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Restaurant With Bridgeport Location Wins National 'Best Traditional Hot Wing' Award Restaurant With Bridgeport Location Wins National 'Best Traditional Hot Wing' Award
Restaurant With Bridgeport Location Wins National 'Best Traditional Hot Wing' Award A Fairfield County restaurant won first place in the "Best Traditional Hot Wing" category at this year's National Buffalo Wing Festival. This year's festival was held on Saturday, Sept. 3, and Sunday, Sept. 4, at the Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, which is located in the Southtowns of the Buffalo metropolitan area. The event featured wing eating competitions, "bobbing for wings," live music, and more. During the festival, the National Buffalo Wing Festival also announced the 2022 restaurant winners in various categories, such as "Best Creative Sweet Wing" and "Best Dry Rub Win…

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by Nicole Valinote
Police & Fire
32-Year-Old Charged For Late September Murder In Bridgeport 32-Year-Old Charged For Late September Murder In Bridgeport
32-Year-Old Charged For Late September Murder In Bridgeport A Bridgeport man has been arrested for the September murder of another man who was gunned down on a city street. Ricardo Torres, 32, was arrested Tuesday, Oct. 20 by Detective Robert Winkler for the Sept. 24 murder of Jorge Tirado on Fox Street, said Lt. Christopher LaMaine. Tirado, 36, was found slumped over the wheel of a vehicle that had crashed into a tree in Black Rock, around 8 a.m. by police in the area of Fox Street and Canfield Avenue. He had been shot twice in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.  Torres was charged with murder, criminal possession of a…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
14-Year-Old Takes Police On Wild Chase Through Bridgeport 14-Year-Old Takes Police On Wild Chase Through Bridgeport
14-Year-Old Takes Police On Wild Chase Through Bridgeport A 14-year-old teen is in custody following a wild car chase through Bridgeport after police spotted him driving a vehicle stolen in an armed home invasion. The chase took place around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday after patrol units spotted the unidentified teen driving the tan Buick Century that was stolen Monday during the course of an armed home invasion, said Av Harris, spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department. Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but instead, the teen took officers on a chase through the Hollow area of the city, into downtown that ultimately ended in the Black Rock secti…

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by Kathy Reakes
Weather
The Weather Outside Is Frightful -- And Here's Proof From Bridgeport The Weather Outside Is Frightful -- And Here's Proof From Bridgeport
The Weather Outside Is Frightful -- And Here's Proof From Bridgeport BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Wind gusts are in the 40-45 mph range in some spots in Fairfield County, but that didn’t stop Courtney Lewis from heading out to capture today’s winter storm in Bridgeport's Black Rock neighborhood. It’s a snow lover’s paradise out there, folks! Send your photos of conditions in your neck of the woods -- and let us know where that is -- to mguinness@dailyvoice.com and we’ll post them on our Fairfield County sites.

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by Meredith Guinness