- Norwalk Police Officer Neil Robertson acted quickly to avert a possible tragedy by preventing a Metro-North train from hitting a car at a crossing in Norwalk this week.
- High-end fashion retailer Nordstrom plans to open a full-line store in Norwalk on West Avenue near the entrances to I-95 and Route 7.
- Janet Hasson of Greenwich resigned as publisher of The Journal-News, a daily newspaper in Westchester County.
- Children's author Patricia Polacco visited visit Newfield Elementary School in Stamford on Friday.
- A woman robbed Chase Bank on Noroton Avenue in Darien on Tuesday afternoon.
- New Canaan resident and Norwalk businessman Ted Stanley was named the third-most philanthropic man in the U.S. by the Chronicle of Philanthropy on Tuesday.
- Four Wilton High School students were named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program recently.
- An Easton man will serve 15 years in prison after entering a no contest plea to charges of trying to hang his wife in their garage about a year ago,
- Ridgefield's Prospector Theater was featured on the NBC Nightly News.
- Bikram Chodhry, the man at the head of the Bikram Yoga empire, which has locations in Ridgefield and Danbury, is facing several civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault or rape, according to The New York Times.
- U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty recently toured the Danbury Hospital Biomedical Research Institute and met with a team of the institute's scientists.
- A student at Rochester Institute Of Technology in New York, Max Maisel of Fairfield, went missing from campus last Sunday, prompting a wide-ranging search.
- Steve Stafstrom and Edwin Gomes won special elections for state office in Bridgeport.
- Westport residents Steven Laitmon and his wife, Jerri Graham, have established Nothin' But Premium Foods, a maker of granola bars, as a leading brand and will be in more stores in the next few months.
- A New Milford man pleaded guilty earlier to charges in the hit-and-run death of a Weston man on his bicycle in 2013.
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