05/05/12 The Raw Bridgeport News Feed

Bridgeport, CT News Wire...

• Romanian man sentenced for ATM-skimming scheme _{2012-05-05, 12:46 pm}
  ... Preda, was also sentenced to five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. Preda and others involved in the ...
• Darcy Davis, retired Agawam High School Band director, to be inducted into Buglers Hall of Fame _{2012-05-05, 11:33 am}
  ... Davis is due to be inducted into the Buglers Hall of Fame during a ceremony April 21 at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport, Conn. "It doesn't come to many," Davis said of the honor during a recent interview at the Senior Center, where he runs a music ...
• Protest planned to keep popular Peer to Peer program at Central High _{2012-05-05, 11:26 am}
  ... by the Regional Youth and Adults Substance Abuse Program, a local social service agency, found that 27 percent of Bridgeport teens reported drinking alcohol in the last 30 days and one in five reported consuming five drinks in a row. Nearly one in ...
• Sidewalk Trips Cost Taxpayers Big Bucks _{2012-05-05, 10:09 am}
  ... have learned the City of Hartford paid $398,249 settling the lawsuits during the past two years. The City of Bridgeport spent $361,550 in settlements closed since 2009. The City of New Haven said its sidewalk settlements since fiscal year 2009 have ...
• Morris Group Division Appoints New Regional Sales Manager _{2012-05-05, 03:26 am}
  ... Founded in 1941, The Robert E. Morris Company is the exclusive distributor of Okuma, Tsugami, Hardinge and Bridgeport machine tools as well as Trumpf TruMark marking lasers in New England, Northern New Jersey, and Eastern New York State including ...
• Romanian man sentenced for ATM-skimming scheme _{2012-05-05, 02:51 am}
  ... Preda, was also sentenced to five years of supervised release by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. Preda and others involved in the ...
• SUV hits, injures kids in Bridgeport _{2012-05-05, 01:05 am}
  Two children were injured, one reportedly with life-threatening injuries, Friday night when the bicycle they were riding was struck by a sport utility vehicle near the corner of Barnum and Central avenues.
• The WilliesTIMES Square Bomb is a Puzzler _{2012-05-05, 12:49 am}
  ... investigators that the plates were taken from another vehicle left there for repairs. CNN reports that a nearby Bridgeport, Conn., used car lot may have owned the car, but that factoid was not confirmed. Since the events described happened after ...
• Connecticut Chevrolet dealer sued for canning Marine Reservist after he enlists _{2012-05-04, 11:53 pm}
  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- An 18-year-old US Marines reservist is suing a Connecticut car dealership for stalling his dream of becoming a car mechanic by firing him after he enlisted, according to his attorney.
• Post Road tanning salon robbed at gunpoint _{2012-05-04, 11:51 pm}
  ... Police initially detained a man near the corner of Fox Street and Fairfield Avenue, just over the town line in Bridgeport, but he was released after officers determined he was not the suspect. "The description is similar to that of the Adam's Bakery ...
• Home invasion case nets 8-year jail term _{2012-05-04, 10:01 pm}
  Wicky Guy Austin McGhee, 46, of Bridgeport, who was arrested in 2008 in connection with a Greenwich home invasion and a string of thefts from parked cars during the summer of 2009, was sentenced last month at state Superior Court in Stamford to a total of eight years in jail.
• Fairfield tanning salon robbed at gunpoint _{2012-05-04, 10:01 pm}
  ... Police initially detained a man near the corner of Fox Street and Fairfield Avenue, just over the town line in Bridgeport, but he was released after officers determined he was not the suspect. "The description is similar to that of the Adam's Bakery ...
• Craft fair to benefit ailing child _{2012-05-02, 03:00 am}
  A benefit craft fair and tag sale is planned to support the Riveras of Bridgeport as the family helps their daughter Nayelis Rivera battle leukemia.
• Bluefish extend winning streak _{2012-05-01, 03:00 am}
  The Bridgeport Bluefish extended the teams' winning streak to four straight after defeating the York Revolution by a score of 8-2 at Sovereign Bank Stadium on Friday Night.
• Bridgeport cops make burglary, robbery arrests _{2012-05-04, 09:05 pm}
  Five city men who police said are responsible for a string of crimes in the North End were arrested this week, and police hope the busts will put a stop to a rash of robberies and burglaries.
• Grant, summit to address Bridgeport gun violence _{2012-05-04, 09:04 pm}
  Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch will join forces with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, prosecutors, clergy, police, community leaders, and average taxpayers in an attempt to stop the recent escalation of gun violence in Bridgeport, the state's largest city.
• No public money for Shakespeare Theater _{2012-05-04, 09:04 pm}
  ... er with Shakespearean performances merely part of the mix. Alas, like its counterparts on Main Street in downtown Bridgeport -- the Loew's Poli and Majestic theaters -- the Stratford Shakespeare Theater has outlived its usefulness.
• Man Sentenced In Greenwich ATM Skimming Scheme _{2012-05-04, 08:37 pm}
  A David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Ion Preda, also known as "Mircea Preda," 23, a citizen of Romania, was sentenced Friday by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, time served, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a ... (more)
• Michael J. Daly: Tragedy, reaction depressingly familiar _{2012-05-04, 07:37 pm}
  ... that's when a bullet hit the little girl in the mouth, knocking her off the bike and turning a spring night in Bridgeport's Father Panik Village into a bloodbath. Just before the shooting, two of the kids who'd been sharing the bike saw trouble ...
• Council must reduce tax hike _{2012-05-04, 07:36 pm}
  ... city, by the way -- and, arguably, its most unwieldy. Though the route he picked -- disbanding the elected Bridgeport Board of Education -- was ruled illegal, Finch can't be faulted for declaring the overhaul of Bridgeport's failing school system as ...