Bridgeport News

State Police charged 26 people with drunken driving in Connecticut on the first day of the Labor Day weekend.

The city of Bridgeport and a nonprofit organization are in a battle over some historic homes.

City officials have agreed to pay $60,000 to an Easton family whose 7-year-old daughter was bitten by a pitbull from the municipal animal shelter three years ago at an adoption fair in Fairfield.

Connecticut regulators issued a draft decision Friday that ATT must get permission from municipalities before putting its large video equipment boxes on utility poles and other properties.

Two Fairfield County men charged in a New York City murder waived their right to extradition hearings Thursday in state Superior Court in Stamford.

A Bridgeport teen shot in the buttocks July 29 is charged with later robbing a town man of a cell phone and firing a gun as the man chased him.

A Bridgeport teenager is facing a long prison term after pleading guilty to fatally shooting another teen in a dispute over a cell phone.

A local man who pleaded guilty yesterday to drug and racketeering charges now faces up to nine years in prison for running a heroin-distribution operation in the city.

One person is dead in a pileup on Interstate 95, between southbound exits 40 and 41, this morning, causing a miles-long backup of rush-hour traffic.

At 5 years old, Daniel Ndamwizeye lost his parents during the genocide in Rwanda.

A motorcylist lay dead under a tan-colored tarp on Bridgeport Avenue in front of the world-famous Wiffleball factory Sunday night, the victim of a collision with a motor vehicle.

Over 300 people gathered last night at Mt. Aery Baptist Church in Bridgeport to share a meal and experience an historic night together.

Roxanne Amiot wanted to study fashion design, so she decided to go to Bullard-Havens Technical High School.

The former Ansonia man accused of killing at least one cat and mistreating several others that had to be euthanized pleaded not guilty today to 10 counts of animal cruelty.

A Bridgeport man was ordered held on a $300,000 bond after being arraigned on sexual assault charges today in Bridgeport Superior Court.

Two people were arrested in a speed trap in Bridgeport traveling double the speed limit Tuesday.

The state Appellate Court has upheld the sexual assault conviction of a seminary student for fondling a 16-year-old Bridgeport girl.

Silver asparagus servers shaped like asparagus, fish servers that resemble fishing nets, grape shears with grapevine handles and many other unusual silver serving pieces have been made since the 19th century.

Former Mayor John M. Fabrizi has been named the new director of the city schools' adult education programs.

The man who was shot in the head late last night at the Charles F. Green Homes public housing complex on Highland Avenue has been identified by police this morning.