Bridgeport News

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 28--FAIRFIELD -- The Fairfield Senior Center has mailed surveys to 6,000 residents ages 55 to 70, and officials said the responses will be crucial in planning the center's future.

Nearly 60 residents were displaced this Memorial Day weekend after a series of seven fires ignited across the state, said a spokesman with the American Red Cross .

Terrell Britton , a McPadden Drive resident, was arrested Saturday morning by Stratford Police and charged with unlawful discharge of a weapon, reckless endangerment, altering a firearm, criminal mischief, breach of peace, two counts of risk of injury to a minor and carrying a pistol without a permit.

The Galapagos giant tortoises, with a combined weight that tips the scales at nearly 1,000 pounds, will spend the warm months at the Connecticut Beardsley Zoo.

US Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Flashman of Stratford, salutes as taps is played during the Memorial Day ceremony on the Green in Milford on Sunday, May 27, 2012.

Richard Iannucci, commander of the National Association of Naval Veterans, Port 5, Inc.

In the mid-'90s, Roland Brantley was a high-rolling drug dealer who'd already survived two gunshot wounds.

The Long Island Ducks used a four-run sixth inning to break a tie and defeat the Bridgeport Bluefish 8-3 at Bethpage Ballpark on Sunday.

Bridgeport's Cardinal Shehan Center on Main Street is scheduled to be awarded $2.8 million to renovate the Boys & Girls Club in the city's North End.

Police were called to St. Vincent 's Medical Center just before midnight Saturday after a West Haven man arrived at the hospital with a single gunshot wound to his face, police said.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A man was fatally stabbed while attempting to break up a fight between a man and woman on a Bridgeport sidewalk Sunday morning.

About 100 parents of Madison schoolchildren looked toward a longtime superintendent Saturday for answers on how to fix the achievement gap plaguing the district.

Sarah Buttress, 9, practices her cursive in a cursive enrichment class, in Trumbull, Conn.

College students spend less time studying now than they did about a decade ago, according to a new report released earlier this month.

A man in his 80s was hospitalized after he was struck by a sports-utility vehicle on Greenfield Street in front of Liana's Trattoria restaurant Friday night.

Bridgeport continues to challenge Waterbury as the home of the most embarrassing and bewildering politics in Connecticut.

Students in Milford were evacuated Friday after a threatening note was found in a middle school .

Bridgeport scored twice in the first on Prentice Redman's RBI double, which extended his on-base streak to 25 games, and an RBI single by Luis Lopez.

The three-way primary contest looming for the Democratic Party in the 23rd state Senate District , which is mostly in Bridgeport but partly in Stratford , might become more interesting thanks to the influence of a fourth political figure.

Bridgeport native Rudy Pistey built the living room of his Huntington Road home himself.