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A Texas company says it has asked the Illinois Commerce Commission for permission to build an electricity transmission line through central Illinois.Click to Continue »

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A central Illinois woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing a couple's gifts while she worked for a caterer at their wedding reception last August.Click to Continue »

Federal and county prosecutors are investigating the October fatal shooting by a Chicago police officer of a teenager who authorities say was wielding a knife, and the city says it…Click to Continue »

A shooting in southeast Missouri that killed one person and left another victim badly injured remains under investigation.Click to Continue »

A Champaign County judge has set a June hearing for a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the University of Illinois by a professor denied a job at the…Click to Continue »

A district judge agreed to halt the lethal injection of a Missouri death-row inmate, but the decision was quickly appealed by the attorney general just hours ahead of the scheduled…Click to Continue »

Nine people have been treated for smoke inhalation after fire broke out in a midtown St. Louis apartment building.Click to Continue »

Police in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton on Tuesday are expected to release details of their investigation into the death of Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich.Click to Continue »

A man convicted of murder has made his first court appearance in Kankakee since escaping from jail and spending nearly three days on the run.Click to Continue »