In November, the U.S. Justice Department announced it was investigating the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in connection with claims that the department was not even-handed in its enforcement of the ...

Eugene Sanders, 18, and Dajon Neely, 18, were charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Dion Butler, 34, in the 6200 block of South Laflin Street.

Steps outlined in a "memorandum of agreement" between the DOJ and the county's sheriff's department, 911 dispatch system and ...

A city man wants a judge to take "any necessary steps" to invalidate Chuck Redpath's appointment as city clerk.

A Springfield man arrested in connection to a shooting and botched drug deal in the Fred Meyer parking lot on Market Street nearly a year ago was sentenced Jan. 17 to five years in prison.

Sangamon County, its sheriff’s office and its central dispatch system announced last week an agreement with the U.S.

A Springfield man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday in two separate criminal cases, drug trafficking and fatally shooting another person.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended the Commander-in-Chief Inaugural Ball and the Liberty Inaugural Ball in Washington on Monday night. The victim of a deadly shooting on ...

The Hampden District Attorney’s Office said the victim is 19-year-old Semaj Brewster of Springfield. Springfield Police had ...

Sangamon County officials ink pact with DOJ after Massey killing amid doubts from critics who call probe hasty ...

Sangamon County, its sheriff's office and its central dispatch system on Thursday announced an agreement with the U.S.

It specifically states the Department of Justice did not find evidence that the county, the sheriff’s department or central ...