A Pinckneyville Correctional Center acting lieutenant appeared in federal court this week to admit he failed to intervene while his subordinates beat a restrained inmate.

The eighth person arrested in connection to the 2016 shooting of Carbondale Officer Trey Harris has been convicted.

Lawmakers on Thursday approved a proposal that would allow companies to develop new nuclear power generation in Illinois for the first time since 1987.

Charges against a Maquon woman accused of poisoning a former police chief have been reinstated by an appellate court.

In late December, a teenage boy with a broken arm was left to suffer alone in his cell at a youth lockup in rural southern Illinois. Staff were aware he’d been seriously injured; he told them he was in pain and asked to see a doctor. Two hours passed before staff took him to the hospital, during which they cooked and served dinner and took a group of kids for recreation, he claimed.

When Steve Hess learned about a plan to send a $3.4 billion carbon dioxide pipeline through five states —and Hess’ own corn and soybean fields in western Illinois — the 68-year-old farmer knew two things: He knew he would fight the project, which he viewed as a threat to his family’s health, safety and property rights. And he knew it wouldn’t be easy.

An Oregon, IL mother accused of killing her 7-year-old son in 2021 will remain in jail on $2 millon bail as the case against her continues.

With one scheduled day left in the General Assembly’s fall veto session, lawmakers advanced measures that would allow new nuclear power construction in Illinois and usher in the electrification of government vehicles in the next decade. 

Mike Deno called Eighth Circuit Judge Robert Adrian’s explanation for why he reversed his guilty verdict in the Drew Clinton sexual assault trial “not believable,” refuting Adrian’s claim he changed his mind because Clinton wasn’t guilty and instead said Adrian tried to circumvent the law to avoid giving him a mandatory prison sentence.