Bridgeport News

The City of Bridgeport, Conn. was selected by EPA as one of 10 communities nationwide to highlight ways to address environmental justice challenges.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two teenagers from Shelton and Stratford were killed in a car crash around 11 p.m. Friday near Constitution Boulevard South and the Route 8 northbound exit 13 ramp, police said.

A Stratford man who saw his conviction for attempted murder of a federal officer thrown out by a federal judge, but then re-instated by a federal appeals court, will now be going to prison for 13 years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The former owner of the Pantanal Restaurant on Frank Street is planning to open a new Brazilian steakhouse a few blocks away.

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.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced funding to address the issue of environmental justice in communities across the country, including Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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.

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.

When Carrie O'Leary came home from work Monday, a lot of trees that stood behind her backyard were gone.

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.