A member of the city's Democratic Town Committee was found passed out and slumped over in his car after a crash early Saturday and then became "verbally combative" with responding firefighters and police,

BRIDGEPORT — A former city assistant fire chief convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2022 did not appear in court for his scheduled sentencing Friday. Later in the day, a city official said the defendant, Harold Clarke Sr., was involved in "an incident" that occurred Friday.

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.

A former high-ranking fire official was found dead Friday, Jan. 17, after he failed to show up for his sentencing on a sexual assault conviction, authorities announced. The body of Harold Clarke Sr.,

On Friday, the National Water Main Cleaning Company admitted to knowingly discharging a pollutant into Cuff Brook while working in Cheshire in July 2019.

Helena Greenleaf of Thompson, Connecticut, won a $1 million-dollar prize from a "$2,500,000 Merry & Bright" lottery ticket purchased in Auburn, Massachusetts.

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

State officials plan to keep a close eye on the Bridgeport school system as district leaders move forward with layoffs amid a $32 million shortfall.

Arriving officers located a male victim at the front of a residence on Hewitt Street suffering from a gunshot wound to the torso.

Bridgeport city councilman Alfredo Castillo was referred to state prosecutors on Tuesday for potential criminal charges related to allegedly registering a non U.S. citizen to vote in the city’s 2023 Democratic primary and filling out an absentee ballot in that person’s name.

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

TikTokers in our state are scrambling to figure out what to do following the Supreme Court decision. It ruled a ban on the app can go forward, potentially as soon as Sunday. “It all kind of feels like a prank.