responded to a complaint of suspicious people in the woods. O’Brien was found cross bow hunting and had harvested a deer. While he did have a valid hunting permit and a signed private land consent form from the landowner, he was issued an infraction for 26-97 violation of Westport’s Town Ordinance against hunting.

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Pizza Delivery Driver Robbed

#Bridgeport, CT – Saturday, Dec. 21– A delivery driver was robbed in the PT Barnum housing complex. Officer Donald Bensey was dispatched to the location just after midnight. The driver stated that he was making a delivery when he was robbed by two males who intimated that they had a gun.  The robbers made off with cash, a pepperoni pizza and two-liter soda bottle.

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