Fairfield News

A passenger who was seriously hurt in last week's train crash on the Bridgeport-Fairfield border filed a lawsuit Friday against Metro-North Railroad, The Hartford Courant reported .

More than two dozen Fairfield County veterans, boys scouts and active duty soldiers did not let pouring rain, howling wind and unseasonably cold temperatures deter them from honoring those who gave their lives for their country in a memorial ceremony on Saturday morning.

Bill and Nancy Gault stand near a painting of a gravel pit where Gault worked as a young man, part of a new exhibit about the Gault family at Westport Historical Society that opened Friday.

A chilly, wet start to this Memorial Day weekend will only get better the closer we get to the actual holiday, according to the National Weather Service .

Monroe volunteer EMT Bob Zawatski shows some of the water damage caused by the old, leaking roof at Station 2 at 54 Jockey Hollow Road in Monroe, Conn.

Inmates at seven minimum- and medium-security prisons in West Virginia will be sowing seeds this spring and tending plants this summer as part of a new program to grow produce for the state's largest food bank.

The Colony Grill's newest location is open for business on the site of the old Harrison's Hardware at 36 Broad Street on the Green in downtown Milford, Conn.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. A Bridgeport man was charged with exposing himself to a woman Fairfield's Kohl's department store earlier this year, police say.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. Here's a list of what's open and closed on Monday, May 27 for Memorial Day in and around Fairfield: a-a Old Town Hall and Sullivan Independence Hall are both closed Monday.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. One Metro-North train engineer saw "an unusual condition on the track" just before last week's train derailment and collision on the Bridgeport-Fairfield border in a spot near where a rail joint had been repaired in April, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Friday.

There's a full slate of Memorial Day-related tributes and celebrations in Fairfield this weekend, culminating in the annual street parade on Monday morning.

A crash between a tractor=trailer truck and another vehicle caused big traffic problems, but most of the major problems are over.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. Fairfield's beach season begins this Memorial Day weekend, and town officials are reminding residents of the rules of the beach - especially regarding alcohol.

"A Dance In The Clouds," an oil-on-canvas by Fairfield artist David Gorski, will among the works at the "The Art of Transport," at the Pierce Ball Gallery in Stamford, Conn., which opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, May 31, 2013.

According to police, it began in Meriden, Connecticut on April 11. The men invaded a home and bound and gagged four people, including the manager and another employee of a Lenox Jewelry store in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Nancy Newman , of Fairfield, will be honored at a dinner on Wednesday, June 5, for her contributions to early-childhood programs at the Jewish Community Center of Eastern Fairfield County in Bridgeport.

Updated at 1:45 p.m. FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- A flood advisory has been added until 4:15 p.m. Thursday in Fairfield County as thunderstorms move through the region, the National Weather Service said.

FAIRFIELD, Conn. Two Fairfield elementary school students won a statewide competition for sharing their dreams of helping the environment when they grow up.

John Kovach Passengers who were on trains that collided at the Bridgeport-Fairfield line Friday, May 17, walk toward a bus to be taken to their destination.

Along the shore this weekend "sandy'' will revert to its benign, pre-storm meaning, with nearly all beaches and parks restored and ready for the unofficial start of summer.