Bridgeport News

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.

Police are looking for a quartet of armed robbers who held up the Dollar Store at the corner of John Street and West Avenue on Monday afternoon.

It will be click it or ticket in the Park City beginning Monday. The Police Department's Traffic Division will be on patrol around the city until the day after Thanksgiving giving out tickets to drivers who aren't buckled up, said Police Department Spokesman Keith Bryant.

Work began Monday to get rid of high levels of radon detected in a dozen city schools, starting with the Central High School library.

Crime is a mixed bag here these days, federal and local statistics show. Depending on whom you talk to and which numbers you emphasize, Bridgeport could be one of the most dangerous cities in the state or one of the safest large cities.

By all accounts, Barry Diamond was a pillar of the community. He co-founded and was president of Trumbull's Own Chamber of Commerce.

A 59-year Bridgeport man died early Saturday morning after his car spun out of control on Interstate 95 and another car plowed into the crash scene, State Police said.

The annual downtown Christmas tree-lighting ceremony will take place on Dec. 5 at 4 p.m., officials announced late Wednesday.