Bridgeport News

Next stop Stamford for commuter Karen Roche of Fairfield, as her Metro-North train pulled out of the Fairfield Center station Wednesday morning.

As hospital officials lobby against a state aid formula they say will force them to make cuts, the state released a report saying 18 high-level hospital employees made more than $1 million a year in salary and fringe benefits in the 2012 fiscal year.

A veteran Bethel intermediate school principal newly hired as the new leader of the traumatized Sandy Hook Elementary School is a "true leader'' able to "make tough situations better,'' educational colleagues said Wednesday.

The city of Bridgeport 's reform-minded superintendent of schools has come under fire from the state's largest teacher union, which filed a complaint Monday that the district is illegally excluding teacher, parents and community leaders from decision-making. Bridgeport's reform-minded schools superintendent has come under fire from the state's ... (more)

Michael Ramos , 32, of Trumbull Avenue, was arrested Monday in connection with an armed robbery at a Payless shoe store at 51 Boston Ave.

Train commuters board a bus for South Norwalk at the Bridgeport train station in Bridgeport, Conn.

Emily Bazelon, author of bullying book Sticks and Stones, shows her television interview with talk show host Stephen Colbert during a talk at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn.

The works do seem to be "gummed up" on Capitol Hill. And President Barack Obama isn't the only one to say so.

James Repass of Boston, MA, president of National Corridors Initiative, a group dedicated to the modernization of our country's rail service, surveys the site of Friday's derailment and collision in Bridgeport, Conn.

Liz Squillace, of Bridgeport, owner of screenprinter Paradox, Inc. opened her business at the Arcade building in downtown Bridgeport, Conn.

While there may not be much money for Hartford to send in Bridgeport's direction, giving the city the muscle to attack some of its more glaring quality-of-life problems can be just as important as dollars.

Richie Rios, 30, of Vine Street in Bridgeport, was picked up by West Haven police and charged by Fairfield with conspiracy to commit third-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny.

Steve Gaspar, left, leads the Hollywood All-Stars into the Bijou Theatre in Bridgeport Friday night, May 24.

It wasn't exactly business as usual, but the second morning without through train service on Metro North Railroad went fairly smoothly.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line is scheduled to be back to normal by Wednesday morning, officials said Monday.

Delays on southbound I-95 stretch from Exit 27 in Bridgeport down to Darien. It's more of a stop and go situation with varying speeds and gaps between vehicles.

Jessica Gallo, 19, of Battery Park Drive, Bridgeport, was charged early Saturday morning with driving under the influence on Greens Farms Road.

Standing with his lawyer, John R. Gulash, left, Jermaine Richards is arraigned on murder charges in the death of ECSU student Alyssiah Marie Wiley at Superior Court in Bridgeport, Conn.

Metro-North Railroad officials tour the scene of the train derailment, Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Bridgeport, Conn.

Rwandan women who got financial advice from Fran Pastore at WBDC and opened ice cream shop in Rwanda.