BRIDGEPORT — More than 700 people packed into the Messiah Baptist Church on Congress Street Friday afternoon for the funeral of 14-year-old Justin Thompson, the city middle school student gunned down on Seaview Avenue after leaving a sweet 16th birthday party broken up by police early Sunday.Read more full report from Connecticut Post….
WASHINTON, DC – Senator Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) today sent a letter to Michael Astrue, the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), expressing serious concerns with the SSA’s decision to close the Norwalk Social Security Office and relocate its employees.
“We are writing today to express our serious concerns with your office’s decision to close the Norwalk Social Security Office and relocate its employees to the other local offices within the Norwalk service district. We are united in our objection to this decision and the SSA timeline to close this office without retaining a satellite office or services in Norwalk as this action will place an undue hardship on beneficiaries,” said the lawmakers.
The office services approximately 320 clients per week and operates in a service area of which approximately 45,000 individuals are elderly. In the letter, the lawmakers urge Commissioner Astrue to reconsider the decision to close the Norwalk office and postpone the closure while full review is given to their concerns and those concerns expressed by the community. The lawmakers also expressed dismay over an apparent delay in notification of SSA’s plans.
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4:45pm–Bridgeport–Benham Ave. resident comes home and finds home broken into.
We are receiving reports power has been restored in Bridgeport, Trumbull and Fairfield.
3:22pm–#Bridgeport–5 parties detained at 373 Pembrooke Street after a large gathering, two flashing a gun which turned out to be a BB gun.
3:22pm–#Bridgeport–5 parties detained at 373 Pembrooke Street after a large gathering, two flashing a gun which turned out to be a BB gun.
2:55pm–#Fairfield–Report of smoke coming from the computer room at Precisions Systems located at 777 Commerce Drive. UPDATE–Faulty compressor was cause of all the smoke.
2:50pm–Bridgeport Police Roll Call- All heroes accounted for.
2:08pm–#Bridgeport–Red Dot Taxi and Limo on State Street reporting one of their town cars missing.
10:40am–#Fairfield #ctfire–Firefighters battling a “significant” chimney fire at 1410 Stratfield Road, all hands working.
Tuesday night’s New York Philharmonic performance of the Mahler Ninth was stopped dead by an unusual instrument–the iPhone. the offending phone owner was in the front rows of Avery Fisher Hall when his phone went off, just 13 bars before the last page of the score. In other words, in the final moments of a 25-minute movement, that ends a 90-minute symphony. It gets better….Read full story….
The day after parents of Farm Hill Elementary School students in Middletown expressed outraged about the way the school is dealing with misbehaving students, the school is making some changes.
Parents who attended a board of education meeting on Tuesday night were upset about teachers and staff putting the children, including those with special needs, in what they called “scream rooms.” The school district calls them “timeout rooms.” Read full story watch video report……
At 12:58 pm Tuesday afternoon, Officer Sudora initiated a traffic stop on State St.
near Butler in
Bridgeport on a White Honda which was a possible misuse of plates. As Officer Sudora
approached the vehicle, the operator fled on foot on Butler toward Fairfield Ave. Three black
males bailed out of the vehicle and fled in different directions. Officer Sudora initiated a foot
pursuit, as the suspect vehicle crashed into a parked car. Several Patrols (both Bridgeport and
Fairfield) were in the area. The suspect vehicle was confirmed stolen from Stamford, CT.
The suspect driver’s abandoned jacket was located a short distance away. The Bridgeport PD K-
9 tracked off of the jacket and led right to a suspect that Officer Ricco and Bridgeport Detective
Fiumidinisi had stopped on the corner of State and Clinton Avenue. Fairfield K-9 was also used
in a track from the vehicle.
The driver, Rafael Cooney (DOB 12/15/90) of 1166 Reservoir Avenue Bridgeport, CT was
taken into custody and charged with Larceny (stolen vehicle Stamford), Reckless Endangerment,
Criminal Trover, and Interfering. He was also charged with several MV charges. Bond was set
at $7500 total ($5000 for the Criminal and $2500 for MV Charges). The other two suspects were
not located. The case remains under investigation.
