Jerome police sergeant, defendant in federal lawsuit, resigns

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The Regional Cancer Partnership of Central Illinois is providing free breast cancer screenings to women with no insurance or to those who are underinsured as part of "Mammogram Mondays" in October.

A woman in her 80s who had tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 31 became the 46th Sangamon County resident with the disease to die, health officials said Tuesday.

The Virginia police chief has been suspended with pay while an investigation continues into alleged inappropriate social media messages.

The Dana-Thomas House State Historic Site in Springfield will be featured Thursday as part of the Wright Virtual Visits social media video series highlighting Frank Lloyd Wright-designed public sites from around the country.

Texas-based energy company Vistra announced plans Tuesday to shutter its coal-fired power plant in Kincaid.

A House committee investigating Speaker Michael Madigan's conduct kicked off its business in earnest Tuesday and almost immediately exposed its strong partisan divisions.

As of Tuesday, thousands of people in Sangamon County had already used new drop boxes to return their completed ballots - but some of them incurred some unnecessary expense: postage.

With a few modifications, members of the Springfield City Council unanimously advanced a police reform ordinance Tuesday night that largely codifies existing department policy while making changes to the city's Police Citizen Review Commission (PCRC).Among the reforms included in the package: a ban on neck restraints, chokeholds or carotid holds in most cases; a ban on the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse any assembled group unless necessary to protect people,