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After losing seven family members in horrific crash, a Bronx family is struggling to pay funeral expenses. Estimates are expected to be as high as $100,000 to bury all seven after this deadly crash in the Bronx on Sunday. This video report from Associated Press has the full story.
At around 5:20pm Monday Bridgeport Police received a call of shots fired at Poplar Street and Beechwood Avenue. Reports say two were shot including a 3 year old girl who was crossing the street with her mother. It is reported that she was shot in the buttocks and has non-life threatening injuries. Witnesses told us that a gray four door sedan pulled up and opened fire and they said it was 9mm semi automatic fire from one shooter. We are told as many as 25 shots were fired. The shooting happened righ near Bryant School and you can see school children looking on in the video. Please keep in mind this is breaking news and the information will more…
From the Secret Service to the Kardashians, everything was fair game at the annual White House Correspondents' dinner. But the featured item on the menu was dog ... jokes -- which figured, since Barack Obama's old admission to eating dog as a child was just recently revived as a campaign sideshow. Read full story.....
[SlideDeck id='494' width='100%' height='400px'] 3:40am--#Bridgeport--Home invasion at 68 Highland Avenue Building 3 on the 7th floor (Greene Homes). 2 black males forced their way into the apartment wearing all black and ski masks. A gun was displayed and they took a TV and laptop after stabbing the victim in the leg. Police are on scene EMTs on the way. UPDATE-- This occurred around 3:15am and a 32" TV was taken as well as a laptop. 12:45am--#Fairfield #Westport--We have a report of a pursuit on I-95 southbound from Westport exit 18. A white van was wanted for interupted burglary in Fairfield. Stop sticks were deployed but vehicle kept going. The vehicle was lost on kings st towards the parkway in…
Just before 6pm Sunday evening police received a call from Adams Bakery at 1525 Black Rock Turnpike of an armed robbery. A gun was displayed. The gunman was a white male, about 6 feet tall, thin build, blond, in his mid twenties and he wearing a black jacket. He took an undermentioned amount of cash and fled west on Judd Street in a gray 4 door Infinity. The gunman is still at large.
NEW YORK (AP) — An out-of-control SUV barreled across several lanes of traffic on a highway overpass Sunday, then plunged more than 50 feet off the side of the road and landed in a ravine on the grounds of the Bronx Zoo, killing all seven people aboard, including three children, authorities said. The SUV was headed south on the Bronx River Parkway that cuts through a working-class neighborhood when it bounced off the median, crossed three southbound lanes and hit the curb, causing the vehicle to become airborne, continue over the guardrail and plunge 59 feet, police said. Read Full Story.......
WILTON — Two firefighters were injured Sunday afternoon while battling a massive fire that tore through the Wilton Crest condominium complex off Wolfpit Road. Upwards of 60 firefighters from Wilton and neighboring towns were called to the scene at about 11:43 a.m. when the dispatch center received multiple 911 calls reporting a large fire at Wilton Crest condos. Read Full Story....
BRIDGEPORT -- An unidentified man was seriously injured Friday morning after being shot while walking into a Reservoir Avenue Citgo station, police said. Police said the victim was hospitalized with potentially life-threatening injuries after being shot just after 11 a.m. Read full story: http://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Man-shot-at-Bridgeport-Citgo-station-3515568.php#ixzz1tGEZJlTy
[caption id="attachment_7338" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Hundreds waited in the drizzling rain"][/caption] Food Network's Chef Robert Irvine and crew arrived at Stella's Restaurant Wednesday to make over the restaurant and menu in two days time. That proves to be quite the challenge for the crew at [caption id="attachment_7339" align="alignright" width="150" caption="The owners wait for Chef Irvine's reveal"][/caption] Division 9 Design and Construction from Clinton New Jersey who does the work for the show. They have to wait for the designer to come up with the concept then run to Home Depot and get all the items needed for the makeover before they can even begin to work. So the crew is lucky if they get a day and half to do the…
Nadya Suleman is being investigated by DCFS after her hairstylist claimed her house was not a suitable living situation for her kids! She receives $2,000 a month on food stamps and spends $540 a month on her hair.