- A group of Darien teens shot a 43-year-old Woodway Road woman in the face with an airsoft gun but she declined to press charges, police said.
- Stephanie Zangrillo, 55, was charged with stealing potted plants from Stop & Shop after she was spotted loading up her trunk, police said.
- Darien High School was named as one of Connecticut’s “Fab Five” preseason football teams by Max Preps.
- A Stamford woman was sentenced to six months in prison for killing two men on the side of I-95 in Darien while she was driving drunk. The victims' families were outraged by the sentence.
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Darien’s Alex Ostberg is ranked fourth in the nation among high school runners, according to a preseason ranking by MileSplit.com. Darien's cross country team opens its season at Harding High School in Bridgeport Sept. 9.
- Pop singer Ashlee Simpson and actor Evan Ross got married, reciting their vows in a star-studded ceremony at the Greenwich home of the groom's mother, Diana Ross.
- Lindsey Rogers-Seitz of Ridgefield, whose son died after he was forgotten in a hot car in July, is pushing for car safety regulations and laws to prevent such deaths in the future.
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