2019-11-07@12:31am--#Bridgeport CT--Police are investigating an attempted break-in at Joseph Steakhouse on 360 Fairfield Avenue. The front door window was smashed and a side door window was completely smashed through but it does not appear that entry was made into this delicious restaurant.
2019-11-06@8:08pm--#Bridgeport CT-- A elderly woman received minor injuries in a one car crash on Vincellette Street near Primrose Street. Firefighters said the home did not suffer any structural damage other than a damaged fence. The homeowner has had previous crashes to his fence and home and has been complaining for a stop sign with no luck.
#Fairfield, CT – Attorney General William Tong, state Sen. Tony Hwang, and state Reps. Laura Devlin, Brenda Kupchick and Cristin McCarthy Vahey will hold a town forum tomorrow, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. on youth vaping prevention and education. During the forum, which is being held at Fairfield Woods Middle School, state officials will hear from representatives from the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, St. Vincent's SmokeStoppers program, Sacred Heart University, Yale Health, and the Fairfield public school district about measures being taken to combat vaping among Connecticut's youth. The subject matter experts will discuss the dangers of vaping, ways to prevent youth from using e-cigarettes and the resources available to families. In July, the Office of the Attorney General…
2019-11-05@8:10pm--#Fairfield CT--#cttraffic--Tonight's vehicle fire is an SUV just under the Mill Hill Bridgeport near exit 19. A two car crash, the SUV is on it's roof but everyone made it out safely, I was able to get this screen shot before they turned the cameras off.
2019-11-05@11:49pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Police dispatched to Barnum School on Waterview Avenue for an out of control voter. No other details provided. This news report is made possible by:
HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Interagency PFAS Task Force, the group he created this summer and tasked with making recommendations for him to consider that address the potential harmful effects of a widely-used class of chemicals known as PFAS, has transmitted to his office its final action plan. The plan recommends testing water supplies across the state, reducing the sources of PFAS in the environment, and cleaning up known contamination due to this class of emerging pollutants. “I applaud the work of this task force, which is the result of a collaborative effort among public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders coming together to address an emerging contaminant with real impacts globally, nationally, and right here in Connecticut,” Governor…
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) this week introduced the ELEVATE Act (S.2761), bicameral legislation that will ensure states receive the federal funding necessary to provide high-quality instruction to students learning English. Specifically this legislation will correct a flawed funding formula the U.S. Department of Education uses to allocate funds to states by fully capturing the number of K-12 students who relocate to the mainland from Puerto Rico. This bill would allow Puerto Rican students to be fully counted in the annual grant allocation that states receive under the English Language Acquisition grant program. Correcting this flaw will be especially helpful to states like Connecticut and Florida, which…
2019-11-04@8:50pm--#Bridgeport CT- The Eblens, located at 56 Boston Avenue was robbed by 1 woman and 2 men of $3,000 worth of merchandise. One of the men punched the manager in the face. They fled in a dark SUV. This same store was robbed of $3,000 in merchandise back on October 3rd. This news report is made possible by:
5:44pm--#Bridgeport CT-- A man was shot in the upper thigh and arm on Mountain Grove Street. He did not have life-threatening injuries but was in a great deal of pain. This is still breaking news so there isn't a lot of details at this moment.
#Trumbull CT-- Trumbull Police detectives charged a Waterbury man for robbing an elderly woman at the Westfield Trumbull Mall in August and stealing her car. Jordan Savage, age 25, of Waterbury, was apprehended when he was stopped by Watertown Police on Friday night and was arrested without incident after they learned of the active warrant for his arrest out of Trumbull. He was transported to Trumbull Police Headquarters where he was processed on numerous charges. After an extensive investigation, Trumbull Police detectives had identified Savage through a series of related crimes and an additional stolen vehicle from locations in Connecticut and New York State. The vehicle he had stolen from Trumbull was recovered days later in Staten Island, NY and…
