Bridgeport News

A DUI checkpoint on the Post Road turned chaotic early Thursday when a speeding car rammed a police cruiser and then the car's passenger, in a frenzied getaway attempt, caused the vehicle to careen down the street and strike another motorist head on.

Fire struck a chemical warehouse off the Post Road in the Southport section of town early this morning, triggering a hazardous-materials attack on the heavy flames by local, regional and state fire crews.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport admitted in court papers that it has documented 32 allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests associated with a Trumbull parish over 40 years.

IYC Reporter John Burgeson bravely stands in the street as cars drive over, according to one map, what should be the Cortes family s property.

Which of the following arrests made last week is the more embarrassing? The first is that Stewart B. McKinney Jr., a Bridgeport Public School teacher, son of the Fourth District's late congressman Stewart McKinney and the brother of current state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney .

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The attorney for a Sacred Heart University lacrosse player charged with helping two teammates sexually assault a woman says the accusations are a gross exaggeration of alcohol-fueled hijinks.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport -- in a legal brief filed in Waterbury Superior Court -- admitted that it has secret files detailing 32 allegations of sexual abuse of children by eights priests assigned over the last 40 years to a single parish -- St.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Three players on Sacred Heart University's men's lacrosse team have been arrested in an alleged rape of an'-year female student.

Two city men were charged Monday with stealing the donation box containing hundreds of dollars in donations collected to benefit wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

New leadership has been elected to most of the top jobs in the city's police union, a year after the prior leadership negotiated a controversial contract with the Finch administration that bypassed raises for two years in exchange for no layoffs.

Pick a first or third Monday of nearly any month, the night the City Council meets.

Despite concern it wouldn't be back, The Gathering of the Vibes will return to Bridgeport next year.

About 10 days ago, Carolyn Vermont, the first vice president of the Greater Bridgeport chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, got a phone call from the civil-rights organization's state president, Scot X. Esdaile.

Since it debuted in October of 2008, the Travel Channel series "Ghost Adventures" has taken viewers to roughly two dozen creepy locales.

One person died early today in a single-car crash on Route 8 south near exit 12.

An accident on Route 8 in Shelton left a 29 year old Bridgeport man dead, police say.

The oldest remaining houses built by free blacks in Connecticut are considered irreplaceable by national historians.

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.