Mayor Joe Ganim and police officials on Thursday opened the city’s latest police post in a first-floor apartment in the P.T. Barnum housing project, joining posts in Trumbull Gardens, the Greene Homes, University of Bridgeport, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, East Main Street, Stratford Avenue, and John Street Downtown. A ninth police post is planned for […]
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City Opens Police Post In P.T.
August 17th, 2017 · 37 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
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City Tickets Woman $40 For Meter Violation That Wasn’t Her Car
July 10th, 2017 · 1 Comment · News and Events
Another city meter mess. A Stratford woman received a $40 parking ticket for a car that wasn’t hers. It was a municipal vehicle. Oh well, who’s counting? The City Council’s Contracts Committee will weigh a 12-month moratorium for the electronic meters enforcement and collections at its Tuesday meeting.
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Prostitution Intent? Or Was Ethics Commissioner Set Up?
June 28th, 2017 · 18 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
CT Post reporter Dan Tepfer chronicles the bizarre story of city ethics commissioner Noel Kayo’s adventure at a Stratford hotel. Ethics commissioner Dr. Noel Kayo has an ethics dilemma of his own after police said they busted him outside a hotel here for mistaking a local woman for the prostitute he had ordered online.
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Former Councilman Richard Paoletto Back On Payroll
June 19th, 2017 · 14 Comments · News and Events
Former city employee Richard Paoletto, whose son Anthony currently occupies the City Council seat his father maintained for more than a decade, is back working for the Water Pollution Control Authority, according to a report by CT Post reporter Dan Tepfer. A former councilman forced to resign and then to retire from a city post […]
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Diocese Settles Sex Abuse Lawsuits
June 5th, 2017 · 1 Comment · News and Events
From Dan Tepfer, CT Post: The Roman Catholic Diocese has agreed to pay settlements to five men who claimed in lawsuits they were sexually abused as children by four priests in the 1970s and 80s.
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Autopsy Reveals Teen Died From Gunshot Wounds To Chest
May 11th, 2017 · 11 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
From Dan Tepfer, CT Post: UPDATE here. Fifteen-year-old Jayson Negron died from gunshot wounds to the chest the autopsy shows.
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How Many Times Must You Be Arrested For Drunken Driving?
May 9th, 2017 · 1 Comment · Education, News and Events
In 2011, Stephen Wright was a key swing vote in the Connecticut Board of Education’s approval for state control of Bridgeport schools eventually vacated by the state Supreme Court. On Tuesday, finally, he was taken into custody following his fourth arrest, in four months, on drunken driving charges.
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‘Fall Victim Takes Laundromat To The Cleaners’
April 4th, 2017 · 2 Comments · News and Events
This is one of those headlines you wish you had written! Headline and story by Dan Tepfer, CT Post: A local man has been awarded a $400,000 settlement for injuries he sustained when he fell in a Black Rock laundromat four years ago.
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