A 17-year-old and 13-year-old from Bridgeport were arrested after Stratford police said they stole a car with a 3-year-old in the back seat Wednesday.

Bridgeport Public Schools released guidance Tuesday saying federal immigration authorities are prohibited from entering its buildings without prior permission.

Connecticut’s top education official plans to ask the state Board of Education on Wednesday for the authority to intervene in the city’s struggling school system, including the power to approve the appointment of a new superintendent.

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State police said the 70-year-old driver struck a Toyota Corolla head-on, which was then rear-ended by a vehicle behind it.

Nearly all of Bridgeport's 20,000 students are identified as "high-needs." Local board members have clashed over how to serve them.

The Bridgeport school district is facing a deficit of $38 million. The state announced its plans to assist the district with a focus on the well-being of students.

A man involved in a high-profile murder case in Bridgeport from the 1990s was among the hundreds of convicts granted clemency by former President Joe Biden. Adrian

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Relatives of an 8-year-old boy and his mother who were murdered by a Connecticut drug gang are outraged that a man convicted in the killings was one of nearly 2,500 people whose drug-related prison sentences were commuted by former President Joe Biden in his last days in office.

In the final moments of his presidency, Biden commuted a federal drug sentence for Adrian Peeler, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the deaths of Karen Clarke and BJ Brown.