Forward progress was stopped on a fire that threatened an apartment building and resulted in an evacuation warning in Rancho Bernardo on Friday, officials said.

Former President Joe Biden called on attorneys to lead the fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration in a speech at a downtown Chicago hotel on ...

Cook County Board President and Democratic chair Toni Preckwinkle is endorsing state Sen. Robert Peters in his bid for ...

Jesse Jackson Jr. is exploring a run for his old congressional seat. If he goes forward, voters should be the ones to decide if his felony conviction matters.

A woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing her boyfriend, who was a father and a U.S. Navy member, when ...

The two victims of a deadly Sheridan, Illinois shooting and house fire have been identified. Ronald Martin, Jr. is charged with their murders.

Details of this story can be disturbing. Discretion is advised. LASALLE COUNTY, Ill. — A Sheridan woman on the verge of a kidnapping by an alleged double murderer was able to escape ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources could pay fishers up to $1,000 a month to catch and remove black carp, an invasive species threatening the Mississippi River basin and its tributaries.

After spending a decade as a crime reporter, CNN Hero Debra Des Vignes created the Indiana Prison Writers Workshop, a nonprofit writing program that helps incarcerated people work through trauma ...

A suspect was apprehended in LaSalle County, Illinois, late Thursday, after two people were found dead after a report of shots fired and a house fire in the early-morning hours.

A rancher uses an app from his phone to monitor grazing pasture boundaries. Three Sheridan County ranchers will go through the virtual fencing company Halter to implement the technology on their ...