FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Waterbury woman was arrested in Fairfield Saturday night after she broke her boyfriend’s car window with her bare hands outside a Post Road bookstore, police said.The 31-year-old woman had been waiting for her boyfriend to come home to watch their one-year-old son, so she could go visit her sister, police said.When he didn’t arrive at home, she did a search of his ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A young visitor to Beardsley Zoo got a little closer to the wildlife than she’d hoped Sunday when a South American rodent bit her finger through a gap in a Rainforest Building enclosure.The small covered gap that fell off of a glass barrier left just enough room for the red-rumped agouti, similar to a guinea pig, to reach the toddler’s tiny finger, said Zoo Director ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A driver who told emergency personnel he was “God” and had taken “every drug in the book” was sent to the hospital late Friday after he ran his car into a tree, police said.Just before midnight, the driver was heading down Cornell Road and turning onto Melville Avenue when he struck the tree, police said.The car came to rest in the parking lot of Fairfield Warde High ...

DANBURY, Conn. — Two people were sent to the hospital with burns after a car rolled over and exploded early Saturday in Danbury, according to fire officials.The Danbury Fire Department A shift companies were dispatched to the area of 167 Long Ridge Road at around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday for a report of a motor vehicle accident with an explosion. Units arrived to find a car totally ...

DANBURY, Conn. — A family was displaced early Saturday when a basement fire caused damage to their Padanaram Road home, according to Danbury fire officials.Firefighters were called to the home just before 7:30 a.m. on a report of smoke in the basement along with the odor of gas, said James Gagliardo, the department’s public information officer.Units quickly located the source and ...

DANBURY, Conn. — Penelope Forman, president of Danbury-based Penn Gardner Inc, has been elected to the board of directors of TBICO, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help people help themselves through education, job training and financial literacy.The announcement was made by Louann Bloomer, TBICO’s founder, CEO and president. “We pleased to welcome Penelope to our board of ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Fairfield restaurant and its owner must pay $244,930 in back wages and liquidated damages to eight employees as part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.Division investigators found that Vinny’s of Fairfield Inc. – which does business as Vinny’s Ale House – and owner Ernst H. Buggisch failed to pay required overtime to ...

STRATFORD, Conn. — Stratford police have arrested two Bridgeport residents in connection with voter fraud during the town’s mayoral election.Troy Stevenson, 56, and Betty Chappell, 56, were both arrested on warrants for applying for absentee ballots during the November election, police said.The investigation began when the Town Clerk’s Office noticed some discrepancies in absentee ...

SHELTON, Conn. — Shelton police have arrested a juvenile for a hit-and-run car crash that caused a chemical spill that took weeks to clean up, according to the Connecticut Post.The crash took place near Suren Lane and Poplar Drive on Nov. 5, the Post said.The minor was charged with evading responsibility, the Post said.Click here to read the full Connecticut Post story.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A trio of Massachusetts tourists found inside the shuttered and soon-to-be-renovated Majestic Theater was arrested Thursday morning, the Connecticut Post reported.Police found Ryan Mello, 33, of Quincy, and Joseph Mollica, 21, of Berlin, in the darkened theater’s lobby, the Post said.John Mooney, 35, of Taunton, was hiding in the balcony, the Post said.Each was ...