Bridgeport News

A smoky mattress blaze in a basement apartment on Howard Avenue left five people homeless early Sunday morning, according to fire officials.

Acting Police Chief Joseph Gaudett Jr. told the six police officers sworn in to higher ranks on Wednesday that they should consider themselves "mini-chiefs" in their areas of influence.

The state Department of Transportation says that it will close Fairfield Avenue at night beginning July 13.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport on Thursday dropped its federal civil-rights lawsuit against the Office of State Ethics, a day after the agency's enforcement officer said he would not pursue an inquiry into a March 11 rally at the Capitol.

Thirteen Connecticut post offices are on a list released by the U.S. Postal Service for possible shutdown or consolidation.

Tuesday 30 Jun Bridgeport Bluefish Open Series with Camden Riversharks with 18-9 Drubbing Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 12:41PM MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com- The Bridgeport Bluefish defeated the Camden Riversharks in the opener of a three-game series on Monday 18-9 at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard.

Connecticut's attorney general said Tuesday that the state's lobbying laws cannot be used to require the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport to register as a lobbyist to hold rallies and use its Web site to oppose legislation.

A city man has been charged with shooting another man who interceded in a fight between two women.

Ann Marie Rino, apparently struggling with illness, shot her 8-year-old daughter, Gabriella, in the head and chest before turning the gun on herself in their Burnsford Avenue home, according to results of Tuesday's autopsies and police sources.

To Manifested Glory Ministries of Bridgeport, Conn.: Perhaps you wouldn't mind telling me what a "homosexual demon" looks like.

Vincent Laczkoski, an eighth-grade social studies teacher at Blackham School, has been placed on a paid administrative leave, school officials confirmed.

A 25-year-old Dayton Road man whom police watched allegedly deal drugs for hours was arrested late Friday after he was found to have active arrest warrants, including criminal possession of a firearm.

U.S. Catholic bishops have revised a document on Catholic-Jewish relations to affirm that the church must share its belief that salvation is through Christ.

Saying it is a matter of free speech, the ACLU has filed a brief in support of the Diocese of Bridgeport's battle against a state agency seeking to require the church to register as a lobbyist.

The City Council on Monday voted to abolish the Bridgeport Port Authority, acting hours after the port authority suspended its executive director in a last-minute bid to save the agency.

More than six months after Bridgeport's first homicide of the year, a city man has been charged with murder.

The video shows the 16-year-old boy lying on the floor, his body convulsing, as elders of a small Connecticut church cast a "homosexual demon" from his body.

A city man has been charged with the New Year's Day murder of another city man. Dexter Murray, 24, of Stoneridge Road, was taken into custody without incident at Golden Hill Street Superior Courthouse.

Bridgeport police are investigating the fatal shooting deaths in Bridgeport of a mother and her daughter as a murder-suicide.        Police were called to a home on Burnsford Avenue around 3:30 yesterday afternoon on a report of shot fired inside.  Inside, officers found the bodies of  48-year-old Ann Marie ...

Police are looking for a convicted drug dealer from Bridgeport who they say is a suspect in the robbery of a Chase Bank office here yesterday.