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.

Helena Greenleaf of Thompson, Connecticut, won a $1 million-dollar prize from a "$2,500,000 Merry & Bright" lottery ticket purchased in Auburn, Massachusetts.

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

Two Connecticut Lottery tickets won big prizes in recent Powerball drawings. A Windsor Locks resident claimed $100,000 in winnings, and another won $150,000.

St. Vincent's Medical Center received a donation of new sweatsuits and undergarments for those who go to the hospital for sexual assault exams.

State Democratic Party leaders have told their Bridgeport counterparts to replace the treasurer because she lives out of town.

In this year's ranking, small towns in the Northeast dominated for the second year in a row, including four in Connecticut: Stamford in third place, Bridgeport in fifth place, New Haven in eighth place and Waterbury in ninth place.

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