SPRINGFIELD — The former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a 36-year-old woman this month was recommended for "high-stress decision-making classes" in 2022 after violating multiple policies at his previous employer, the Logan County Sheriff's Office, records show.Ìý
Belleville, Swansea, Shiloh and Fairview Heights will allow off-duty officers to help patrol MetroLink under agreements announced Friday. They join the St. Louis sheriff's department, which has had a similar arrangement since 2020.
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has confirmed recent sightings in Saline, Pope, Williamson and Jackson counties, but couldn't say whether it was one bear or multiple.
A riveted nation watched video released this week of a sheriff’s deputy in Springfield, Illinois, fatally shooting Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 for assistance, in her home.
Twenty-one people in the last week have joined a mass tort against a Switzerland-based agricultural company, claiming exposure to its widely-used herbicide caused their Parkinson's disease.
Guadalupe L. Lopez is the second person to die on the Big River since Sunday. He died near Byrnes Mill. A Valley Park woman drowned on the same river, but miles away, in St. Francois County.
Illinois State Police say no one was injured in a rollover crash involving theÌýOscar Mayer Wienermobile. ðŸŒðŸš¨
The sightings have been in Saline, Pope, Williamson and Jackson counties, according to a news release from the agency.
He was charged in 2021 with pushing his girlfriend off a balcony, leaving her with a broken neck, crushed spine and damaged internal organs.
Terrance Jefferson was speeding and drunk when he ran a red light and killed a man from O'Fallon, Illinois.
The most expensive was BJC HealthCare. Barnes-Jewish charged private insurance over three times what Medicare paid for the same services.Ìý
Contestants from around the Midwest gathered in Granite City to participate in the MudGirl obstacle race on Saturday, July 20, 2024. Event organizers estimated that 4,500 participants raced through a three-mile obstacle course with 17 obstacles.Ìý
Illinois does not have an established population of black bears, but officials believe the bears seen in southern Illinois have traveled from Missouri, which has an estimated 900 bears.
"Local families deserve to know how this happened and how their safety will be ensured going forward,"ÌýBudzinski said in a statement sent Friday to the Post-Dispatch.
Sonya Massey was killed after Sangamon County deputies responded to her 911 call early on July 6, State’s Attorney John Milhiser said.
Metro Transit is buying a second walk-through metal detector to be used randomly at MetroLink stations.
Terry and Carolyn Dooley of AltonÌýwere both 88 years old. They had been married 65 years.
A Chicago-based betting company said it has agreed to buy Fairmount Park, the 99-year-old horse-racing track in Collinsville, in a deal valued at $35 million.
"Preliminary reporting from MSHA concluded that a buildup of mud and other sediment in an ancient cave above the mine collapsed into the mine, causing the sinkhole."
Heavy rains on Tuesday forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents of Nashville, Illinois, as floodwaters here threatened to overwhelm an 89-year-old earthen dam.
Wait times for surgical abortions in Illinois have jumped from 24 hours to three weeks.
From Monday through Wednesday, hundreds of local and military personnel will practice responding to an 8.4-magnitude earthquake.
A 56-year-old woman was charged Friday in the murder of a man in Cahokia Heights on Wednesday.
Karyn Hearn Slover, 23, was shot to death in 1996 and her body parts dumped in Lake Shelbyville.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined local officials Thursday at the grand opening of a new $15 million public safety building at the Emerson Park MetroLink station in East St. Louis.
Local sports leagues and summer camps have also had to make adjustments following the collapse.
Police are investigating the shooting death of Stephen Monigan, 68, of Cahokia Heights.
A state senator from 2011 to 2019, Sam McCann formed the Conservative Party of Illinois in a 2018 bid for governor.
A hole in the Gordon Moore Park athletic fields in Alton caused by a mine collapse on June 26 spreads further after rain, as seen on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Video by Allie Schallert, aschallert@post-dispatch.com