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10-Year-Old Behind The Wheel, Deaths On I-95 Top Week's News In New Canaan

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. — Here are some of the top stories of the week from across Fairfield County as reported by Daily Voice — in case you missed it. 

Lisa Nussbaum

Lisa Nussbaum

Photo Credit: Monroe Police Department
Harry Hamlet

Harry Hamlet

Photo Credit: Monroe Police Department
The weather in the past week went from spring on Wednesday, at left, as a man feeds the birds at a beach in Stratford to winter, at right, where snow is beginning to accumulate outside the Stamford Police Headquarters on Friday.

The weather in the past week went from spring on Wednesday, at left, as a man feeds the birds at a beach in Stratford to winter, at right, where snow is beginning to accumulate outside the Stamford Police Headquarters on Friday.

Photo Credit: File
What's going up on Newtown Road in Danbury? That's a new Texas Roadhouse restaurant.

What's going up on Newtown Road in Danbury? That's a new Texas Roadhouse restaurant.

Photo Credit: Karen Tensa
Jeremy Middleton

Jeremy Middleton

Photo Credit: Stamford Police Department
U.S. Attorney for Connecticut Deirdre Daly

U.S. Attorney for Connecticut Deirdre Daly

Photo Credit: Department of Justice website
From left, Danbury High School seniors Kim Meerman and Anna Port have organized a bone marrow drive at their school.

From left, Danbury High School seniors Kim Meerman and Anna Port have organized a bone marrow drive at their school.

Photo Credit: contributed
Humayaun Chowdhury

Humayaun Chowdhury

Photo Credit: Norwalk Police Department
Larry Morris Glucksman

Larry Morris Glucksman

Photo Credit: Stamford Police Department
From left, Taylor Alves of Naugatuck and Allie Johnstone of Orange, enjoying a Freak Shake at Creme & Sugar in Bethel

From left, Taylor Alves of Naugatuck and Allie Johnstone of Orange, enjoying a Freak Shake at Creme & Sugar in Bethel

Photo Credit: Sandra Diamond Fox
Cami Demace

Cami Demace

Photo Credit: Fairfield Police Department
Hilary Flora

Hilary Flora

Photo Credit: Wilton Police Department
Lucky Keophannga and his family

Lucky Keophannga and his family

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William Donofrio

William Donofrio

Photo Credit: Shelton Police Department
Popeyes is coming soon to Stratford's The Dock Shopping Center.

Popeyes is coming soon to Stratford's The Dock Shopping Center.

Photo Credit: Meredith Guinness
The new location of Wilton Auto & Tire Center at 658 Danbury Road.

The new location of Wilton Auto & Tire Center at 658 Danbury Road.

Photo Credit: Sandra Diamond Fox

Lisa Nussbaum, 38, a Monroe mother who decided let her 10-year-old drive a car through town while she broadcast it on Facebook Live, was arrested. A few days later, her boyfriend, Harry Hamlet, 40, of Monroe was charged with doing the same thing in a separate incident.

Birdwatchers and kitesurfers hit the beach in Lordship at midweek as temperatures soared toward 60. But then winter returned, with schools closed and 3 to 5 inches of snowfall. 

Cami Demace, 36, of Shelton, is charged with using falsified prescriptions to buy controlled drugs at the Walgreen’s in Fairfield, police said.

Jeremy Middleton, 19, of Stamford, was arrested in the murder of his friend, fellow Stamford resident Shane Slinsky, 18, in a drug deal gone wrong in a Bridgeport parking lot last summer, police said.

Connecticut State Police busted five people on charges of operating a drug-trafficking ring out of two grocery stores in Bridgeport.

You're fired: Deirdre Daly of Fairfield was abruptly ordered by the Trump administration to hand in her resignation as U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut on Friday.

A 14-year-old student at Brien McMahon High was charged with creating a threatening piece of artwork, along with a hit list of students and staff, police said.

A Norwalk tenant, 50-year-old Humayaun Chowdhury, was charged with taking everything — except the kitchen sink — when he moved out. 

A new Texas Roadhouse restaurant is taking shape and is set to open June, much to the delight of Danbury diners. 

A woman died after jumping on to Interstate 95 from an overpass in Stamford in an apparent suicide, state police said.

In another I-95 fatality the same day, Bridgeport's Lucky Keophannga died two days after his 23rd birthday when his car crashed into the back of an illegally parked tractor-tailer at the rest area in Fairfield.

Danbury High senior Anna Port, who is a cancer survivor, is teaming with classmate Kim Meerman to organize a bone marrow drive.

Danbury native Jill Hancock is fighting to keep open A Common Ground, a community arts center she founded in 1999

With hundreds of bears spotted every year in Fairfield County, the most recent warning of a sighting came in the northern part of New Fairfield

In an analysis of the nation's most expensive places to raise a family, the Stamford-Norwalk area came in at No. 5 and Danbury was ranked 10th.

Larry Morris Glucksman, a 69-year-old Stamford lawyer, has been arrested again on charges of stealing a client's money by diverting $157,378 from an estate, police said. 

A woman was arrested after yelling at a security guard who had just broken up a fight between her daughter and another student at the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering in Stamford.

Cheese sold at the Whole Foods in Fairfield is linked to a deadly outbreak of Listeria that has left two people dead. 

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Stratford-based Northeast Horticultural Services, owned by Stacey Marcell, who has made her mark in the male-dominated tree care industry

The community is rallying to help Bethel's Danielle Cyr, who is nursing an abandoned rescue horse with cancer back to good health.

Hilary Flora, 58,  of Weston woman, was more than three times the legal alcohol limit when she had an accident with a 6-year-old child in her car in Wilton, police said.

Customers are going berserk for the foot-high Freak Shakes and Freak Sundaes at Bethel's Cream & Sugar Cafe. 

William Donofrio, a 25-year-old Shelton man, was charged in a hit-and-run crash last May that left a 54-year-old woman dead, police said.

Stratford's first Popeyes is going up Louisiana fast at The Dock Shopping Center.

Onaje Smith, 18, of Bridgeport, is the second suspect arrested in an execution-style attempted murder in Stamford, police said. 

Business is revving up at Wilton Auto & Tire Center, which moved to a renovated building that's 10 times larger than its former location.

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