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The Illinois Answers Project found jail staff are restraining people in chairs in ways that often violate policies and last longer than recommended by manufacturers.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports that the largest health-care provider in Orange County will not accept any new HMO patients. St. Joseph Health System, which includes nearly 10 percent of the county's doctors, says it is losing millions of dollars on HMO contracts and can't afford to accept any more patients unless the health plans raise their rates.

Though the Boy Scouts' anti-gay policy was upheld by the Supreme Court, many school districts are distancing themselves from the organization. That includes two of the nation's largest systems--New York City and Broward County, Florida. But, as NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports, the scouts are fighting back ... filing a lawsuit challenging Broward County's ban.

On Saturday in Slocum, Texas, the state will officially recognize the Slocum Massacre of 1910 — the attack on a black community in east Texas by white residents. The recognition comes over the objections of the white county officials.

The public health order does not apply to varsity sports such as the football team, which plays University of Minnesota on the road Saturday. The two-week order was prompted by surging virus cases.

UPDATED 6:45 p.m. | Authorities are investigating after a small plane registered in Bloomington crashed Tuesday along Interstate 55 near Lincoln,...

Critics warn that the measure will jeopardize the voter registrations of thousands of the state's residents.

The first wave of COVID-19 vaccines could be available to some frontline health care workers and nursing home residents in central Illinois in just a...

A rural county just north of Peoria is reporting early success getting its teachers vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The alleged gunman in a Labor Day weekend shooting in DeWitt County that killed one person and critically injured another has apparently killed himself, authorities said Tuesday.