2024-03-20 5:15pm--#Westport CT-- Rough seas overwhelm the Saugatuck Rowing Club in Westport. Frank Recchia just arrived at the rowing club to get further details. Unconfirmed reports say over 20 were pulled from the water, 2 are being treated for hypothermia. https://youtu.be/ogLGwtC0XNc
[HARTFORD, CT] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) joined Senate colleagues in introducing two new bills that would ban predatory practices by landlords who use pricing algorithms to avoid competition and raise rents. Senator Blumenthal is a cosponsor of both the Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act, which would prevent companies from using algorithms to collude to set higher prices, and the Preventing the Algorithmic Facilitation of Rental Housing Cartels Act, which would crack down on companies that help landlords increase rents in already high-priced markets. “This practice affects housing throughout Connecticut. This kind of conscious collusion ought to be stopped. It is inflating rents for the ordinary person who goes to the landlord and is given a price that is based on an…
2024-03-20@10:57am-- #Fairfield CT-- First responders dispatched to School Street and Jennings Road for an iPhone crash alert. Turns out there was no crash but police did locate an iPhone on the ground. So it went from a crash to found property!
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont is urging the Connecticut General Assembly to approve legislation he proposed for consideration this session that will expand and strengthen the state’s paid sick days statutes to ensure that more workers have the ability to take time off from work when they are sick or need to care for a sick family member without sacrificing a day’s wage or risk losing their employment. The proposal will also enact safeguards in these statutes for small businesses to ensure that the right to paid sick days is not being misused. “Our current paid sick days laws include important protections for some workers, however there are broad categories of workers who are left unprotected,” Governor Lamont said. “If…
On March 14, 2024, Officers D. Teixeira and Z. Schuler of the Bridgeport Police Patrol Division responded to a reported incident on the east side of the city. Upon arrival, they initiated an investigation that resulted in the recovery of a stolen Smith and Wesson 9mm firearm, equipped with a loaded seventeen-round magazine, from Boysie Vega, a 32-year-old resident of the city. Further inquiry revealed that Vega, a convicted felon, was unlawfully in possession of the firearm. Vega faces multiple charges, including criminal possession of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit, illegal possession of a high-capacity magazine, stealing a firearm, illegal transfer of a firearm, and violation of a protective order. Bond was set at $50,000.
2024-03-19@12:15pm--#Bridgeport CT-- Firefighters were called to help extricate a person from this crash with injuries on Birmingham Street near Dewhirst.
2024-03-18@8:24pm--#Derby CT-- #cttraffic-- Firefighters called for a brush fire on Route 34/Roosevelt Drive at Cullens Hill Road.
2024-03-18@7:30pm--#Fairfield CT-- Firefighters and police were called to a fire that was set by kids in the back of Stratfield School on Melville Avenue. The fire was out upon their arrival.
2024-03-18@7:11pm--#Fairfield CT--First responders are on the scene of a crash at North Benson and Post Road. Radio reports indicate the traffic control lights were not working at the time. Our sponsor would teach you that when the traffic light is not working that you need to treat that intersection as a 4 way stop.
2024-03-18@6:40pm--#Bridgeport CT-- #cttraffic-- A crash on I-95 southbound near the exit 29 ramp. Expect delays as southbound traffic is shutdown.
