Bridgeport official: Two sent to hospital with gunshot wounds
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BRIDGEPORT Two people were sent to a hospital “with non-life threatening gunshot wounds” Sunday, according to an official.
Those individuals were wounded “to the arm and the other to the face,” emergency management director Scott Appleby said. Following early morning report from the city’s ShotSpotter system, officials responded and saw the victims on Sheridan Street, according to Appleby.
Officials request those with information to contact Detective Santora at 203-581-5201 or the Bridgeport Police Tips Line at 203-576-TIPS.
A man has been caught driving a scissor lift through the streets of Cairns two nights in a row, police say.
The 31-year-old allegedly stole the picker from a construction site on The Esplanade before driving it along Shields Street to the intersection of Sheridan Street in the early hours of yesterday where he was taking into custody, charged and released on bail.
This morning police say they caught the same man driving a different scissor lift along Abbott Street. Police say it was stolen from a construction site on Shields Street.
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Competition to offer high-speed service is ramping up as various projects develop Posted
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ELY – As a variety of high-speed fiber projects get off the ground here, a long-time cable provider recently announced they want to join the party as competition increases.
Existing cable and internet customers who are frustrated with all-too-common service disruptions recently learned that Midco activated more than 200 additional miles of fiber to create a northern Minnesota fiber ring that adds diverse network paths for the Ely area.
The expansion and investment by the cable provider is an effort to reduce or eliminate service disruptions caused by fiber cuts and other sources of internet and business connections. Their recent investment announcement also appears to give the cable provider a bigger piece of the broadband pie in the immediate Ely area.
Pa. woman killed after meeting a man about an online purchase: police
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Police say a Geistown man admitted to stabbing a local woman to death inside his apartment, blaming an argument over the price of a refrigerator for sparking the clash.
Denise Williams, 54, of Hornerstown, was stabbed multiple times with a knife despite efforts to protect herself from the attack after agreeing on social media to buy the fridge at his apartment, County Coroner Jeff Lees said.
“She put up one heck of a fight to defend herself,” Lees said. “But this was a violent death she sustained.”
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