A former Bridgeport fire official has died and police are conducting an untimely death investigation. The police department said Harold Clarke Sr. was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning, but he didn’t show up.

Tony Barr was charged with assaulting emergency medical personnel, interfering with an officer and traveling too fast for conditions after a crash, police say.

The city of Bridgeport is hoping to get people buzzing about conservation this year. On Jan. 9, Bridgeport Mayor Joe Gamin announced in a news release that the city has become an affiliate of Bee City USA,

State Democratic Party leaders have told their Bridgeport counterparts to replace the treasurer because she lives out of town.

Bridgeport police are reporting a rash of vehicle break-ins since mid-December, and hot-spots in the city where the problem is pervasive.

David Anderson served in as a Marine during the Korean War. His daughter, Cindy Anderson, now serves as the director of Veterans Affairs for Bridgeport.

Connecticut State Police said a pedestrian was fatally struck on 1-95 on Wednesday. According to state police officials, a pedestrian, later identified as Suniel Michael Ross of Woonsocket, had ran across the three lanes on I-95 south and jumped over the center median.

A program to help new moms and babies ease from hospital to home, a joint effort between Bridgeport Hospital and the state, is reaching the end of its first,

Bridgeport leaders are working together with mayors and superintendents from Connecticut’s largest cities – Hartford, New Haven, Stamford and Waterbury.

Stop work orders and fines were issued to a handful of the firms working on the luxury housing complex in Bridgeport.

In this year's ranking, small towns in the Northeast dominated for the second year in a row, including four in Connecticut: Stamford in third place, Bridgeport in fifth place, New Haven in eighth place and Waterbury in ninth place.

Monday morning, the gym of Bridgeport’s Luis Munoz Marin Elementary School was full of kids and their families, but there was no school. They came out to celebrate