Bridgeport

To help promote boosters, Juthani, who is an infectious disease physician, administered a booster shot to Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim at the mobile vaccine clinic at the Merton Center.

The center partnered with community groups around Bridgeport to offer bilingual mobile sessions to answer questions about the vaccines for nonnative English speakers.

Disgraced former Bridgeport police chief A.J. Perez has lost his police certification.

Officer Michael Stanitis was fired by the city’s police commission in October of 2020.

Mayor Joe Ganim of Bridgeport announced a series of awards this week to community support organizations across the region.

Small businesses and nonprofits in Bridgeport are getting a boost from $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funds.

Officials in Bridgeport, Connecticut, are struggling to keep promises to reform the police force they made after national protests last year.

Leaders from Bridgeport municipal unions urged Mayor Joe Ganim and the City Council on Wednesday to provide additional pay for their work during the pandemic.

Judge Barry Stevens said the city didn’t follow its own rules, but let former chief Armando Perez choose whoever he wanted for the spot. Perez is now in prison for rigging his own hiring process.

A federal judge ruled this week that the Prayer Tabernacle Church of Love and Cathedral of the Holy Spirit has to vacate its premises and other properties it owns by January 7.