Fairfield News

Fears about an attempted child abduction were triggered this week after a driver made an apparently innocent request for directions from a 12-year-old boy, police said.

As legislators pore through a health care reform bill that runs nearly 2,000 pages, U.S. Rep.

Make it a "large" for Las Vetas, the popular coffee lounge downtown. Owner Andrew Servetas is asking for a waiver of parking requirements in order to move around the corner to the storefront that once housed The Open Book Shop on lower Unquowa Road.

Conservation officials' questions about a plan to build a medical office building at the corner of Jefferson Street and Easton Turnpike could delay review of the application.

A Fairfield teen was arrested on a warrant Friday for allegedly breaking into a Stratfield Road home in September and taking an XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

Fairfield County Council is calling out the school board in a letter. In that letter, council explains why it just raised taxes to the highest rate that's legal and they're pointing the blame at the school Board of Trustees.

On Halloween this Saturday, the gypsy jazz and rock band Caravan of Thieves will perform, um, dead.

The checks came every year in the first week of December: $2,500 for the local Police Explorer Post, a program of the Fairfield Police Department to expose young people to careers in law enforcement, from the Barbara Picower Foundation.

A Fairfield man who stabbed a Muslim religious leader in the chest outside a local mosque after accusing him of having an affair with his wife, was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison.

Police say they think they know who robbed the Bank of America office at the Post Road traffic circle Thursday morning.

The crickets seemed to chirp their protest at a pack of curious people who came to witness the night happenings among the tombstones of Fairfield's Old Burying Grounds Sunday night under a half moon.

A Connecticut judge has ruled that the insurance company for a former Fairfield lawyer who killed his neighbor in 2006 won't be responsible for any damages that could be awarded in a lawsuit filed by the victim's family.

While the optimal amount of vitamin D is still subject to debate, a new study finds one thing is sure: over 6 million American children are getting too little of this essential nutrient.

Little more than 24 hours after Bank of America was robbed, Fairfield police had a suspect in custody.

For 11 years, Charlie Snedacker was lucky. Though he loved sports, including lacrosse and skateboarding, Charlie, who lives in Norwalk, had never once gotten a concussion.

In 2006, Solomon Boyd was sentenced to 50 years in prison murdering someone in Norwalk several years prior to his conviction.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz will appear at Fairfield University Monday at 8 p.m. in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

About 300 people, most of them students from high schools and colleges in the region, got a glimpse of how the state Supreme Court operates at a rare session conducted on the road at Fairfield University.

Rising over downtown New Haven, the 14-story glass-and-stone tower houses what will be one of the world's most advanced cancer research and treatment centers.

The sound of Rob Bilella throwing a combination of punches in the ring filled one room at Fairfield Sports Fitness on Tuesday.