UPDATE A suspect sought in a wave of break-ins this week while residents were sleeping and 14 vehicles rifled was arrested tonight in Norwalk, police said. Police earlier had said Xavier Medel, 19, of ...

Actress and singer Eartha Kitt died today at her Weston home, a family spokeswoman said. She was 81. Kitt, a frequent performer at the Westport Country Playhouse and visitor to Westport, had been ...

More than 80 persons attended today’s jazz concert at the Westport Arts Center. “This is the first time we’ve ever held a combined jazz concert and education event,” said Richard Epstein, the center’s ...

Gordon F. Joseloff, editor and publisher of WestportNow, former Westport first selectman and an award-winning veteran journalist who reported from London, Moscow, Tokyo, and other world capitals for ...

TEAM Westport — the town’s committee on multiculturalism — today honored three individuals with the second annual Trailblazer Diversity Awards for their lifelong contribution to promoting human rights ...

Photographer Susan Fisher Plotner addresses guests at a Westport Library reception tonight marking the opening of an exhibit of her photographs, “Everyday Landscapes.” Plotner, who grew up in Westport ...

Westport-based Pequot Capital Management, a superpowerful $7 billion hedge fund that is one of the nation’s largest, today announced that it has expanded its investment management team by adding two ...

Jeff Pegues, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent based in Washington, D.C., was among those inducted tonight into the Staples High School Football Wall of Fame. His plaque cited the ...

A gala goodbye party will be held Sunday at Westport’s Peppermill Steak and Fish House on the Post Road East, marking another change in the town’s ever-evolving landscape. The family style restaurant ...

The owners of the house at 349 Wilton Road are the newest recipients of a Westport Historical Society (WHS) historical plaque. Bob Weingarten, WHS plaque historian, presented the plaque to Kris Toohey ...

President Obama today nominated Westporter James B. Comey as the next FBI director. His wife Patrice and five children were front row guests in the White House Rose Garden. If confirmed by the Senate, ...

Geoffrey K. Ferguson, a former Westporter convicted of killing five people at a house he owned in Redding in 1995, took his own life today by strangling himself in his Newtown prison cell, according ...