The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

When the Illinois Department of Corrections shut down the century-old Stateville Correctional Center in September, officials ...

Is a new public hospital the right move for the county right now? Or is a new county jail the bigger need? A Memphis ...

Out of roughly 400 inmates transferred when Illinois' decrepit Stateville prison closed over the summer, 278 were convicted ...

Now, almost three decades after his arrest, a judge will decide whether to release Robert Johnson later this month.

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

Erick vividly remembers stepping off a plane at the Texas-Mexico border, shackled, when he was deported in 2013. The group he was with was marched single-file across the border to Matamoros, Mexico, ...