Brian Lockhart
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Bridgeport, CT, United States
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Bridgeport aims to finally break ground on new Bassick High
City officials said they expect to finally break ground on the new Bassick High School in January and have it open for the 2025/26 school year. → Read More
Bridgeport St. Patrick’s Day parade canceled over COVID concerns
While over two months away, organizers said they are not comfortable hosting the annual... → Read More
Bridgeport amphitheater hosting drive-thru lights festival
With the outdoor concert season over, the venue aims to bring visitors to Bridgeport for... → Read More
Bridgeport council candidate, hospitalized with COVID, still questions vaccine
Wanda Simmons shared her views on her Facebook page while hospitalized with the virus. → Read More
Judge denies bid to block parts of police accountability law
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A federal judge has rejected a bid by the state troopers' union to block parts of a new police accountability law that allows public disclosure of personnel files and internal affairs investigations. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Haight Jr. in New Haven denied the union's request for an injunction in a ruling issued Tuesday. The law approved by Gov. Ned Lamont and… → Read More
Alex Jones accused of selling phony coronavirus cures
NEW YORK (AP) - New York's attorney general is demanding that conspiracy monger Alex Jones stop hawking phony coronavirus treatments. Attorney General Letita James' office sent a cease-and-desist letter Thursday saying it's "extremely concerned" by Jones' claims that toothpaste, dietary supplements, creams, and other products sold on his website can prevent and cure the disease, known as… → Read More
Moore hosts first mayoral fundraiser
BRIDGEPORT - Keith Coote sat at the end of the bar in Metric, the Cannon Street restaurant that has outlasted several other downtown dining destinations, sipping a scotch. "Enough is enough as far as I'm concerned," Coote, 64, said. Coote was among the 55 or so people who turned out Monday night for state Sen. Marilyn Moore's inaugural fundraiser for her mayoral campaign. "Enough is enough"… → Read More
FBI goes back to the future in Bridgeport
BRIDGEPORT - In February 2015, motorists approaching downtown from I-95 southbound were greeted with an FBI-sponsored billboard encouraging potential tipsters with information on corrupt activities to phone a 1-800 number. Four years later, that billboard is long gone, but federal authorities are now in Bridgeport working to uncover municipal wrongdoing. FBI agents have since the fall been… → Read More
New Black Rock light fixtures filling with water
BRIDGEPORT - Did the city spend nearly $544,000 buying and installing fancy fishbowls? Some of the LED decorative light fixtures installed on new poles in the St. Mary's-by-the-Sea neighborhood in Black Rock last year are taking in water. "Walking under all 100 plus new lights ... I found more lights holding rain water inside their glass shades than 2 weeks ago," Councilman Peter Spain said over… → Read More
Marilyn Moore to run for Bridgeport mayor
BRIDGEPORT - State Sen. Marilyn Moore announced Monday she is running for mayor of Bridgeport. Long considered a potential Ganim challenger in this year's mayoral race, Moore, 70, announced her decision on Monday. "I declare war on every person and every thing that has kept Bridgeport in bondage, she said. Moore says she will reset and restore Bridgeport. → Read More
FBI interviews Bridgeport public facilities staff
BRIDGEPORT - Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were spotted in City Hall Thursday morning interviewing staff in the public facilities department, multiple sources said. The FBI is believed to be investigating sales of scrap metal for cash by some city employees. The money was being quietly kept in an off-the-books petty cash fund in public facilities. John Ricci, a veteran city… → Read More
Ganim: State to help pay for Congress St. Bridge
BRIDGEPORT - The state will help Mayor Joe Ganim keep a promise to open the long-shuttered Congress Street Bridge. Ganim's office announced late Thursday that the Department of Transportation "has made a commitment" to foot half of the estimated $24 million tab for the bridge connecting the downtown to the East Side across the Pequonnock River. The state's portion includes $3.7 million… → Read More
Stallworth considering run against Ganim
BRIDGEPORT - Charlie Stallworth, pastor and state representative, sat Tuesday afternoon on a cushioned bench at the front of his East End Baptist Tabernacle Church. At a wooden podium a few feet away and four years ago, on New Year's Day 2015, then-ex-Mayor Joe Ganim delivered his first public apology for his pay-to-play corruption that ended Ganim's first administration in 2003. "He stood right… → Read More
City focuses on improving life at Greene Homes
BRIDGEPORT - A tenant living on the fifth floor of Greene Homes has tried to bring a bit of the holidays to their little corner of the troubled public housing project. They hung a small Christmas wreath on their door with a sticker - "Give thanks" - next to it. Walking the site, one can appreciate that person's ability to remain thankful given their living conditions. Even with the brighter,… → Read More
Housing board election chaos
BRIDGEPORT - Last week, Bettie Cook, a longtime activist who typically takes the city's public housing commission members to task from the sidelines, sat among them for the first time. Cook, 75, is the new tenant commission member and will help oversee personnel, approve budgets and make other big decisions affecting herself and the 11,999 other people living in Park City Communities - the… → Read More
Ganim plans new scrap metal policy
BRIDGEPORT - As questions mount about municipal employees selling scrap metal for thousands of dollars in cash, and where that money went, Mayor Joe Ganim said he will implement tighter restrictions "to prevent the mishandling or misappropriation of city property." But specific details about a new policy were not immediately provided by Ganim's office Friday. "Anything short of full compliance… → Read More
Bridgeport woman pleads guilty to health care fraud
BRIDGEPORT - Toshirea Jackson, 49, of Bridgeport pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to one count of health care fraud. According to the Office of the United States Attorney District of Connecticut, Jackson billed Medicaid for psychotherapy services that she never provided through a pair of Fairfield Avenue social and psychotherapy services - Transitional Development and Training and… → Read More
Delay on Metro-North in Darien
DARIEN - Metro-North has reported there is a delay on the New Haven Line Thursday night "due to police activity in/near Darien." No further information is available. → Read More
Documents detail $35,500 in off-the-books scrap sales
BRIDGEPORT - From October 2016 through this past October, employees with the city's Public Facilities Department sold nearly $35,500 worth of scrap metal, according to documents recently obtained by Hearst Connecticut Media. What happened to those profits - paid in cash - is the question. There is an ongoing investigation by police and Mayor Joe Ganim's administration into alleged improper scrap… → Read More
Bridgeport sticks with Hartford lobbyists
BRIDGEPORT - Connecticut's government - particularly the man at the top - is changing, but the state's largest city is sticking with its lobbyist in Hartford. The City Council's Contracts Committee Tuesday unanimously agreed to pay Reynolds Strategy Group $45,000 to continue representing Bridgeport's interests at the Capitol in the coming legislative session as new Governor Ned Lamont crafts his… → Read More