Fairfield

Fairfield police have started a hate-crime investigation after someone made disparaging and racist remarks during the Racial Equity and Justice Task Force’s video conference meeting Thursday night, police said. The meetings are open to the public and someone who joined the meeting shared his or her screen around 7:30 p.m., showing images of enslaved people, launched racial epithets and...

More than 200 people gathered in Connecticut on Saturday to denounce increasing attacks on Asian Americans around the country. A “Stop Asian Hate” rally was held outside Fairfield Town Hall and included speeches by state Attorney General William Tong, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and other officials and advocates. Members of the crowd held signs saying “Stop the hate! Stop the…

Fire officials are crediting smoke alarms for waking up a family in Fairfield and alerting them to an early morning fire on Tuesday. Dispatchers received a 911 call from the occupants of a home on Birchwood Drive around 4 a.m. saying there was smoke coming from their basement. When fire crews arrived, they said they found heavy smoke coming from…

The principals of Fairfield Ludlowe and Fairfield Warde high schools said some students collaborated to create an NCAA basketball tournament-type bracket for participants to “vote” on their female classmates. The bracket featured names of girls at Ludlowe and Warde in the place where teams would be listed and was posted on social media, school officials said. “We strongly condemn this…

In the wake of the Atlanta-area shootings that killed six Asian women last week, many Asian Americans across the country are coming to terms with the covert, and sometimes overt, racism they’ve experienced over a lifetime. NBCLX contributor Michelle Park spoke to fellow Asian Americans about the pain they’ve experienced over the past year — and why staying silent is...

If you’re driving around Fairfield or really, just keeping your eyes peeled anywhere in the state, you might see hockey sticks out on doorsteps. It’s a nod to Fairfield hockey player Charlie Capalbo… At 22 years old he should be in net for the Fairfield University Club Hockey team. Instead, he’s battling cancer for a third time. “The second...

Firefighters are crediting a smoke detector for waking up residents of a multi-family residence to multiple fires in the home early Thursday morning. Dispatchers received a report from a resident of a fire on the second floor of a three-family home on Black Rock Turnpike around 4:30 a.m. Firefighters responded and said they found two fires in separate locations. Officials…

Yale New Haven Health opened six COVID-19 vaccination sites on Thursday for people 75 and older who qualify under the state’s Phase 1B. Northeast Medical Group (NEMG), 4A Devine Street, North Haven NEMG, 112 Quarry Road, Trumbull NEMG, 501 Kings Highway East, #204, Fairfield NEMG, 500 West Putnam Avenue, Greenwich NEMG,  633 Middlesex Avenue, Old Saybrook NEMG, 194 Howard Street,…

As COVID-19 vaccines roll out, a study has found that they are disproportionately reaching white populations before Black and other minority communities. One of the authors of the Business Insider report, senior healthcare reporter Shelby Livingston, joined LX News to discuss the difference in vaccination rates, and the questions it raises about racial equity.

For many students, the pandemic has meant learning at home in front of a computer.

Five former or current officials of Fairfield, Connecticut, are among several people who have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping of hazardous materials next to the town’s public works garage and efforts to hide the extent of the contamination, according to police. Several of the officials were arrested this past week. The charges are related to a...

Four people were arrested as an investigation into the mismanagement of contaminants at a Fairfield fill pile continues. The arrests come as a part of the investigation into Julian Development on the city’s Department of Public Works property, which started in 2017, police said. Julian Development is a construction material processing facility. The investigation revealed that Julian Development had dumped…

An overturned tractor-trailer shut down a portion of I-95 in Fairfield for several hours Tuesday morning. According to officials, the northbound lanes had been closed between exits 23 and 24 in order to investigate and clean up the debris. Crews were dispatched to the area just before 3 a.m. Investigators say the tractor-trailer was carrying various packages. There are no…

An overturned tractor-trailer has shut down a portion of I-95 in Fairfield Tuesday morning.

Animal control officers in Fairfield euthanized an animal believed to be a younger coyote, but it was later determined that the animal was actually a family’s small dog. Fairfield Police Chief Christopher Lyddy said the animal, which appeared to be in a state of severe distress because of prolonged exposure to adverse weather conditions, was brought to a local...

The 20-year-old junior who was majoring in social work, and whose father was a Port Authority police officer killed on 9/11, died after choking during the charity event in 2017

Sacred Heart University in Fairfield has entered a red COVID-19 alert level as the school has over 200 active cases of coronavirus. Because the school has entered the red COVID-19 alert level, a majority of classes will be completely online through the end of the semester, school officials said. Certain labs and clinical and public school placements may not go…

Fairfield public schools are delaying a return to full-time elementary school as cases of COVID-19 increase. The school district planned to begin full-time elementary school on Nov. 9. However, the coronavirus positivity rate has gone from 1.8 percent on Oct. 4 to 4.1 percent by the end of the week of Oct. 19. Then there was a spoke in cases…

The state of Connecticut’s COVID-19 positivity rate on Tuesday is 4.1 percent. It’s the highest since early june, the governor said.

A Fairfield pub was fined and will have to temporarily close after violating state COVID-19 gathering size restrictions and face-covering guidelines, police said. Police said they received multiple complaints regarding COVID-19 violations occurring at the Brickyard Pub located at 93 Post Rd. Police said they went to the pub late Friday night after health officials observed gathering size and face-covering…