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Bridgeport, CT, United States (AHN) – Two Connecticut firefighters were killed Saturday afternoon while making sure there were no people inside a burning house. Bridgeport firefighters Lt. Steven Velazquez and Michel Baik were inside the burning house when they sent out mayday signals to their colleagues. When a rescue team finally reached their location, they found the men unconscious. They were pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital. Three other firefighters suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators are looking into what caused the massive house fire and into what killed Velazquez and Baik. Saturday marked the first time a Bridgeport firefighter...

A suspected tornado tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday — a rare occurrence in the state — toppling trees and power lines and collapsing a building as a powerful line of storms swept across parts of the Northeast. Remarkably, no serious injuries were reported. Hundreds of bricks shook loose from buildings, trees split in half and crushed cars, and a billboard hung precariously several stories up over Main Street. Rescuers searched what was left of a collapsed building before determining no one was inside. The office of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declared a state of emergency after the fast-moving system...

MYFOXNY.COM - There are numerous reports of damage after a fast-moving line of storms crossed the suburbs north and east of New York City. A state of emergency was declared in Bridgeport, Conn. after the storm. A building collapsed at 588 East Main Street. Emergency crews rushed to the scene. People are reportedly trapped in the muilti-story building, according to ctpost.com . State Police are bringing in a canine unit to help locate anyone trapped inside.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Severe storms swept across the Northeast and tore through Connecticut's largest city Thursday, downing trees and power lines, shattering windows and toppling church steeples. The mayor's office reported multiple injuries and rescuers were searching one building that had collapsed. Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch declared a state of emergency after the fast-moving system of wind and rain caused widespread damage....

Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani immigrant who police say has admitted parking an SUV bomb in New York, piled up debts and made few friends in the U.S. For most of the past decade, Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad struggled to find his place in America, piling up debts and bouncing from one run-down neighborhood to another. In 2004, he and his wife, Huma Mian, plunked down savings to take out a $218,400 mortgage for a two-story house in Shelton, a gritty Bridgeport suburb. The following year, Shahzad was awarded a master's of business administration degree from the University of Bridgeport, normally...

Mall Melee Involving 100 Rowdy Teens What's the matter with kids today? Updated 11:09 AM EST, Mon, Dec 28, 2009 More than 100 rambunctious teens turned the Westfield Trumbull into a giant mosh pit Saturday night, according to police. Two teens were ultimately arrested for returning to the after being thrown out by mall security for allegedly bothering customers. The fight erupted at a bus stop outside the shopping center, said police, and ultimately grew to include more than 100 young people. Trumbull police say they had to call in Bridgeport and state police officers for backup and were forced...

IT'S OFFICIAL!! SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 HARTFORD STATE CAPITAL AND BALDWIN PLAZA BRIDGEPORT TEA PARTY EXPRESS IS COMING TO HARTFORD AND BRIDGEPORT!! TEA PARTY EXPRESS HARTFORD RALLY It's time to take our country back! Join our efforts to bring REAL CHANGE to our government! Join the Hartford Tea Party Patriots in welcoming the Tea Party Express national bus tour when it arrives in Connecticut to rally Americans to oppose the out-of-control spending, higher taxes, bailouts and growth in the size and power of the government. The Hartford rally and Bridgeport Rally are part of a series of tea party rallies being...

Conservative author and pundit, Ann Coulter, has confirmed her participation at the Tea Party Express rally in Bridgeport, CT this Friday, September 11, 2009 at 1:30pm. The rally will be held at Baldwin Plaza (behind the courthouse) located at 1061 Main Street in Bridgeport, CT.

Fr, Michael Jude Fay Bridgeport, Conn., Aug 25, 2009 / 03:16 am (CNA).- Fr. Michael Jude Fay, a Connecticut priest who was found guilty of embezzling $1 million from his parish, died of prostate cancer on Saturday at the age of 58.His death was reported in a statement sent to CNA by the Diocese of Bridgeport.The diocese also encouraged the faithful to “pray for the repose of Father Fay's soul” and offered its “prayers and condolences to his mother and family.”Fr. Fay had been senior pastor at St. John’s Catholic Church in Stamford, Connecticut from 1991 to 2006. After...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut has filed a federal lawsuit following assertions by a state official that rallying church members at the Capitol in Hartford constitutes a violation of lobbying law. Six weeks after 4,000 Catholics in Connecticut rallied in opposition to a proposed state law known as Bill 1098, which dictated local parishes reorganize their governing structures to substitute lay leaders for priests in oversight of finances , the Diocese of Bridgeport received a letter from Connecticut's Office of State Ethics informing it that an investigation was underway to ascertain if the diocese had violated state...

May 30, 2009 Dear Friends in Christ: It is with a great degree of shock and dismay that I must share with you a recent action that the State of Connecticut has initiated with respect to our Diocese. As you will recall, following the surprise introduction of Bill 1098, which singled out Catholic parishes and would have forced them to reorganize contrary to Church law and the First Amendment, our Diocese responded in the most natural, spontaneous, and, frankly, American, of ways:  We alerted our membership – in person and through our website;  We encouraged them to exercise...

The latest now on the picture of Jesus hanging on the wall at Bridgeport High School. Right now, the group has just under $139,000 in cash and checks, but they've contacted the school superintendent, and say they'll have enough to present to the board at Tuesday's meeting. The board says it will hire outside council if the money is raised. That money will go into a trust fund to pay for any penalties should the board lose the case.

AP: Priest may have misspent $1.4 millionBy JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press WriterBRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A priest who resigned from a church in an affluent Connecticut community misspent up to $1.4 million in parishioner donations to lead a life of luxury with another man, according to a church-directed investigation. The Rev. Michael Jude Fay spent church money on limousines, stays at top hotels, jewelry, Italian clothing and a Florida condominium shared with the other man, auditors hired by the diocese found. About half the money he spent was kept in a secret bank account, according to their report, which was mailed...

John Fabrizi thinks he deserves a big pat on the back for having belatedly confessed that he's been a substance abuser......Fabrizi confessed to having used cocaine and abused alcohol since taking office April 2003..... he insists, his substance-abuse problem "never, ever affected my job performance." Of course, Fabrizi isn't exactly the best judge of how true that last statement really is. Fabrizi's decision to come clean wasn't prompted by any remorse or pangs of conscience: He had little choice but to admit the truth after a prosecutor inadvertently released the transcript of a wiretap in which an alleged cocaine dealer...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Mayor John M. Fabrizi admitted Tuesday he had abused cocaine while in office and said he wanted to apologize "to all the people of the city" but had no plans to resign. The admission followed the inadvertent release of an FBI document in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape of the mayor using cocaine. In a tearful speech to about 200 city employees and residents in City Council chambers Tuesday, Fabrizi said he had not used drugs in 18 months and had sought help for a drug addiction that he had hoped...

STAMFORD, Conn. - Adversaries called on the mayor of Connecticut's largest city to resign Monday, while supporters urged him to specifically address allegations he used cocaine. Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi, a Democrat, was named in an FBI report that surfaced last week in which an alleged drug dealer claimed an associate had a videotape of the mayor using cocaine. Fabrizi said he had made "poor choices in the past" but declined to be more specific. U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor has said Fabrizi was not a target of the drug investigation. FBI reports, which summarize statements made by witnesses but are...

NEW BRITAIN -- Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi today refused to directly address allegations that he used cocaine, instead saying he made poor choices in his personal life that he has since put behind him. Those allegations are included in a summary of an interview that FBI agents had last summer with accused drug dealer Juan Marrero. Marrero told agents that another Bridgeport politician had told him about a video that shows Fabrizi using cocaine, according to the Connecticut Post, which reviewed the documents. Fabrizi, who was in New Britain to finalize an agreement on a redevelopment project for Bridgeport, said...

Quilt commemorates sailor/poet from the U.S.S. Northampton An Oro Valley veteran was honored last week for connecting an uncle and his nephew more than a half-century after World War II prevented them from meeting. Sherman Walgren, 86, served as a third-class radioman on the USS Northampton from 1940 to June 1942. It was his first ship but not his last. Over the years, he has maintained a growing collection of Navy memorabilia from his time at sea to pass along to his grandchildren. That history of life during the war was what Walgren shared with Texas resident Phillip Dean Bucklew,...

Cheyenne is least taxing city - magazine Actually, Cheyenne is second to Casper for least-taxed city in the nation, but the Capital City topped Kiplinger's list because it's Wyoming's most populous. By Jessica Lowell rep5@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - The magazine won't even hit the stands until next week, but when it does, Kiplinger's will bear the news that Cheyenne is the least-taxed city in the nation. Taxes paid by a family of four here - $2,200 - are less than one-fifth the taxes paid in Bridgeport, Conn., the city that ranks at the bottom of the...

I-84 accident (From Chopper 8) Head-on collision on the Arragoni Bridge on Route 66 (from Chopper 8) (Cheshire-WTNH, Apr. 20, 2004 Updated 10:00 AM) _ It's a messy morning for commuters in part of the state. Serious accidents are tying up major thoroughfares. I-84 eastbound at Exit 26 in Cheshire is closed due to a fiery tractor trailer accident at a bridge crossing over a construction area. The road will be closed until around 1:00 PM due to the roadway melting from the fire."It's just like Bridgeport," State Police spokesman Sgt. J. Paul Vance said, referring to a crash and...