Illinois lawmakers passed a bill in the House that would create stricter hiring processes for police agencies.

Ohio State women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff, the Big Ten’s 2024 coach of the year, was charged with operating a vehicle while impaired last week, police said.

DECATUR — Decatur native Brad Allen has been announced as the next chief of his hometown police department. Allen, who currently serves as deputy chief of administrative operations, has been ...

The Decatur Police Department needs the public's help in locating a person suspected of starting a structure fire, this ...

A 29-year-old man was shot several times as car drove past him Thursday night. A vehicle thought to be involved in the ...

Chicago police responding to a call of a person with a gun in the Hegewisch neighborhood were led on a brief chase and fatally wounded the suspect who opened fire after he crashed in Hammond, ...

More than 150 people attended a town hall meeting Thursday night at Streator High School to discuss recent violence in the ...

Dave Hinton is editor of The News-Gazette's 'Our Communities' section. He can be reached at dhinton@news-gazette.com.

They were farmers, mechanics, carpenters, painters and police officers. They had two cardinal rules in life. The first was to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Saturday, more than 5,000 people participated in the annual Run to Remember to honor fallen police officers. Holding flags and pictures of fallen Chicago Police Officers ...

Mattoon firefighters and police officers work the scene Friday, May 2, 2025, of a fatal crash at the Odd Fellow-Rebekah Home ...

About the same time, the Bloomington Police Department got a call "describing the same act occurring at Lowes on Gates Drive." As officers from both agencies tried to locate the car, more 911 ...