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- Three fishing buddies were lucky enough to catch sight of a 35-foot humpback whale in Long Island Sound, just off the coast of Pear Tree Point in Darien. With the sighting, NOAA Fisheries reminded boaters to keep a close eye out for feeding whales, and to stay 100 feet away.
- Harry Brant, son of a Greenwich billionaire, was busted on a drug charge after stiffing a cab driver from Stamford on a $27 fare.
- Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy took center stage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, telling the tale of his struggles to learn to read and write. State delegates split their votes between Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, 28 to 27 in Clinton's favor, but she also picked up all 16 of the state's superdelegates as she earned the nomination.
- A Greenwich voodoo priestess threatened to curse Stamford cops after they stopped her in a stolen car.
- Ridgefield police produced a creative video with The Prospector to show Pokémon Go players to search safely for the creatures.
- Becca Bryan of Bridgeport and her best friend, Betsy Arroyo of Derby, have opened Dixie Doughnuts by Whisk + Brush, an itty-bitty food truck decked out to serve up some serious doughnuts.
- Bestselling Westport author Jane Green gives plenty of local venues a mention in "Falling: A Love Story," her newest book.
- Firefighters responded to a home in Monroe after a lightning strike started a fire in the walls of the basement that extended to the first floor.
- A Bridgeport man was arrested after police said he stole a potentially dangerous radioactive device from a car.
- Chintz-N-Prints in Newtown is celebrating six decades in business as the locals' favorite fabric store.
- An unlicensed massage therapist arrested on sex assault charges earlier this month turned himself in to police again, after four additional women made similar complaints.
- Rafael Serrano of Bridgeport was taken into custody for a home invasion from January on Beckett Street in Danbury.
- Stamford couple Manny and Rosemarie Blosio remain dedicated to each other after celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.
- A Boy Scout Troop in New Fairfield as 10 of its members soared to earn the Eagle Scout award.
- A furious Stamford husband hit a man with a baseball bat and smashed out all the windows of the man's car in Greenwich in retaliation for alleged sexual advances made against his wife, police said.
- Four teens were charged with stealing cars in Darien for a gang that sells them to drug dealers after a police chase in Hartford.
- Thousands of people got together at Short Beach in Stratford for the seventh annual Blues on the Beach.
- A man walking on Jennings Beach was confronted by an elderly, knife-carrying man known to lifeguards and beachgoers as an argumentative troublemaker, police said.
- A mother is facing a criminal charge after leaving her 7-month-old baby alone inside a car in a grocery store parking lot in Fairfield.
- A 31-year-old Norwalk man charged with child abuse had lured a woman from California, then beat and starved her 2-year-old daughter, police said.
- Wilton's Cadenza Innovation, a provider of energy storage solutions based on disruptive architectures for lithium-ion battery packs, announced more than $5 million in growth capital.
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