NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Fairfield University assistant coach Patrick Sellers has been hired as the head men's basketball coach at Central Connecticut, his alma mater.

Sellers returns to school where he was a team captain as a player in 1991 and began his coaching career as an assistant in 1999, helping the Blue Devils to NCAA Tournament bids in 2000 and 2002...

A person interrupted a video conference meeting of a racial equity task force in Fairfield, Connecticut, with racist slurs, including some directed at Black members of the group, police said Friday...

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — More than 200 people gathered in Connecticut on Saturday to denounce increasing attacks on Asian Americans around the country...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut prosecutors have added hate crime and other charges against a white woman who spat on a Black woman during protests at the state Capitol in January, Hartford State's Attorney Sharmese Walcott announced Thursday...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police department is being sued over the 2019 shooting death of a 70-year-old woman by her ex-husband, on allegations officers could have prevented the killing...

Fairfield (6-15, 6-10) vs. Monmouth (10-7, 10-6)

OceanFirst Bank Center, West Long Branch, New Jersey; Friday, 5 p...

Iona (1-2, 0-0) vs. Fairfield (0-4, 0-0)

Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Friday, 7 p...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Three people were killed when a helicopter contracted by Pacific Gas & Electric struck one of the utility's power lines and crashed into a Northern California hillside on Tuesday, igniting a grass fire and knocking out electricity to thousands of customers, officials said...

The majestic 2.15-acre property on Greenfield Hill’s most iconic street is surrounded by multi-million dollar homes. Famed architect Cameron Clark designed a barn on the stunning property and it was meticulously renovated in 2008.

WESTPORT — A Fairfield woman was recently arrested after allegedly filling fraudulent prescriptions, according to town police.

Kristin Futia, 37, was charged with two counts of second-degree forgery...

FAIRFIELD - A woman was seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident at North Benson Road and Post Road on Tuesday night.

At 9:14 p.m., Fairfield's Emergency Communications Center received more than a dozen 911 calls on the crash...

UPDATE: 6 P.M.

At 6 p.m., the National Weather Service updated the information about the approaching thunderstorm.

Now, winds could reach up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail is possible...

FAIRFIELD — The power outage that left more than 1,000 United Illuminating customers in the dark Wednesday morning was apparently caused by a squirrel.

UI reported 1,177 customers in the Greenfield Hill area out of power around 8 a...

ALBANY, N.Y. — They came so close.

Heading into the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament, forward Jonathan Kasibabu said that Fairfield was on a mission, a mission to get Tyler Nelson a championship...

FAIRFIELD — Once every 100 years a mysterious village appears from the misty moors of Scotland in the Broadway musical and feature film “Brigadoon.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Brigadoon as “a place that is idyllic, unaffected by time...

DARIEN — Eric Cimino and Brendan Knightly scored in the final 5:42 to propel the New Canaan High School boys ice hockey team to a 5-4 non-league triumph over Notre Dame-Fairfield Saturday night at the Darien ice rink...

Editor's note: This is the final story in a three part series on vaccinations.

FAIRFIELD — Two turkeys arrived Wednesday afternoon at Joan Poster’s home, but they weren’t there to grace Poster’s Thanksgiving table.

Poster, a well-known local veterinarian, is a vegetarian, and the two turkeys — John and Ringo — were part of a quartet of injured birds rescued from Yellville, Arkansas’ annual and infamous turkey drop...

FAIRFIELD — Police investigating a sexual assault reported by the St. Vincent’s Medical Center emergency department early Sunday morning have been stymied by the victim, a student at Fairfield University...

Little known on Fairfield dog attackJust days ago, in Fairfield, a fifth-grader walked up to a Stratfield Road house and entered a gated yard hoping he could sell items for a school fundraiser...

NEW FAIRFIELD — Three of Connecticut’s federal lawmakers have sent a letter to immigration authorities urging them to allow a Guatemalan man facing deportation to stay in the country while he tries to get legal status.

Nearly 100 people showed up in Hartford on Thursday to support Joel Colindres, a Guatemalan immigrant living in New Fairfield with his wife, Samantha, a U.S. citizen, and their two children.

FAIRFIELD—Police reminded residents Wednesday to lock their cars and keep their keys with them.

Some 35 cars have been reported stolen since April 1, according to police. Another 107 have been reported burglarized.

FAIRFIELD — Thanks to a little small ball and a little bit of long ball, Fairfield Prep put its opening-round Class LL victory in the books.

Chris Rotondo homered, Will Lucas had an RBI triple and the No...

FAIRFIELD — Even when it doesn’t all go according to plan, Fairfield Prep manages to somehow find a way.

The Jesuits fell behind twice, rallied twice to take the lead, added some insurance runs and then almost gave it all away before Shelton left the bases loaded in the top of the seventh, as Prep won its fifth straight, hanging on to defeat the Gaels 7-6 in a back and forth affair Friday afternoon at Alumni Diamond...

FAIRFIELD - To avoid overcrowding and to “maintain public safety,” parking restrictions will be in place near Penfield Beach during Fairfield University’s Clam Jam on Saturday.

The department posted on its Facebook page that “streets leading to the beach south of Quincy street will be posted as temporary no parking/tow zones from 10 a.m.

SOFTBALL

Sacred Heart 11, Fairfield 5: Fallon Bevino, of Milford, went 3-for-5, including a two-run double and a two-run home run, with two runs scored, Andrea Sidor went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and one run scored and Hailey Desrosiers had two hits and scored three runs in the win for the Pioneers (13-21), while Hannah Futo hit a three-run single, Courtney Hankins went 2-for-3 with two RBIs and one run scored and Amanda Ulzheimer had two hits and scored two runs in the loss for the Stags (18-22).

FAIRFIELD — Just barely two weeks ago, senior Charlie Capalbo was in goal for the Fairfield co-op hockey team, making 27 saves in a 5-2 Division I tournament loss to West Haven, playing with what pretty much everyone thought was at best a cold, or at worst, the flu.

Notre Dame-Fairfield advanced to the Class L boys basketball championship with an 81-61 victory over Wilton on Thursday night at Warde.

Notre Dame will play the winner of Sacred Heart-Middletown on Sunday night at 5:30 p.m.

MANCHESTER — He had spent the first three quarters fulfilling the “team-first” mentality that has carried East Catholic throughout an impressive regular season and deep into the postseason.

Mike McGuirl was assigned to guard Fairfield Prep swingman John Kelly and over the first half, McGuirl had limited Kelly to just two points as the Eagles opened a commanding halftime lead.