Greenwich

A Greenwich middle school is safe to reopen on Monday after cracks were found following an earthquake in New Jersey last week. Students at Central Middle School were evacuated around 10:23 a.m. on Friday after the magnitude 4.8 earthquake. The middle school students were moved to Greenwich High School and classes continued as normal. District officials said the middle school…

Students in a Greenwich middle school had to be relocated after cracks developed following a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey. Central Middle School was evacuated after the earthquake, which happened around 10:23 a.m. on Friday. School officials said the school was evacuated out of an abundance of caution. The Greenwich Fire Marshal has ordered the closure of the middle…

Serious injuries have been reported in a multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 North in Greenwich on Saturday morning. Troopers responded to I-95 North near exit 5 around 5:30 a.m. State Dept. of Transportation officials said the crash involved multiple vehicles. According to state police, serious injuries were reported. It’s unclear exactly how many people were injured. The accident reconstruction team…

Greenwich Police have charged a woman from New York with manslaughter in connection with the overdose death of a man in Connecticut. Police arrested Maria Noesi on Wednesday in New York. They say she provided fentanyl to a 40-year-old man who overdosed back in November in Greenwich. Noesi has also been charged with selling narcotics and reckless endangerment. She is…

State police have arrested a driver who is accused of driving more than 100 miles per hour in a 55-mile per hour on Interstate 95 South in Greenwich while impaired. State police said they stopped a 38-year-old Stamford man near exit 3 around 1:13 a.m. Wednesday after a state trooper who was finishing up with a traffic stop saw a…

A man from Greenwich has been arrested and is facing voyeurism and child pornography charges. The police department took Deane Flood Jr., 53, into custody after obtaining a warrant for his arrest on Wednesday. The Greenwich Police Department Special Victims Section received a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children cyber tip line indicating that child pornography…

A 78-year-old New York woman has life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a driver in Greenwich on Monday morning. Police said the woman, a Flushing, New York resident, was on Railroad Avenue, in the area of Field Point Road, around 8:45 a.m. Monday when she was hit by a Range Rover driven by a 35-year-old Stamford resident. The driver…

Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, whose murder conviction in the 1970s killing of a teenager in Connecticut was overturned, is suing the lead police investigator in the case and the town of Greenwich for alleged malicious prosecution, civil rights violations and other claimed wrongdoing. Skakel, 63, a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel Kennedy, was found guilty in 2002 of the 1975…

State police stopped a driver who they said was going 125 miles per hour on Interstate 95 in Greenwich early Friday morning. A trooper who was monitoring traffic on I-95 North, near exit 4 in Greenwich, saw an erratic driver in a BWM at 12:17 a.m. and stopped her after determining she was going 125 miles per hour in a…

Greenwich police are asking anyone who was approached, harassed or inappropriately touched while walking or running in town over the past year to report it. They are asking anyone who this happened to to call the tip line at (203) 622-3333 or email TIPS@greenwichct.org for a callback. Police said they have not received reports of incidents, but a vague...

Residents of a Connecticut town have found recruitment flyers in their driveways for a white supremacist group, according to police.

A motorcyclist has life-threatening injuries after crashing into a car head-on, state police said. The crash happened in the intersection of Round Hill Road and Close Road in Greenwich. The motorcyclist was headed south when they lost control, crossed the double yellow lines and crashed into a car going in the opposite direction, officials said. According to troopers, the car…

Police have arrested a man who is accused of stealing about $175,000 worth of jewelry from a store in Greenwich over the weekend. According to investigators, 19-year-old Edgardo Bautista-Gallardo, of California, entered the store on Greenwich Avenue around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday and requested to see jewelry from the store’s associates. After the jewelry was shown, police said Bautista-Gallardo, who…

Actress Sharon Stone might be best known for her work on the screen — movie and TV – but her work on canvas is on display at an art exhibition in Greenwich. This is the first time her artwork is being exhibited outside of Los Angeles. “Sharon Stone: Welcome To My Garden” is at the C. Parker  Gallery in Greenwich…

Call Connecticut “Flavorstate U.S.A.” “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” will be featuring a local restaurant on Friday for the second week in a row. Guy Fieri and his team from the Food Network show visited Grigg Street Pizza in Greenwich for the “East, South, West” episode. The show description, says, “In Greenwich, Conn., a pizza joint is putting out real...

A man who is accused of breaking into a Greenwich home with multiple adults and children inside of it over the weekend has been arrested. Officers were called to the intersection of Mill Street and Henry Street around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday after getting a report of a man, later identified as 51-year-old Edwin Gutierrez-Vasco, stabbing at and damaging vehicles…

A teenager who was in a stolen vehicle was arrested in Greenwich over the weekend and the three other occupants of the vehicle fled before police could apprehend them. Police in Rye Brook, New York, pursued a stolen vehicle into Greenwich around 2:20 a.m. on Sunday. The vehicle was reported to have been recently stolen out of Milford with a…

Greenwich police have arrested a New Jersey man for an alleged kidnapping that happened across state lanes. The police department said 39-year-old Daniel Patrick Twomey was taken into custody on Thursday after engaging officers in pursuit. Greenwich police said they found Twomey’s vehicle and followed him. They lost sight of him but eventually located the car parked at the...