Bridgeport

Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport has two new spider monkeys as part of a program designed to help the endangered species.

A Bridgeport-based child care center responds to a report by the Connecticut Association for Human Services on how staffing shortages are keeping classrooms closed to families who need child care.

Food prices have risen 10% in the U.S. in the last year, making groceries even harder to afford for low-income people. In Connecticut, 12% of residents don’t have access to adequate nutrition. Fridgeport is one of half a dozen community fridges run through mutual aid that have popped in the state in the last few years to help meet that need.

Cities across Connecticut are marking Juneteenth.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was founded in 1871 by P.T. Barnum, a former mayor of Bridgeport. After a five-year hiatus, the circus will go on a national tour to more than 50 cities in fall 2023.

Bridgeport Public Schools’ Board of Education voted on Monday night to give students the day off for the Islamic holiday Eid al-Fitr. The new official school holiday concludes the month of Ramadan and goes into effect during the 2023-2024 school year.

Adger Cowans, 85, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, talks about his career as a photographer and visual artist, the racism he faced and what has motivated him to make art.

HB 5349 – An Act Concerning the Timely Reporting by the Police, was drafted at the request of Lauren Smith-Fields' family, who says Bridgeport Police failed to notify them of her death.

Black police officers represent 15% of the force in Bridgeport. The president of a local chapter of the NAACP says that's not enough to reflect diversity in the community, one that's grappling with controversial investigations into the deaths of two Black women. Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, and Brenda Lee Rawls, 53, were both found dead in Bridgeport on Dec. 12. Their families have since called out the department for the lack of racial sensitivity shown in the investigations.