Power move: Republicans have little weight in Springfield, but their walkout grated on Democrats who accused them of shirking their jobs to represent constituents.

Judge Carl Nichols temporarily blocked plans to put 2,200 employees on paid leave and recall nearly all agency workers abroad ...

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...

The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the ...

A man who hit a stopped school bus in a 2022 crash that killed two of his friends has pleaded guilty to committing reckless ...

One of the suspects in a 2020 Boulder Hill drive-by shooting has been found guilty by a Kendall County jury. 31-year-old James E. Brown of North Aurora was convicted Thursday in the deaths of mother ...

Women represent half of the U.S. population but it’s still rare for them to have leading roles in setting taxes or budgets in some states. Take Mississippi, for ...

An Elkhart man was sentenced in federal court to 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking offense. Adam ...

Pfizer Settles Its Subsidiary’s Kickback Allegations for Nearly $60 Million - Pfizer Inc. agreed to pay over $59,746,277 to ...

Reporters identified almost 5,000 incidents in which people experiencing mental health crises had non-fatal force used ...

All four substances that the Food Safety Act proposes banning have been outlawed in Europe and Australia for decades.