Greenwich police said a local man, who wanted a day off from work, called 911 claiming he had been robbed and punched in the face by a black man.

Twenty-five year old Juan Cruz told police the assault took place at the Glenville Stop & Shop supermarket around 8:00 a.m. Monday.

After questioning Cruz, of 21 Melrose Avenue, Apt 3, for about an hour, police concluded that he had made up the story.

Police said Cruz’s bruised nose came from a fall he suffered Sunday night while drinking.

Cruz and his girlfriend, Adriana Miranda, who supported his claims, were arrested and charged with second-degree falsely reporting an incident, interfering with an officer and misuse of the 911 system.

Police said Cruz wanted to stay home to nurse his hangover but for unknown reasons he felt he couldn’t call in sick.

There are reports that Greenwich resident, Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be out of a job soon.

Us Weekly is reporting that the youngest co-host on The View was recently told by ABC executives, including show creator Barbara Walters, that they are not renewing her contract after the summer.

Sources close to the show told the magazine that market research revealed that 35-year-old Elisabeth is not popular with TV audiences mostly because of her right wing political views.

Elisabeth, who rose to fame as a contestant on the reality show “Survivor”, joined the cast of the daytime talk show in November 2003.

With her political views, it is likely that the FOX network will offer Elisabeth a job.

Also leaving the show after this season is original co-host Joy Behar.

Unlike Elisabeth, it was Joy’s decision not to return to the show.

The non-profit organization that puts together Greenwich Town Party announced today that five-time Grammy Award winner James Taylor will headline the waterfront party this year.

Also joining Taylor at the Roger Sherman Baldwin Park on May 25, are the Blues Travelers;  The Harlem Gospel Choir; the New Orleans jazz band Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue; hip-hop/hop band Michael Franti & Spearhead and Greenwich own Caroline Jones, the daughter of hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones.

Admission to the event is $50, $10 more than last year.

Last year’s event featured Paul Simon.

Tickets for this year’s event will be on sale starting on April 8.  To purchase tickets go to www.greenwichtownparty.com

Former Greenwich Time reporter Teri Buhl, who is known for harassing many hedge fund managers on her blog, was found guilty of harassing the teenage daughter of  an ex-boyfriend.

Forty-year old Buhl was arrested in New Canaan in November 2010 after it was discovered that she had posted intimate information about her then-boyfriend’s 17-year-old daughter on Facebook, information which authorities said was taken from the teenager’s private diary.

According to the arrest report, Buhl created a Facebook account under the name “Tasha Moore” and then posted photographs and private entries about the then New Canaan High School student on the internet.

The teenager said the diary was hidden in the back of her dresser drawer.

Buhl was arrested after police discovered that the entries were made from an IP address belonging to her.  She later claimed that she was using the unauthorized information for an investigative piece she was working on about teenage drinking parties in New Canaan.

Buhl, who was charged with second-degree harassment, second-degree breach of peace and interfering with police investigation, was found guilty of second-degree harassment and second-degree breach of peace at state Superior Court in Norwalk on Friday.

She faces up to nine months in prison and a fine of $1,500 when she is sentenced.

OK all you single ladies in Greenwich get ready because one of the sexiest men alive is coming to town.

Prince Harry is coming to U.S. between May 9 and May 13 to promote his many charities and while on this side of the Atlantic he will visit Greenwich, where he will play in a fundraising polo tournament on behalf of Sentebale, the organization he personally set up to help Aids orphans in the African Kingdom of Lesotho.

Greenwich is not the only stop in the U.S for the 28-year-old hunk; he will also visit Washington D.C, Denver, Colorado Springs, New York and New Jersey.

Prince Harry last came to the U.S in May 2012.

It took Greenwich resident Regis Philbin three years to sell his 6,000 sq-foot home at 38 Meeting House Road, now its new owner, Raymond and Yanina LaChance, want to tear it down and replace it with a 13,000 plus sq-foot mansion.

Regis’ wife, Joy, spent millions of dollars to renovate the French Normandy home they purchased from sports reporter Warner Wolf in 1992 for $2.5 million, but it sat on the market for years, mostly because of an unfinished Mediterranean mansion and a dilapidated home on the street, plus, a small portion of the land is in Stamford.

While their country home sat on the market, the former co-host of “Live! with Regis and Kelly” bought a $10 million mansion on Stanwich Road.

The LaChances’ submitted plans to Planning and Zoning to build a  13,505 sq-foot mansion with seven bedrooms, a movie theater, wine room and exercise room on the six acres.  They are however keeping the swimming pool and tennis court.

A former Greenwich High School student was killed while rock climbing in Africa over the weekend.

University of Pennsylvania student Oliver Pacchiana, who was studying abroad this semester in South Africa, died when he fell during a rock-climbing expedition in Nambia.

Twenty-year-old Pacchiana, who was enrolled in a master’s program in mechanical engineering at his school, was in Nambia on his spring break when the accident happened.

Funeral service will be held for Pacchiana at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Paul Church at 84 Sherwood Avenue in Greenwich. A reception will follow at the Seton Scout Reservation at 363 Riversville Road.

Burial is private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Camping Scholarship Fund of Troop 35 of the Greenwich Council of the Boy Scouts of America, c/o Mary Machnicki, 10 Hickory Drive, Greenwich, CT 06831

A Greenwich man is accused of defrauding his mother-in-law of over $300,000 during a two-year period.

Authorities said Anthony Green, of 181 Strickland Road, offered to help his mother-in-law with her finances after her husband passed away in 2010, but instead of helping her, he helped himself to $315,000 of her money.

It is alleged that 36-year-old Green, who owns T. Green Carting in Cos Cob, wrote checks from his mother-in-law’s line of credit to either his wife or his business.

Green, who was charged with first-degree larceny and six counts of second-degree forgery, was released from custody after posting $2,500 bond.

He is due back in state Superior Court in Stamford on April 12.

Court records show T. Green Carting filed Chapter 11 on April 15, 2012.

A 19-year-old Greenwich High School boy was arrested after he threatened to kill fellow students.

GHS was placed on lockdown Thursday after Gianfranco Romero, of 168 North Water Street, told classmates he had a gun in his backpack and was planning to shoot students outside of school.

The teenager was quickly apprehended.

No one was harm during the lockdown and police said no weapons were recovered.

Romero, who was arrested last November for third-degree assault and disorderly conduct stemming from a domestic dispute, is schedule to appear in state Superior Court on April 19.

Guess who!

Name the Greenwich resident who is divorcing his second wife and he is doing so, per se, and he just requested that his legal fees be paid by his estranged wife. The problem is, he doesn’t have any legal bills since he is representing himself.  In addition, he is not a practicing lawyer and doesn’t have a law degree.

The nerve of some people……..JUST GET A JOB DUDE!!!

How crazy is this, the ex-wife f Law & Order producer Dick Wolf, has filed a lawsuit against her former financial managers because she was dumb enough to renovate a Greenwich home without permission from the homeowner.

After losing a lawsuit that the homeowner, Gary Ryder, filed against her for the illegal work, Christine is now trying to recuperate some of that money by suing her money manager.

In January 2005, Christine rented Gary’s six bedroom rundown mansion located at 345 Round Hill Road for $14,000 a month.

Without Gary’s permission, Christine went ahead and renovated the home.  What Christine did not know was Gary is the kind of person who would sue you just because you looked at him the wrong way.

In court documents Christine said she changed the existing countertops because they were unsanitary, painted the kitchen cabinets and walls so that they would match her furnishing and linens.  She said she changed the bathtubs, toilets and light fixtures, which I believe she did because Gary lived their with all those boys.

Gary sued Christine for doing unauthorized work to his home, and he won a $188,000 judgement against her, in addition getting his legal fees paid, which is over $300,000

Now, Christine is suing Anchin, Block & Anchin for $200,000 claiming that they gave her “disastrous” advice.

If Wolf had done her homework prior to giving Gary all that money she would have realized that the home had major problems, including water damage that went unnoticed for a very long time.

Meanwhile, Gary filed a lawsuit against Washington Mutual Bank for “breach of a loan contract and Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act,” and the bank filed a countersuit against Gary seeking to foreclose on the Round Hill home.

Now I know why Dick left Christine, she is just dumb.  What kind of idiot would renovate a RENTED property to the degree in which she did without getting the homeowner’s permission?

A Greenwich public school teacher was arrested last week for threatening another teacher.

Authorities said Stacey Goodnow, a sixth-grade social studies teacher at Western Middle School was arrested on Friday and charged with one count of disorderly after she allegedly called another teacher and threatened to “shoot up” her school.

As of press time, forty-six year old Goodnow, of 12 Melrose Ave. in Norwalk, was still being held on $100,000 bond; however, her attorney, Mark Sherman, is scheduled to appear in court on Norwalk Superior Court on Monday, where he plans to argue for a lower bond.

It is believed the threats were related to a March 2010 incident, where an intoxicated Goodnow tried to force her way into her ex-boyfriend’s apartment; however, it’s not immediately clear what the teach said to Goodnow causing her to make the threats.

The teacher reported the threats to Norwalk Police Department around 1:00 p.m. Thursday and she was arrested on Friday.

Before moving to Western Middle School, Goodnow was a teacher at Easter Middle School.

Update: 6/18/13      

Both Bill and Dana Evans were able to keep their nasty May 4th fight out of the police blotter section of the local newspapers, but their lawyers were unable to get a closed courtroom for their arraignments.

The couple was arraigned in Stamford Superior Court earlier today in two separate hearings, and based of the shocking details that were released, it sounds like both parties were at fault.

Dana, who saw the judge first, claims her husband of 19 years punched her in the face knocking her to the floor.

Bill, on the other hand, told the judge Dana “grabbed the waistband of his underwear and reached for his scrotum with her free hand, subsequently scratching it…which resulted in bleeding.”

The meteorologist said when Dana was finished scratching his private area; she grabbed a wood hanger and began hitting him across the butt until the hanger broke.

All this happened while their three school age children were at home.

Apparently the fight started over Bill’s car keys.

Original story

WABC Channel 7 meteorologist Bill Evans was arrested over a domestic incident involving his wife of 19 years.

Details surrounding the May 4^th dispute between Bill and his wife, Dana, who was also arrested, have not been made public, but his lawyer released a statement saying in part, “Bill and Dana are presently going through a difficult divorce.  We expect that Bill will be exonerated and this case will be quickly forgotten.”

Dana’s attorney, Mark Sherman, also issued a statement saying the charges against his client will be dropped in due time.

A spokesperson for WABC released a statement saying “we are reviewing the situation and have no further comment at this time.”

The Greenwich resident has been with WABC-TV since December 1989.  He and Dana have four children.

Evans is scheduled to appear in Stamford Superior Court on Tuesday.

A Weston man was killed earlier today when a tractor trailer veered off I-95 while he was repairing a tire on another 18-wheeler.

Authorities said Henry Wagmeister, the owner of Truck Tire Sales & Service in Norwalk, was repairing a tire on the truck near Exit 3 on I-95 in Greenwich around 2:45 a.m., when another trailer, driven by Landy Narcisse-Parra, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, veered off the highway and collided with his truck, which was in the breakdown lane.

The impact of the two heavy vehicles forced Wagmeister’s service truck into him and the truck he was repairing.

Fifty-seven year old Wagmeister was pronounced dead at the scene.

Narcisse-Parra and the driver of the truck that was being repaired were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The accident is still being investigated.

Well what do you know, former Greenwich resident Evan Ross, also known as Diana Ross’ baby boy, is dating singer Ashlee Simpson.

The couple was spotted at Teddy’s nightclub in Hollywood Monday night.

We haven’t seen Evan since 2010 when he appeared on the CW series “90210″, but damn, he looks really good!!!!

Greenwich police are asking the public for help finding a teenage boy who was last seen over the weekend.

Jeremy O’Connell, who has a history of running away from home, was last seen on June 29.

Seventeen-year-old O’Connell, who was wearing a white T-shirt and short when he went missing, is about 5’8” and 180lbs.

Back in December 2012 O’Connell disappeared for four days with some friends.

Anyone with knowledge of O’Connell’s whereabouts is asked to call Greenwich’s Special Victims Section at 203-622-8030 or 203-622-8007.

What’s the real story behind Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s abrupt exit from The View?

Well according to sources, ABC told her a while ago that they weren’t renewing her contract when it expires, and since then, she had been in meeting with FOX to join their network.

This week, she signed with FOX to be a co-host on FOX & FRIENDS and Barbara Walters told her to make today her last day.

Obviously her teary goodbye today was like the Star Jones’ exit.  The “I’m going to miss you” speech is nothing but BS.

Elisabeth doesn’t join the FOX team until September, so I guess we will see a lot of her around town.

Dana Jesse Marella, a Greenwich resident who had battled a rare degenerative disease singe the age of 8, passed away last Friday, 11 days before what would have been her 20^th birthday.

Dana Marella was diagnosed with Niemann-Pick type C disease, a genetic disorder in which harmful quantities of cholesterol and other fatty substances accumulate in the cells of the spleen, liver, lungs, bone marrow and the brain.

When Dana was first diagnosed with her illness, her parents, Philip And Andrea, were told that their daughter would not live pass her early teens.  The Marella’s were determine to fight the deadly disease and in 2002 they started a non-profit organization, Dana’s Angels Research Trust (DART), to fund medical research aimed at finding a cure.

At age 11, Dana received her first dose of an experimental drug, which her mother said helped her by slowing down the progression of the disease, but because she received the medication three years after she was diagnosed, the damage had already been done.

Andrew, one  of the  Marella’s three other children, was diagnosed with the same disease, which according to DART’s website there are only about 500 diagnosed cases worldwide, two years after they founded their non-profit organization.

Andrew received his first treatment when he was five, and today at 13, although he has speech and comprehension issues, he is able to communicate and ride his bike.

Dana, who was the second of the Marella’s four children, leaves behind two other siblings, Julia Grace and Philip Daniel, who do not suffer from the illness, her grandmother Lucinda Marella and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

Dana Marella was buried on Tuesday July 16.

To find out more about Niemann-Pick C and DART go to www.DanasAngels.org

A 19-year-old Greenwich man died in a single vehicle accident early Saturday morning.

Vinny Scorese was driving south on Riversville Road around 1:30 a.m. Saturday when he lost control of his vehicle causing it to slam into a stone wall.

Scorese, who was a 2012 graduate of Greenwich High School and a member of the school’s hockey team, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The accident is still being investigated.

An 18-year-old Greenwich woman is accused of destroying valuable artwork.

Police were called to 12 Old Post Road, unit 6, around 2:00 p.m. Saturday where they were told a woman was in need of medical assistance.

According to the police report, when the officers arrived they found the living “covered in trash” and “valuable frames of painting had been defaced.”

After interviewing several people in the home, Erika D. Glenn was arrested and charged with first-degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.

The police report did not say whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the incident.

Glenn, who lives at the home, was released on $500 bond.  She is scheduled to appear in court on August 13.