Stratford News

A Stratford man who was spared a federal prison sentence for a 1985 bank fraud stood before a federal judge again Thursday and pleaded guilty to bilking loan applicants out of more than $1 million in advance fees.

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.

Outgoing Mayor James R. Miron's refusal to sign an emergency order for town acquisition of two new fire trucks within 30 days places the public at "great risk," Town Council members from both political parties contend.

A Stratford man who saw his conviction for attempted murder of a federal officer thrown out by a federal judge, but then re-instated by a federal appeals court, will now be going to prison for 13 years.

Like Major League baseball players who these days shuffle from team to team every year or so, after a municipal election in Stratford it takes a scorecard to keep track of which officials are serving on which boards and commissions.

An area company has gone east to accommodate its growing work force..... 64 Wall St. in Norwalk to 8,240 square feet in a 55,250-square-foot office building at 300 Long Beach Blvd. in Stratford Executive Park. The space was at one time occupied by ADP. The move last month came at the perfect time for LeadQual. "We were ...

...Fairfield and Trumbull. The second project, the removal of 300 trees along a four-mile stretch of the parkway in Stratford, is classified as ongoing maintenance by the DOT to remove dangers from edge of the road. A DOT spokesman disputed Malkin's ...

A Stratford man faces sentencing after he was convicted of attempted murder for shooting at police officers at a Bridgeport gas station in...

Angela Capozzi, a Stratford middle school teacher, has taught about the Holocaust for years by assigning her eighth graders to read "Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl," about a Jewish girl who hid with her family from the Nazi's for two year before being captured.

Residents of a secluded North End neighborhood where two people died during a September fire that required water tankers be set up because of the lack of hydrants demanded Monday that the town provide more hydrants to prevent future tragedies...

It was just before 2:30 Thursday morning and Marie Henry, of Stratford, had just crashed her car into a wall along the Cross County Parkway in Westchester...when a T-shirt and a light jacket, Henry said in the dark of night she had no idea the man was Yankee manager Joe Girardi, who just hours earlier had led his team to its 27th World Championship. Girardi was on his way...

Two males were shot Thursday night and rushed to Bridgeport Hospital, apparently in serious condition, after shots rang out at a housing complex on Gregory Circle and Woodend Road, police said.

John Norko, the town's finance director who previously served under the late Gov...

Autulio Rodriguez grew up in the South Bronx in an area he describes as "one of the toughest neighborhoods in the country," an urban terrain that had plenty of crumbling roadways with treacherous curves.

Southwestern Connecticut voters in four towns lashed out at incumbents Tuesday, defeating Stratford Mayor James R. Miron, Trumbull First Selectman Raymond G. Baldwin Jr., Seymour First Selectman Robert Koskelowski and Monroe First Selectman Thomas Buzi....

Months of hard work, presentation of ideas, door-to-door campaigning and debating ended at 8 p.m. last night with the closing of polls in Connecticut communities.

While the intense mayor's race, one of the hottest in the region, has dominated the headlines and attention during this year's municipal campaign, the entire 10-member Town Council is also up for re-election...But it also means if Republican candidate Rep. John Harkins wins, he could be forced to work with a Democratic council, in much the same way Miron has had to work with a GOP-controlled council the past four years. Harkins said. "But during my thirteen years serving as a state representative I have been able to reach across the aisle and work with Democrats on some very important issues.... And, if either independent candidate Domenic Costello or George Mulligan were to gain election, they would have to work with a council represented by Republicans and Democrats they have been critical of...

The white-hot political battles facing four veteran southwestern Connecticut leaders are drawing statewide attention this Election Day....only about 40 percent of registered voters, at most, are expected to reach the polls and determine who wins. In Stratford, Shelton, Trumbull and Milford, unaffiliated voters nearly equal or outnumber the combined total....

A local woman has been charged with abandoning her small dog for several days. Michelle Irizarry, 36, of Barnum Avenue, was charged Wednesday with cruelty to animals, keeping a dog confined for an unreasonable time, failure to license a dog and failure to get a rabies vaccination for a dog.

Stratford - In response to Mayor James Miron's campaign press conference, held in the Mayor's Office with town employees in attendance, State Representative John Harkins issued the following statement: "The Mayor's use of taxpayer resources for campaign activity is unethical and... Miron’s “cabinet” appointees received 6-10% pay raises that were approved at the same time the Mayor was negotiating a wage freeze with other town employees...