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Alex N GecanStaff Writer

Gecan covers breaking and other news for the Connecticut Post. Before coming to Bridgeport he spent two years covering the city of Middletown for Digital First Media and another year reporting on the city of Stamford for the Post’s...

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A rally for Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump drew hundreds of supporters and scores of protesters to the Klein Auditorium Saturday.

Bridgeport protesters: Trump inexperienced, perverted

April 23, 2016

A car fire slowed traffic on Interstate 95 southbound in Stamford on Tuesday.

Darien car fire slows I-95 traffic

April 5, 2016

Tatyana Gloria Reyes, 8, of Bridgeport, draws while at the Arcade Mall’s Fan Fest which was held to welcome visitors attending the NCAA Basketball Championship at the Arena at Harbor Yard in downtown Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday March 26, 2016. Activities included music by DJ Bongo Joe and his live band Off the Hook, face painting, caricatures, and food was provided from several downtown restaurants.

Arena crowd trickles into downtown Bridgeport

March 26, 2016

Francis Manigault of New York pleaded guilty to federal charges related to armed robberies in Bridgeport and Stamford.

A week of crime gets robber 14 years in prison

February 24, 2016

Shelton police have filed new charges against two burglary suspects.

Shelton burglary suspects charged again

February 19, 2016

A red-tailed hawk, one of a pair that nests near the playing fields behind Greenwich High School, on the hunt around the ball fields at the school on Wednesday.

Man kills hawks for preying on his racing pigeons

February 18, 2016

Traffic cameras show congestion around a tractor trailer rollover on Interstate 95 northbound. The crash happened near New Haven but traffic is backed up down to Milford.

New Haven truck rollover stalls I95 for miles

February 16, 2016

Fire officials said that a house fire at 40 and 42 Harral Ave. began in a wall on the first floor before spreading to the third. Firefighters were on the scene within three minutes and had squelched the blaze within 15.

10 homeless after Bridgeport house fire

February 13, 2016

Police on the scene of a shooting in Bridgeport at the corner of Stratford and Connecticut avenues.

Bridgeport’s first 2016 homicide ID’d

February 12, 2016

State troopers are seeking leads in an armed robbery at an Oxford Road Sunoco.

State troopers seek Oxford armed robber

February 11, 2016

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