Two people suffered non-life threatening injuries when numerous shots were fired early Saturday morning near Trumbull Avenue in Bridgeport.

Felix Narvaez, 55, was sentenced in Bridgeport federal court Thursday after being caught with a gun and cocaine. He was previously convicted of several felonies.

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A 4-year-old girl was hospitalized with critical injuries after she was struck by a Bridgeport police cruiser that was responding to a call Wednesday night, according to the city’s public information officer. The crash happened around 9:36 p.m. Wednesday night on Hanover street. The officer driving the cruiser was responding to a report of a mob attacking a woman at Went Field Park when the police cruiser struck the child., according to the city. The girl, who lives with he

New details released by the Office of Inspector General show a Bridgeport police officer tried to use a Taser on a man before authorities say the man fired several shots through a door at officers, prompting another officer to return fire. Bridgeport police officers were called to Grand Street shortly after midnight on Wednesday for a report of a fight in the street. Officers tried to speak with 53-year-old Robert Martins, who then ran through a side door of a three-family home at 6

Police body camera video and information from the Office of the Inspector Generals' preliminary investigation into the shooting on Grand Street was released Friday.

Bridgeport police are investigating after a dead body was found in a burned car Thursday morning. Officials said that the police department received numerous 911 calls around 11 a.m. reporting a car on fire at the entrance to Elton Rogers Woodland Park on Frenchtown Road. The location was in the north end of the city near the border with Trumbull. When first responders got to the scene, firefighters found a body burned “beyond recognition” in the driver’s seat

Nearly 300 teachers and positions were cut in budgets, leaving schools to start the school year with fewer educators, according to data by the Connecticut Education Association (CEA). According to available data collected in June, about 97 teachers were slated to be laid off, and 174 positions were slated to be eliminated through attrition, meaning retirements and resignations. The data did not include numbers from the state’s biggest cities, Bridgeport, New Haven, or Hartford,

A group of Bridgeport police officers and federal agents discovered a large quantity of drugs at “stash house” on Ohio Avenue Wednesday night.

The burned car was located at the entrance of Elton Rogers Woodland Park. Police said the person's cause and manner of death remain under investigation.