Fairfield News

A landmark fish store sustained heavy fire and smoke damage Sunday when a predawn blaze ripped through the attic at 2445 Black Rock Turnpike, destroying the inventory and keeping firefighters on the scene for hours.

The local fire department Saturday afternoon pulled a man out of his partially submerged SUV after he left the roadway and drove off a retaining wall on Route 59.

A car plunged into the Rooster River off Brooklawn Parkway this afternoon, but the driver has been pulled from the wreck apparently without serious injuries.

Stunning views of Fairfield captured in more than 200 photographs currently on exhibit at the Fairfield Arts Council can very well provide the settings for some compelling stories.

A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume.

It goes by many names: Big Foot, Sasquatch -- the legendary half-human, half-ape creature that, according to legend, prowls the great northern woods of the U.S. and Canada.

Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:36pm EDT - Vials of extra-embryonic stem cells are pictured at a stem cell research center at the University of California San Francisco March 10, 2009.

Walking through the door of Sky Hookah Lounge is like entering another world. One passes from the bustling pavement of commercial Kings Highway in Fairfield into a dim, curtained room carpeted with oriental rugs, where smoke that smells of fruit and honey hangs in the air.

The town's shoreline begins with a salt marsh on Ash Creek and that's where we started day seven of the Hearst Connecticut Media Group's Breaking the Sound Barrier project.

A Norwalk man was seriously injured Friday when he was working on a floating barge off Pine Creek Avenue.

BIRMINGHAMGeneral Electric Co. said Friday it will build a $100 million manufacturing technology center in Michigan that will eventually employ more than 1,100 workers.

Marlene Katz believes that "beauty is from the inside out." To those unfamiliar with Katz and her spa, Intelligent Skin Sense, that may come as a surprise, but not to clients who have availed themselves of her services.

NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Connecticut police say a 13-year-old girl has died after a large tree fell on her during a party at a home on the Danbury - New Fairfield town line.

If your pet cat started talking, you'd likely freak out immediately. Yet the tale of chatty, snappily dressed feline Puss in Boots has delighted families for generations.

Fairfield police are investigating bogus calls to local colleges claiming a woman had killed her roommate.

Police detectives are asking for the public's help for more information about a local babysitter allegedly abusing her young 2-year-old charge.

A Fairfield man, charged with the 2008 stabbing of a Stratford man as he left a local mosque, wants to be tried by a judge instead of a jury.

When Katie Gausepohl and her family bought their house on Beach Road, they heard the stories about how British forces in July 1779 staged raids on the southwestern region of the breakaway Connecticut colony and tried to burn down the dwelling during an attack on Fairfield.

Thirteen years ago, Christina Vrba left her job as a teacher in a Catholic school in Groton and went to work for an online publisher, convinced the new medium would provide an opportunity to develop as a writer.

Police have arrested a juvenile for e-mailing a bomb threat that closed two schools last month.