Local News in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Stratford, Norwalk, and Beyond!
10:47am--#Bridgeport CT-- Bryant School at 230 Poplar Street has been evacuated due to a gas leak. Firefighters are on scene and gas company is on the way. UPDATE--11:11am--Class back in session. Gas company finds the leak at the heating unit and doing repairs.
City Crews Focusing on Pothole Repairs Residents Asked to Send in Requests through City’s BConnected Service BRIDGEPORT, CT (January 15, 2014) – Winter snow combined with dramatic shifts in temperature can mean only one thing in New England – it’s pothole season. Constant freezing and thawing wreak havoc on roadways, so City Public Works crews are out each day, weather permitting, filling potholes throughout the City. Mayor Finch announced today, the City will deploy four Roadway Maintenance trucks focused on filling potholes on roads in every neighborhood in the city. “As a result of the snow and the extreme temperature shifts, we are certain to see potholes popping up very quickly. Our crews are out on our streets every day filling and patching…
#Bridgeport, CT -- Jan. 15, 2014 – Two men face burglary charges after police received a report of a burglary in progress on Columbia Street. A concerned citizen called 911 Tuesday reporting seeing two people break into a house through a side window. Officers Frank D’Amore and Fernando Oquendo responded to the location while the caller provided information to dispatchers, who relayed it to police over the radio. Oquendo detained two men on Ridge Avenue who were carrying items apparently taken from the house. D’Amore, Officers John Perry and Frank Cuccaro and Detective David Garcia checked the house and observed signs of a burglary. Police recovered a range of items from the men including a coin-filled piggy bank, a football, a laptop computer, television…
#Bridgeport, CT -- Jan. 15, 2014 – Two city women face attempted robbery and attempted carjacking charges after an incident on Laurel Avenue Tuesday evening. Officer Damien Csech was completing paperwork on a motor vehicle stop he conducted when a woman approached and told him two females had just tried to rob her. She told him the incident had just happened and the women were on foot. Csech checked the side streets in the area and located two women matching the description of the suspects and detained them. The victim stated that she was coming home from work when one of the suspects walked in front of her vehicle and stood in front of her bumper so she couldn’t drive forward.…
Home Invasion in Trumbull and a manhunt in Bridgeport. Breaking news while it is still breaking! Share us with your friends so they know what is happening in real time, not a day or two later!
10:05pm--#Trumbull CT--An armed home invasion just occurred at 223 White Plains Road by 2 younger black males, both wore dark hooded jackets both had guns, pistol whipped the victim after taking his cellphone and laptop. A thick fog in the area is making the search more challenging.
9:00pm--#Bridgeport CT--There is a manhunt NWood/Maplewood area for three males who bailed after a traffic stop.
5:55pm--#Bridgeport CT--Man in the 900 block of Iranistan Avenue stabs his wife during argument. Police and EMS on scene. Man fled on foot down Iranistan Avenue towards Fairfield Avenue.
#Bridgeport, CT -- -- A 54-year-old man was arrested for his role in robbing a bank this morning. According to Officer Kevin Cronin, two males entered the Webster Bank branch at 3546 Main St. shortly after 9 a.m. One brandished an orange-colored weapon and the males ordered customers to the ground. The men fled the bank with cash but police received information that the suspects got into a black vehicle. Sgt. James Remele subsequently observed a vehicle matching that description but lost sight of it. The Acura was located unoccupied at Park and Olive streets. Police observed a possible suspect in the area and detained him. Employees of the bank came to the scene and identified the man, Tyrone King, of Atlantic Street, as one…
3:01pm--#Bridgeport CT--Police are investigating a suspicious letter that the army reserve center at 180 High Street received in the mail.