Bridgeport

A judge on Wednesday denied the state’s request to detain a school bus aide who allegedly left a firearm on a Chicago Public Schools bus, where a special needs student found it and fired a shot Monday afternoon.

Two suburban men used a ruse about construction work to get inside an elderly woman’s Bridgeport home to steal money and jewelry from right under her nose, prosecutors say. Now, one of them has been locked up to await trial, while the other is on an ankle monitor.

Chicago police issued a community alert warning of a series of home break-ins reported over the past two weeks in the Bridgeport neighborhood. In each case, the prowler forced an apartment door open and stole property from inside.

Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information that helps identify the crew responsible for killing a 26-year-old man during a violent auto-theft encounter in Bridgeport last year.

Cook County Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 reward to help Chicago police catch the three men who pistol-whipped and robbed a father in front of a young child on Halloween afternoon in Bridgeport.

In an infuriating video obtained by CWBChicago, three armed men are seen pistol-whipping, robbing, and carjacking a man at gunpoint seconds after he helped the young girl out of his car for Halloween trick-or-treating in Bridgeport on Friday afternoon.

A man and woman were found shot to death inside an SUV that apparently sat unnoticed in a Bridgeport intersection for up to 20 minutes before police discovered their bodies Friday evening.

A 64-year-old man has been detained after allegedly firing a gun at another driver’s car during a road-rage encounter on the outbound Dan Ryan Expressway.

A Des Plaines man accused of a violent robbery and attempted kidnapping that was caught on video in Bridgeport two years ago has been given a five-year prison sentence.

A woman was shot Tuesday evening while traveling in a car through Bridgeport, apparently the unintended victim of a gunman who opened fire during a confrontation nearby.

A 31-year-old woman was fatally shot Saturday evening during an attempted robbery in Bridgeport, Chicago police said.