Crime
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Trial for suspect in McHenry County deputy's killing set to begin Monday in federal courtMar 27, 2022 1:00 am - The federal murder trial of a Springfield man accused of the 2019 killing of a McHenry County sheriff's deputy who was gunned down while serving an arrest warrant at a R...
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Police pursuing 'multiple credible leads' in Rosemont mall shootingMar 27, 2022 1:00 am - Rosemont police continue to pursue leads in connection with Friday night's shooting that left one man dead and a teenage girl wounded at the Fashion Outlets of Chicago m...
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Justice Thomas' wife long steeped in conservative politics
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Through a decades-long career in conservative politics, Virginia Thomas has repeatedly maintained that her political activities posed no conflict of in...
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Takeaways: Civil rights, Trump close out Jackson hearing
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The historic Senate hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the Supreme Court, have been joyful, combative and cl...
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US Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska announces resignation
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska on Saturday resigned from office after a California jury convicted him of lying to federal authoriti...
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Black women feel sting of 'traumatizing' Jackson hearings
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - 'œSenator,'ť she said, letting out an audible sigh. In that singular moment, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke for countless Black women ...
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Live updates: Man detained at site of Lviv rocket attacks
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - LVIV, Ukraine - The governor of the Lviv region says a man was detained on suspicion of espionage at the site of one of the two rocket attacks that rattled the city on S...
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Kidd Creole's murder trial opens with self-defense claim
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The trial of rapper Kidd Creole has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless...
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'Gargantuan task': Why India's renewable push will be hard
Mar 26, 2022 7:00 am - NAGAON, India (AP) - Plans to build a sprawling solar park on land cultivated for generations by indigenous farmers in India's Himalayan foothills erupted in violent cla...
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Batavia woman charged with felony burglary
Mar 26, 2022 1:00 am - A Batavia woman was charged with felony burglary of a house for sale in the 300 block of McKee Street, according to police and court records. Tamara C. Schmidt, 47, of t...