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Shelton resident Dennis Barry, 76, is accused of inappropriately kissing and touching a 29-year-old woman who was looking for a misplaced mail package, police said.

State police said a trooper suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he was struck by a vehicle on I-95 in Bridgeport during a traffic stop this month.

Bridgeport resident Nazareth Sinclair, 21, was arrested Thursday after Fairfield police say he was found with personal items taken from vehicles in the town.

Police said the defendant claims she mistook the spray bottle for one filled with water.

Bridgeport officials say a man with a knife was damaging cars in the area of Harral and Lexington avenues on Wednesday night.

Bridgeport police Capt. Kevin Gilleran said the man was shot in the leg and sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the incident shortly after 12 a.m. Wednesday.

The Texas-based forensic genetic genealogy lab Othram Inc. is crowd-funding to solve a 1993 cold case murder of an unidentified woman found charred in Bridgeport.

Bridgeport police say a person has been transported to the hospital after being stabbed in the leg on East Main Street on Sunday night.

Bridgeport official says fire crews battled a blaze at a residential building on Hastings Street on Sunday afternoon.

Bridgeport police say David Raphael was charged with first-degree assault in connection with a stabbing on John Street Saturday night.

Bridgeport's police chief has decided to gradually do away with patrol vehicles that have darkened windows to make his officers more accessible to the public.

John Gale, a Bridgeport police officer of 24 years, has been demoted and suspended following an internal investigation, a city official said.

A juvenile and an adult were charged with unrelated crimes at the scene of the Bridgeport shooting that killed 17-year-old Romain Sterling, police said.

An early-morning fire displaced five people in Bridgeport Friday, a city spokesperson says.

State police said Ansonia resident Michael Bernaud, 27, sent multiple inappropriate messages to a 13-year-old boy on Instagram.

Police say they are investigating the death of Brooks Hood, 27, of Bridgeport, who was found in a Framingham home with trauma to his body.

Trumbull police say masked thieves stolen thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry from the Kay Jewelers store in the Trumbull Mall Wednesday.

Despite aggressive recruitment, Bridgeport is still lagging on its police department staffing, and 81 officers will be eligible to retire over the coming years.

Bridgeport police say Romain Sterling, a 17-year-old city resident who was shot last week on the 1200 block of Park Avenue, has died from his injuries.

Fairfield police said a New York man with an ax encountered by police tried to get officers to kill him, and fled on foot across I-95 before surrendering.

Westport Fire Assistant Chief Training Officer Brett Kirby said two residents were injured Wednesday morning in a fire on Hunt Club Lane.

Stratford police said Short Beach and Long Beach were closed as of 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon in anticipation of a large gathering of youths.

Fairfield police say they responded six times since 2022 to the home of Robert Van Weddle, who is accused of stabbing a woman there Sunday night.

The Milford Police Department said officers responded to an Old Gate Lane motel after a woman called saying a man with a gun was banging at her door Saturday.

A vehicle drove through a building at Daybreak Ridge condominiums on River Road in Shelton Tuesday morning, police said.

Fairfield police were called to Mountain Laurel Road Sunday night for what was determined to be a domestic incident and arrested Robert Van Weddle.

Bridgeport police said there would be extra security measures taken at city mosques and synagogues on Sunday in the wake of Iran's attack on Israel.

A man police say crashed into a concrete barrier while driving under the influence of drugs with his children in the car was arrested Thursday.

Bridgeport officials say police are investigating and two people are in custody after a person was shot on the 1200 block of Park Avenue.

A van struck a bridge abutment and caught fire on Route 8 in Trumbull early Wednesday morning, officials said.