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.

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.

Tony Barr was charged with assaulting emergency medical personnel, interfering with an officer and traveling too fast for conditions after a crash, police say.

On Friday, the National Water Main Cleaning Company admitted to knowingly discharging a pollutant into Cuff Brook while working in Cheshire in July 2019.

A program to help new moms and babies ease from hospital to home, a joint effort between Bridgeport Hospital and the state, is reaching the end of its first,

A man who was shot in Bridgeport on Saturday has died, marking the city’s first homicide of 2025. Officers were called to the 200 block of Lake Street around 4:30 p.m. Saturday for a report of a person shot.

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,

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

Monday morning, the gym of Bridgeport’s Luis Munoz Marin Elementary School was full of kids and their families, but there was no school. They came out to celebrate

In this year's ranking, small towns in the Northeast dominated for the second year in a row, including four in Connecticut: Stamford in third place, Bridgeport in fifth place, New Haven in eighth place and Waterbury in ninth place.

A former high-ranking fire official was found dead Friday, Jan. 17, after he failed to show up for his sentencing on a sexual assault conviction, authorities announced. The body of Harold Clarke Sr.,

TikTokers in our state are scrambling to figure out what to do following the Supreme Court decision. It ruled a ban on the app can go forward, potentially as soon as Sunday. “It all kind of feels like a prank.