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The Justice Department is escalating a feud with California officials over the state's voting system that looks like it will continue through Election Day and beyond.

Mental health courts connect people to treatment and keep them out of jail. But they also often come at the price of a guilty plea, and participants say that feels like coercion.

Gov. Bruce Rauner's criminal justice adviser has told an Illinois House committee that Rauner's plan to reinstate the death penalty is designed to "avoid…

Both Central Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood and Rodney Davis voted for the bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.This is not a complete repeal of…

Illinois State Police say a school bus driver from Mahomet who was driving erratically on Tuesday night faces drunk driving and other charges.Police said…

One person died Tuesday in a crash on Interstate 74 near Morton involving two semis and a passenger vehicle.Illinois State Police said in a statement all…

The unemployment rate in Bloomington Normal rose a half point last month.The State Department of Employment Security says the five-point-one-percent…

Even with Texas's new abortion restrictions, under Texas law, a pregnant person can't be charged with murder or homicide for having an abortion.

Authorities on Thursday discovered a suspicious package addressed to actor Robert De Niro in lower Manhattan, and another addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden in Delaware.

The country's rural population is shrinking. Governments and community activists are working to reimagine rural life in places like Kansas, but the drop-off continues.