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Karen Tensa

Managing Editor, Connecticut

ktensa@dailyvoice.com

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Karen has lived and worked in Connecticut for more than two decades. Her professional experience includes more than a decade of work as the news editor at The Advocate in Stamford and reporting and editing stints on the staff of The Hartford Courant, among others. She is dedicated to writing local news, enjoying winter sports and reading nonfiction books.

Karen was formerly a managing editor at Daily Voice.

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Police & Fire

Traffic Stop Leads To Arrest Of Bridgeport Man On Gun Charge BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A convicted felon from Bridgeport was arrested after he was found with a gun in his possession during a traffic stop in Milford, police said. Just before 7 p.m. Sunday, Milford officers stopped his vehicle at the Exit 34 entrance ramp to I-95 due to an equipment violation, police said. An investigation led to the arrest of Dupree Smalls, 29, of Capital Avenue in Bridgeport, police said. Smalls is not legally allowed to be in possession of a handgun because he is a convicted felon and because there is active order of protection against him, police said. Smalls was c…

11/30/2017

News

Washington Post Details Stamford Woman's Efforts To Infiltrate Its Staff STAMFORD, Conn. — The Washington Post has published more information about the 41-year-old Stamford woman who tried and failed to feed its reporters a fake story about embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore. Jaime Phillips, an operative with Project Veritas, has been trying since July to form alliances with Washington Post reporters as part of a larger effort to deceive them, according to a story at the WaPo website. Project Veritas is a Westchester-based group that targets the media and left-leaning groups through undercover operations to expose what it calls bias. Phillips joined many n…

by Daily Voice

11/30/2017

Sports

Maffei Steps Down As Trumbull High Football Coach After Tough Season TRUMBULL, Conn. — After 19 seasons, Bob Maffei has resigned as the head football coach at Trumbull High School, according to the Connecticut Post. Maffei, 62, said it was a mutual decision after his team's poor performance on the field with a record of 3-7 and players' misbehavior off the field, with a half-dozen suspensions and the arrest of four players who were expelled, the Post said. At the start of his career, he coached at both Fairfield Warde and Fairfield Prep. Maffei then became an assistant at Trumbull, working under legendary coach Jerry McDougall for 16 years. Maffei was prom…

by Daily Voice

11/30/2017

Police & Fire

Downed Power Lines Spark Brush Fire In Redding REDDING, Conn. — The Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department extinguished a brush fire that was sparked by a downed electrical wire on Wednesday afternoon in Redding, according to a Facebook post. The initial call was for a "fire in the woods" on Redding Road in Redding, according to the post from the Georgetown Volunteer Fire Department. Upon arrival, firefighters found downed live wires in the front yard of a residence. "We extinguished part of the brush fire it caused and waited for Eversource to secure the downed power line," the Facebook post said. "Thank you…

by Daily Voice

11/30/2017

Police & Fire

Stuff Stolen From Your Car? Check Out Recovered Items With Newtown Police NEWTOWN, Conn. — Newtown police arrested two juveniles in a crime spree involving the theft of cars and items from cars. And now the police is trying to return that property to the rightful owners. Items were taken from vehicles on the following roads, Newtown police said: Baldwin Road, Juniper Road, Oak Ridge Road, Edmond Road, Sugar Street, Sleepy Hollow Road, Lincoln Road, Oakview Road, Turkey Hill Road, Elm Drive, Adams Hill Road, Black Walnut Drive, Mile Hill Road, and Nearbrook Drive. Other areas of town may also have been seen thefts of items from motor vehicles from Nov. 10 thro…

by Daily Voice

11/30/2017

Sports

Connecticut Boat Club Rowers Bring Home Gold, Silver From San Diego Regatta NORWALK, Conn. – Connecticut Boat Club won gold at the San Diego Fall Classic Regatta, which was held on Mission Bay in San Diego and hosted by the historic San Diego Rowing Club. Connecticut Boat Club was the only East Coast team racing at the event. “This was a great opportunity to race teams from California, Washington, Oregon and Arizona, who we don’t typically see until Nationals in June," said Coach Liz Trond. "Winning the coxed 4 race, competing against a very fast boat from San Diego (second at Head of the Charles), was the perfect way to cap off our fall racing season and…

by Daily Voice

11/30/2017

Police & Fire

Pump & Roll: Long Hill Firefighters Douse Long Pile Of Burning Leaves TRUMBULL, Conn. — Firefighters from Long Hill Volunteer Fire Co. were called in to douse a pile of burning leaves, according to the department's Facebook page. E-202 used its pump and roll capabilities to extinguish the long piles of leaves that were on fire on Fairview Avenue early Wednesday afternoon.

by Daily Voice

11/29/2017

Police & Fire

Greenwich Wastewater Manager Charged With Illegally Selling Scrap Metal GREENWICH, Conn. — A 57-year-old town of Greenwich employee was arrested on charges of illegally selling town-owned scrap metal and tampering with a witness to cover it up, according to Patch.com. Dwayne Lockwood, of Greenwich, works as a process control manager at the town's Grass Island Waste Water Treatment Plant, Patch.com said. He was arrested Wednesday on a warrant charging him with first-degree larceny and tampering with a witness, Patch.com said. A police investigation determined that Lockwood profited personally from the sale of town-owned scrap metal and that he attempted to infl…

by Daily Voice

11/29/2017

Police & Fire

Car Rolls Over, Goes Down Embankment On I-84 In Danbury UPDATED: DANBURY, Conn. — A car crash caused big traffic delays between Exits 7 and 8 on eastbound I-84 in Danbury on Wednesday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation. The accident involved a car rolling over the center median and going down an embankment, according to Connecticut State Police. The crash scene was deep in brush off the highway, near the river. The crash was reported at about 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, and the lane was closed with traffic tie-ups in the area for several hours, DOT said. Only minor injuries were reported in the one-car crash, state police sa…

11/29/2017

News

Fight Breaks Out At 'It's OK To Be White' Speech At UConn; Speaker Arrested This story has been updated: STORRS, Conn. — An ultra-conservative commentator was arrested and charged with breach of peace after a fight broke out at his speech — titled "It's OK To Be White" — at the University of Connecticut in Storrs on Tuesday night, according to a UConn spokeswoman. The speech by Lucian Wintrich, the White House correspondent for The Gateway Pundit website, was sponsored by the UConn College Republicans. On its Facebook page, the student group said that Wintrich would “discuss identity politics, liberal victimhood, anti-conservative bias and other hot-but…

by Daily Voice

11/29/2017

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