Month: June 2014

Westport Police Department Announces Upcoming Promotions

    On Thursday, June 12, 2014 the Westport Police Department will promote five officers. The ceremony will take place at 3:00 P.M. in the Westport Police Department classroom. These promotions come after several months of competitive testing and will fill vacancies in rank created through retirements.   To be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant:     Sergeant Ryan Paulsson was hired in December 2000 and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in 2012. Sergeant Paulsson was the department’s Bloodhound handler for 10 years and has supervised the K9 Unit since 2010. Officer Paulsson serves as a tactical officer with the Southwest Regional Emergency Response Team, member of the Westport Police/Fire Dive-Rescue Team and the Marine Division. He is a…

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GOV. MALLOY: CONNECTICUT MAKING SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN ADDRESSING GLOBAL WARMING

  Report from DEEP Shows Decline in Carbon Emissions     (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Dannel P. Malloy said that Connecticut is making significant progress in reducing statewide emissions of harmful greenhouse gases (GHGs) to meet requirements set in state law, citing a report issued today by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) that details the state’s progress toward meeting the statutory mandate to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 10% below 1990 levels by 2020, and 80% below 2001 levels by 2050.   The report, required under Connecticut’s 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act (Public Act 08-98), demonstrates that Connecticut is clearly on a trajectory to meet the 2020 mandate much sooner than that date and is putting programs in place…

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Fairfield Police Investigate 2 Possible Abductions of Women

©2014 DoingItLocal.com NOT for broadcast, you must contact us first for conditions. #Fairfield CT--Fairfield Police investigated two reported abductions of women withing an hour between calls. The first call was around 8:30pm when a mother called police that her daughter went out on a jog and was missing. A short time later the mom called police that another family member received a call from the victim that she was confused and did not know where she was. She then reported that her assailant made her cut her face, not a stabbing as reported by other media. The victim was treated by AMR while Fairfield's K-9 Ruger and Officer Kevin Wells tracked the suspect in the wooded area behind Fairfield University…

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Fairfield Police Investigating Two Abductions of Women

#Fairfield CT--Fairfield Police Department are investigating two possible abductions of women. The first was at Fairfield University where a woman was stabbed by a white male wearing all black and a mask around 8:30pm(photo).  She escaped.   An hour later police responded to a caller that witnessed a black woman with a bloody nose be forced into a car by a Hispanic male in the Chip's parking lot on Tunxis Hill.  I'll have exclusive video from Fairfield University later.

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