Bridgeport police found Harold Clarke Sr. dead Friday after a marshal told them he didn't appear at his scheduled sentencing for a sexual assault conviction.

The man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man found outside a multi-family house in Bridgeport earlier this month.

A man who is suspected of murder in Bridgeport is in custody. Police said Dante French, 20, of Bridgeport, is suspected of shooting and killing Derek Martin and he turned himself in to the Bridgeport Police Department on Friday.

BRIDGEPORT — A former city assistant fire chief convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2022 did not appear in court for his scheduled sentencing Friday. Later in the day, a city official said the defendant, Harold Clarke Sr., was involved in "an incident" that occurred Friday.

A former Bridgeport fire official has died and police are conducting an untimely death investigation. The police department said Harold Clarke Sr. was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning, but he didn’t show up.

State officials plan to keep a close eye on the Bridgeport school system as district leaders move forward with layoffs amid a $32 million shortfall.

Bridgeport city councilman Alfredo Castillo was referred to state prosecutors on Tuesday for potential criminal charges related to allegedly registering a non U.S. citizen to vote in the city’s 2023 Democratic primary and filling out an absentee ballot in that person’s name.

Bridgeport leaders are working together with mayors and superintendents from Connecticut’s largest cities – Hartford, New Haven, Stamford and Waterbury.

Swanston, a graduate of Hotchkiss and UConn who sold his company for nine figures in 2020, joined CT Mirror for 'This Could Work.'

A program to help new moms and babies ease from hospital to home, a joint effort between Bridgeport Hospital and the state, is reaching the end of its first, successful year. “Postpartum is such a tender time and there’s so much going on,

Another piece of the statute, added last year, may be further making cannabis real estate a tough business to be in. As of 2024, illegal cannabis sales are a violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, with fines established for anyone who aids and abets those illegal sales, including landlords.

Dante French, 20, of Bridgeport, was charged with murder in the fatal Jan. 9 shooting of Derek Martin, 48, of Bridgeport, officials said.