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Connecticut health officials try to close racial gap in vaccinations Lucy Gagliano, 75, talks after getting a COVID-19 vaccination, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, at Central High School in Bridgeport, Conn. The mass vaccination clinic is one of several ways Bridgeport officials are trying to fight the low vaccination rates many cities across the country are seeing compared with wealthier suburbs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Susan Palaia is vaccinated by firefighter Noam Meir, left, and nurse Carmen Gonzalez, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, at Central High School in Bridgeport, Conn. The mass vaccination clinic is one of several ways Bridgeport officials are trying to fight the low vaccination rates many cities across the country are seeing compared with wealthier suburbs. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ....
An 11-year-old Bridgeport boy called 911 and then began performing CPR on his mother after she was choked into unconsciousness by a man who was already on ....
Published January 21. 2021 9:26PM By DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press HARTFORD Federal prosecutors are no longer seeking the death penalty for a Connecticut drug dealer convicted for his role in the killings of three people beaten to death in a turf dispute over crack cocaine sales. The U.S. attorney s office notified Azibo Aquart s lawyer about its decision late last month, according to a document filed Tuesday in federal court in New Haven. A spokesperson for federal prosecutors in Connecticut had no immediate comment Thursday. Aquart, now 39, was sentenced to death in 2012 for the 2005 killings in Bridgeport, becoming the first federal court defendant in Connecticut to receive the death penalty since federal capital punishment was reinstated in 1988. ....