08/02/10 BRIDGEPORT BRIEFING: The WilliesTIMES Square Bomb is a Puzzler

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The WilliesTIMES Square Bomb is a Puzzler (American Reporter)

The strange car bomb found yesterday evening in Times Square by an alert T-shirt vendor and NYPD cavalry officer is the work of an amateur, it appears; but was it also the work of a bomber? In the cache of explosives police discovered in the car was three propane tanks, two five-gallon plastic gasoline carriers, a metal pot full of fireworks, some ...

Bridgeport church protects the neighborhood through prayer (Connecticut Post)

Members of the Church at the Seaside believe in the power of prayer, even when only a small number of people are asking for the Lord's intercession.

OUR VIEWHartford Schools Gain (The Hartford Courant)

Hartford's schools are showing more progress in the system's climb to academic respectability with the most recent report on the 2010 Connecticut Academic Performance Test, which is administered to 10th graders.

Missing Man Found with Hangover (Westport Now)

R ex Sunday, August 01, 2010 Missing Man Found with Hangover Police said an intoxicated Bridgeport man who went missing at 2 a.m. today following a Saturday night wedding at the Inn at Longshore - and the subject of a CodeRed alert - was discovered with a bad headache at 1 p.m. as he wandered on Wilton Road.

Man gets 10-year jail term for molesting boys in Fairfield, elsewhere (Fairfield Citizen-News)

A Shelton man was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to molest an 11-year-old boy in a Fairfield bathroom and later trying to lure a Bridgeport boy into his truck.

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Shopping for a cause: Operation Hope tag sale continues Sunday (Fairfield Citizen-News)

Chase, owned by Jerry and Pat Litton of Fairfield, was the first canine to donate a dollar to the Operation Hope annual tag sale held at First Church Congregational on Saturday, July 31, 2010.

Police make arrests at Gathering of the Vibes (Connecticut Post)

Police were busy Friday and Saturday at the Gathering of Vibes music festival, arresting 10 people for various illegal acts, including possession of drugs and slapping a police horse in the rear end.