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Mourners are expected to gather Saturday in Summerville, South Carolina to remember Walter Scott, the 50-year-old black driver who was fatally shot by a white police officer after fleeing a…Click to Continue »

Events related to this year's Go! St. Louis Marathon activities will create a few headaches for drivers this weekend.Click to Continue »

Lake County State's Attorney Michael Nerheim says he is closely monitoring the investigation into the shooting death by a Zion police officer of a northeastern Illinois teenager.Click to Continue »

Cook County prosecutors say Chicago police officers stumbled upon a homicide while attempting to deliver news a stolen auto had been recovered.Click to Continue »

Authorities say the father of a 3-year-old girl found alone near a suburban Chicago forest preserve has waived extradition and will be returned to Illinois to face aggravated kidnapping charges.Click to Continue »

Northern Illinois residents whose rural hamlet was nearly leveled by a deadly twister may get to return to their homes Saturday to assess the damage from the storm that killed…Click to Continue »

A judge has issued an order requiring Illinois government agencies to immediately reinstate mandatory union dues for nonmembers.Click to Continue »

Family and friends of a northeastern Illinois teenager killed by a Zion police officer filed into a North Chicago church to hear the victim described as a "loving young man."Click to Continue »

An appeals court ruled Friday that Missouri can't limit health insurance navigators' ability to help people obtain insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law — a ruling that advocates…Click to Continue »

A Denver police officer hit by a car while protecting student protesters in December was on the mound for the first pitch at the Colorado Rockies' home opener.Click to Continue »