Month: May 2017

Bridgeport News: 1 Dead In Police Involved Shooting

5:05pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Please keep in mind this is written without any official word from the Bridgeport Police or State Police who are in charge of the investigation.  It is a gathering of talking to witnesses, detectives in off camera interviews and playing back dispatch radio reports.   Police attempted to pull over stolen car on Laurel Avenue with two occupants inside.  The car sped towards towards Park Avenue.   Another police car was responding coming from Washington Avenue and then the stolen vehicle turned into the Walgreen's parking lot at 1000 Park Avenue.      The vehicle then turned left onto Fairfield Avenue the wrong way when it struck a car.  According to detectives the stolen vehicle rammed two police…

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Book Signing With Our Good Friend Lennie Grimaldi

Connecticut Characters: Personalities Spicing Up The Nutmeg State, is well-known local author Lennie Grimaldi's latest effort. The historic Barnum Museum in Bridgeport is pleased to host a book signing party, and a little bit of banter, on Thursday, May 11, at 5:30pm. Grimaldi says the new book chronicles his run-ins with the famous, funky and freaky and is a career retrospective, sampling some of Connecticut's "characters". Besides President Donald Trump, who he did work for in the late 90's, his book includes late, fallen, returned and trailblazing politicians; paranormal investigators and Westport actress Linda Blair, famous for playing a possessed child in the horror movie "The Exorcist,". They include a Mayor, a Governor, a police chief, an undercover cop, a private…

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