Today, at approximately 11:51 AM, a woman reported being robbed near the 100th block of Cowells Street and struck with a blunt object. The nature of the object is currently unclear. Officers were dispatched to the scene, where the victim was found to have sustained minor head injuries. Officers are now on-site gathering information and investigating. A description of the suspect has not yet been released.
Report of a 2 car motor vehicle accident with one car on its side, requiring extrication at the 800 block of North Ave, near Porter Street.
Report of a 2 car motor vehicle accident at intersection of Laurel Ave and Elmwood Ave.
Bridgeport, CT – The City of Bridgeport’s Health & Social Services Department has been a recent recipient of the Connecticut State Department of Public Health for Local Heat and Air Quality Preparedness & Response Planning grant; counting Bridgeport as one of two cities in Connecticut who’ve received this grant. The grant’s primary use will be for implementation of six community groups within public housing areas underneath the Park City Communities leadership: one in each of the City’s zip codes. The initiative behind the usage of the grant is to address heat and air quality disparities within public housing areas that specifically affect Bridgeport’s elderly population. Mayor Ganim stated, “I want to extend my deepest gratitude to the State Department of Public Health…
Cooling Centers Are Available and Can be Located by Calling 2-1-1 or Visiting 211ct.org (HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that due to a weather forecast indicating that Connecticut will experience very hot and humid temperatures over the next several days, he is directing Connecticut’s Extreme Hot Weather Protocol to be activated effective at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, July 8, 2024, and remaining in effect through 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. The current forecast is indicating that temperatures over this period during the daytime will rise into the 90s and the heat index will be between 95 and 100 degrees. Overnight temperatures are expected to be very uncomfortable, with lows only falling to the 70s and dewpoints…
#Westport CT-- According to our viewer Paulina who sent this in: "2 stolen cars, splitting lanes on the highway and one flipped and the passengers in the flipped car jumped into the other stolen car and took off. Also, one other car involved in accident. Took out a lamp post on 95, northbound between 18 and 19"> 2024-07-08@9:58am
2024-07-07@9:24pm--#Fairfield CT-- The firework display was interrupted as they had to extinguish a fire on the firework's barge.
2024-07-07@7:32pm--#Shelton CT-- A report of two jet skis colliding with one jet ski taking on water in the Housatonic River near Wooster Island. One person made it ashore to Wooster Island with a head injury.
On Wednesday, June 26th, Detectives from the Norwalk Police Special Victims Unit, with assistance from the Monroe Police Department, located and arrested Joseph Mejia of Charlotte, North Carolina, at a residence in Monroe, CT. After a several months-long investigation, a warrant was obtained for Mejia, charging him with Sexual Assault 4th Degree and two counts of Risk of Injury to a Child. The investigation centered around an incident from 2021 involving Mejia and a minor. Mejia was held on a $500,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on July 10, 2024. In May of 2023, the Norwalk Police Department’s Special Victims Unit began investigating an incident where a 4-year-old child was reported to have been sexually assaulted by…
2024-07-07@5:42pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Firefighters on scene of an attic fire on Lewis Street. Everyone is out safely firefighters kept the fire from spreading to any other part of the home.
