Employees of Secretary of State Jesse White who are members of the Illinois Federation of Teachers have taken a strike authorization vote, but will continue negotiating for the time being.
A Hillsboro man who had been asking Hillsboro police officers to test the strength of his meth and claimed that he was on a CIA mission was arrested Jan. 20 after dropping off an envelope containing the suspected drug at the police station.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to the U.S. House, has named 13th Congressional District candidate Betsy Londrigan of Springfield as one of the first 12 candidates nationally to it's 2020 "red to blue" list.
A former Illinois state senator pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting around a quarter of a million dollars in bribes in exchange for protecting the interests of a red-light camera company, and promised to cooperate with federal prosecutors in ongoing public corruption investigations.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is set to unveil his administration's much-anticipated Middle East peace plan in the latest American venture to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will discuss Trump's Middle East peace plan at the White House at 12 p.m. ET, Tuesday, Jan. 28.
As investigators look deeper into the helicopter crash that killed nine people, including NBA legend Kobe Bryant, in Calabasas, California on Sunday afternoon, the potential cause or causes of the crash remains unclear.
