On this week's episode of the Under the Dome podcast the State Journal-Register's Bernard Schoenburg is solo as Doug Finke has the day off, so he breaks down the week that was in Illinois politics starting with Gov.

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A Massachusetts man who used a crossbow while trying to save his neighbor from being mauled by two dogs accidentally shot and killed him instead, according to officials.

  Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's campaign opened a Springfield office this week, and JC Gonzalez-Ramirez, who is running the office, says the operation can also help other Democratic candidates.

A spacecraft named after a Bradley University alumnus who was the first African-American chosen as an astronaut is set to launch for the International Space Station on Sunday afternoon.

Illinois treasurer Michael Frerichs doesn't worry about taxpayers' information in his office systems being hacked or glitched.

Three men were arrested on drug charges after two separate search warrants were executed in Springfield earlier this week.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Nearly 150,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern United States were without power early Friday after a powerful storm raked the region.

NEW YORK- On a rainy Monday, students hustled into a large building in Manhattan containing two different public high schools.