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Bridgeport Police said they’re searching for a baby that was allegedly abducted from the park by their biological father Friday night. Police said Jalayjah is with 30-year-old James Douglas, who appears to be the biological father. Douglas is driving a 2014 maroon Honda Civic EX with the license plate BE36105. Jalayjah is believed to be a passenger in the car….

The family of a 23-year-old woman who was found dead inside her Bridgeport apartment in December is looking for answers about her death and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has released information on how she died. Lauren Smith-Fields died of “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, promethazine, hydroxyzine, and alcohol,” according to the medical...

A 92-year-old man with dementia who was reported missing from Bridgeport on Sunday has been found. Joseph Mainiero was reported missing late Sunday night. City officials said Mainiero has dementia and had no form of identification on him. Mainiero was found safe shortly before midnight, according to city officials. Authorities did not release details about where he was found.

Bridgeport’s police chief and its acting personnel director were arrested on federal charges of fraud in an alleged scheme to rig the city’s examination process for the chief in 2018 to ensure his selection, the Department of Justice and FBI announced Thursday afternoon. Chief Armando Perez, 64, and David Dunn, 72, are accused of manipulating the examination process and deceiving…

Several gunshots were fired into a car outside the courthouse on Golden Hill Street in Bridgeport on Monday afternoon and four men have been taken to the hospital after what authorities believe was a targeted shooting. Officials said three people identified as persons of interest in the shooting are in custody on unrelated charges, but they have not been charged…

A Bridgeport woman who police said was wanted in connection to the murder of her husband has turned herself in.

Connecticut police officers have agreed to settle an alleged brutality lawsuit by a man who was shown beaten and bloody on the TV show “Live PD.”

A Connecticut high school employee is accused of threatening to go on a killing spree and “execute every white man he gets his hands on,” police said.

A Bridgeport man is accused of stabbing his teenage niece to death at an apartment on Fairfield Avenue Monday night.

Seven people have been arrested at a demonstration in Hartford over authorities’ handling of the case of a 15-year-old boy who police killed in Bridgeport in May.

A group of police officers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, have been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an investigation into a video showing them apparently roughing up a teenager.

A man has been charged with murder in the death of a heroic barber who jumped in to defend his customers during an armed robbery on October 14 in Bridgeport.

The man who was shot and killed in a Bridgeport, Connecticut barbershop last weekend died trying to protect the life of a little boy whose hair he had just cut.

A man and a dog were shot in Bridgeport and a woman was kidnapped early Monday morning. The woman was later located in Wallingford and police are trying to determine exactly what happened.

A 6-year-old Bridgeport, Connecticut, girl was found safe in Pennsylvania with her father after a multi-state Amber Alert and the father is suspected of stabbing and killing the girl’s 26-year-old mother and assaulting the woman’s friend, according to police.

A federal grand jury has indicted a Bridgeport police officer accused of using excessive force while making an arrest in Beardsley Park in 2011, and the police department has suspended him without pay.