08/11/09 The Danbury Briefing By Robo Blogger (Updated)

Comprehensive News Feed for Danbury, CT.

• Police enforcing fed. immigration laws
  posted on August 12, 2009 06:58:32 am
  Federal authorities have approved a controversial partnership between Danbury police and immigration officials to crack down on illegal aliens.
• Triple-H weather again today
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:37:20 pm
  ... these storms may be severe. The dew point is in the sticky 70-degree territory throughout the region this morning. Danbury recorded the state's early-morning low this morning - 69 degrees. Temperatures will likely reach the upper 80s in Danbury to ...
• Feds: Danbury police can enforce immigration laws
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:36:14 pm
  Federal authorities have approved a controversial partnership between Danbury police and immigration officials to crack down on illegal aliens.
• Teen attack suspect in court
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:34:48 pm
  ... said the suspect, who has not been named because he is a minor, was scheduled for an initial hearing Monday in Danbury Juvenile Court. His arraignment Tuesday, as was Monday's hearing in Danbury, will be closed to the public because he is a ...
• ARC help to Danbury's needy quadruples in the past year
  posted on August 11, 2009 09:33:35 pm
  ... program. Checks can be made out to ARC, marked "For Emergency Aid'' and mailed to the ARC office at 325 Main St., Danbury CT 06810. Leopold said ARC has run the emergency aid program for about 20 years. It supplies people in need with some basics. ...
• Danbury police can enforce immigration
  posted on August 11, 2009 07:05:52 pm
  Federal authorities have approved a controversial partnership between Danbury police and immigration officials to crack down on illegal aliens.
• Talking out of both sides of his mouth
  posted on August 10, 2009 03:00:00 pm
  In honor of Danbury being accepted into the ICE prorgam , lets look at some past quotes from the last honest man in the city.
• 'Salute to Sinatra' dance fundraiser Friday in Danbury
  posted on August 11, 2009 01:52:18 pm
  ... It will be very romantic." The evening begins at 7:30. Desserts will be provided by Two Steps Downtown Grille in Danbury. Everyone will also receive a music CD called "Thinking of Gene: Mike Berkowitz and the Gene Krupa Orchestra." Aside from Two ...
• Feds approve Danbury ICE partnership
  posted on August 11, 2009 01:51:49 pm
  ... welcome to provide input during the process, Baker said. Luis Bautista, president of the Ecuadorian Civic Center in Danbury, said immigrants' worries about the program have declined because the partnership is geared toward criminal offenders. He ...
• Holland BPW, PraxAir hope $250 million carbon-sequestration project gains feds' favor
  posted on August 11, 2009 01:32:14 pm
  ... momentum, after being initially turned down by the U.S. Department of Energy . The Holland Board of Public Works and Danbury, Conn.-based PraxAir, Inc. , were rejected last month for the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Coal Power Initiative. But ...
• Defendants in finch-fighting case seek deal
  posted on August 11, 2009 02:02:35 pm
  ... Most relied on a Portuguese interpreter to translate the proceedings. All of the 19 men, including eight from Danbury, arrested July 26 for betting on finches trained to fight each other, had their cases continued until Sept. 1. They didn't even ...
• Newtown woman arrested for drunken driving
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:22:49 am
  ... of someone driving erratically on Commerce Drive. Simmons was released on a $500 bond and is scheduled to appear in Danbury Superior Court on Aug. 19.
• Brookfield police arrest Newtown woman for drunken driving
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:22:35 am
  ... smelled of alcohol. Derrickson then failed a field sobriety test, police said. She is scheduled to appear Aug. 21 in Danbury Superior Court.
• Former Hatter GM in NEPHL
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:21:27 am
  Brendan Tedstone went through much of last year without getting paid in his position as general manager of the Danbury Mad Hatters of the Eastern Professional Hockey League.
• Danbury teen arrested after domestic disturbance
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:17:32 am
  Andrew Haughlinghouse, 17, of Skyline Drive, was charged Sunday with third-degree assault and disorderly conduct after being involved in a domestic disturbance, police said. Haughlinghouse was released Sunday on a written promise to appear Monday in Danbury Superior Court.
• Rodeo comes to Danbury Arena
  posted on August 11, 2009 10:17:03 am
  ... of dirt. But there were plenty of people in the stands as Brazil's second-most popular sport, rodeo, came to the Danbury Arena over the weekend. "It's very good fun. We enjoy it very much," said Verusca Confortini, whose boyfriend, Rafael Melotti, ...
• Sounds Incredible in Brookfield to close its retail operation
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:25:40 am
  After serving greater Danbury area residents for more than 35 years, Sounds Incredible will be closing their doors.
• ARC help to needy quadruples in the past year
  posted on August 11, 2009 04:25:32 am
  ... he program. Checks can be made out to ARC, marked "For Emergency Aid'' and mailed to the ARC office at 325 Main St., Danbury CT 06810.
• Former WASP honored by Dodd for service to her country
  posted on August 11, 2009 01:13:55 am
  ... "There were all sorts of maneuvers I had to do to make sure the planes were safe to fly," she said from her Danbury home Saturday. "I realized we were making a breakthrough for women and was happy doing it." From 1942 to 1944, more than 1,000 women ...
• Danbury and Bethel crow about state test results
  posted on August 11, 2009 01:13:41 am
  Danbury and Bethel school officials jumped for joy hearing the results of the state math, reading and writing tests that showed the progress their third- through eighth-graders made.