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Bridgeport Selected as Environmental Justice Showcase Community
The City of Bridgeport, Conn. was selected by EPA as one of 10 communities nationwide to highlight ways to address environmental justice challenges.
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Warrant details former Gunnery dean's sex with students
To some, Robert Reinhardt, the former dean of students at the Gunnery, was an openly gay man who befriended and counseled students uncertain about their own sexuality.
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Bridgeport cop charged in domestic dispute
A city police officer has been arrested for the second time this year, the most recent incident an alleged domestic dispute with a woman in his West Haven home earlier this month.
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Bridgeport cop retires after testing positive for drugs twice
About four months after acting Police Chief Joseph Gaudett revealed that officers were being randomly screened for illegal drug use, one officer has failed the test.
One Killed, Four Injured In I-95 Crash
A man was killed and four people were injured early Saturday on I-95 south when a car slammed head-on into a car that had just been in a minor accident and was facing the wrong way in a travel lane, state police said.
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Foreclosure, unemployment rates soar
Foreclosures and seriously delinquent home loans in Connecticut logged another grim milestone in the third quarter, soaring a full percentage point to 7 percent of all loans -- the largest quarterly increase in nearly 30 years, according to a report Thursday.
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14 busted for drugs outside 'Dead' tribute concert
Undercover cops smoked out a series of illegal sales Thursday night outside the Grateful Dead tribute concert performed at The Klein, the city-owned auditorium on Fairfield Avenue, police said.
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Drug dealer's plea requires $10,000 UI payment
The prison time might be easier to handle than the $10,000 UI bill an admitted Bridgeport drug dealer must pay the utility for stealing electricity to help cultivate his marijuana crop.
Beaten baby shows signs of improvement
A week after 1-year-old Alisha Carlton 's baby sitter allegedly bashed the little girl's head against the floor because the baby's cries distracted the woman from watching television, the battered child is showing signs of improvement at Yale- New Haven Hospital 's intensive-care unit.
Conn. mourns Bridgeport fire victims
Hundreds of people have turned out to mourn a Bridgeport mother and her three children killed last week in a fire at a public housing complex.
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Cops: Drugs, guns found in Bridgeport home with small children
After an "extensive" probe into marijuana sales in Stratford and Bridgeport, State Police said they seized a large amount of marijuana, guns, ammunition and ecstasy pills from a Rose Street home where four small children had been left alone.
Brazilian restaurant OK'd in Bridgeport
The former owner of the Pantanal Restaurant on Frank Street is planning to open a new Brazilian steakhouse a few blocks away.
Bridgeport's #2 cop worked her way up from the beat
Lynn Kerwin may be too modest for her own good. When Kerwin joined the Police Department in 1985 there was a big recruitment drive to bring more women onto the city's police force, and if Kerwin had allowed herself to be fast-tracked, she might have been chief already.
EPA Funds Bridgeport as Environmental Justice Community on WNPR Environmental Reporting Initiative
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced funding to address the issue of environmental justice in communities across the country, including Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Donate To Bridgeport Fire Victims
A fund has been established to help defray the costs of a fatal fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her three children in Bridgeport.
Stratford Man Sentenced To 13 Years For Shooting At Officers In 2007 Police Raid
After tearful pleas for leniency by his family, a truck driver and part-time gas station attendant was sentenced to 13 years in prison Tuesday for firing twice on members of a police task force who raided his Bridgeport station in an attempt to serve a search warrant two years ago.
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Tree clearing protested for Fairfield project
When Carrie O'Leary came home from work Monday, a lot of trees that stood behind her backyard were gone.
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Bridgeport teacher faces drunk-driving, gun charges
A city school teacher and member of a prominent Fairfield family was arrested on drunken-driving and gun charges Monday night after leading police on a short chase through the city's East Side.