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.

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

A Bridgeport man accused of assaulting his wife and her children with a baseball bat in September is facing nearly 30 more charges after violating a protective order

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

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Hartford HealthCare held a donation drive in Bridgeport Wednesday to support sexual assault survivors across the Connecticut community. “I’m a survivor of childhood sexual violence,” Tara Flynn said.

A man accused of brutally beating a family member and her two young children with a baseball bat in Bridgeport has been re-arrested for violating a protective order nearly two dozen times, a new arrest warrant states.

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