Bridgeport News

A The Madison Police Department Adult Arrest Log for Jan. 25, 2012 to Jan. 31, 2012 included the following entries: Brittany A. Eckman, 23, 317 Valley Ave., Bridgeport, CT on Jan.

A Bridgeport man was arrested Friday and charged with swindling an octogenarian out of almost $15,000 in a home improvement scam.

The Coastal Chordsmen Barbershop Chorus will send quartets out to present Singing Valentines throughout Fairfield and New Haven counties from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ... The Stratford Professional Firefighters Burn Foundation and The Bridgeport Hospital Foundation will present a wine tasting to benefit the Connecticut Burn Center at Bridgeport Hospital ... (more)

Kids these days while away the hours playing _____ . If your response was Angry Birds, you're probably not alone, but where does that leave our real feathered friends? If children aren's exposed to nature, who will replenish the current ranks of conservationists? Who will protect birds and their habitats? This was the subject of a press conference ... (more)

John Wilkins, of Bridgeport, rides his bicycle after returning books to the Burroughs & Saden Library in downtown Bridgeport, Conn.

Philip Kuchma is leading a revitalization effort that is transforming a key area of downtown.

The League of Women Voters of the Bridgeport Area supports the creation of a new regional Water Pollution Control Authority through ratification by both the City of Bridgeport and the Town of Trumbull.

When the Working Families Party began in Connecticut, it was a one-man operation in a windowless, 10-by-10-foot "cell" in Bridgeport , its executive director, Jon Green, recalled.

A Westport man allegedly robbed a Trumbull couple at knifepoint in their driveway early Feb.

The president, Susan Herbst, was there. So was the interim athletic director, Paul Pendergast.

U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Greenwich, right, who represents the 4th Congressional District, is considered the heavy favorite to gain re-election in November now that GOP redistricting plan advanced by House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero, R-Norwalk, has failed.

Cardinal Edward Egan, left, and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, right, enter Harbor Yard Arena during the procession in the 50th anniversary of the Bridgeport Diocese celebration Sunday, Sept.

Bridgeport, Conn. - A Bridgeport man was taken to the hospital after being stabbed during an altercation at a local club.

Days after former New York Cardinal Edward Egan drew harsh criticism over comments he made over his handling of the priest sexual abuse scandal, the former Bridgeport bishop is continuing to defend his actions.

Every person is unique. Thus, it follows that no two people will respond the same exact way to the same illness, the same medication or even the same food.

He's expected to make his AHL debut Saturday night, but when Barry Goers plays for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, his situation won't be unique.

Carmelaime Labbe, 21, of Bridgeport, was arrested Tuesday night on Post Road East on two warrants for failure-to-appear charges.

It does not indicate convictions.] Police said, Latoya Bush, 26, of Bridgeport was arrested for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct Thursday Feb.

A woman who snatched a newborn baby from a New York City hospital in 1987, then raised the child as her own for more than two decades, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge Friday as the girl's true mother wept in the courtroom.Ann Pettway, 51, appeared resigned to a life behind bars as she entered the plea at a federal courthouse in Manhattan.

A city woman remains in critical condition Friday at Bridgeport Hospital, while a firefighter has improved to fair condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.