A Seward man has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman who told police weeks earlier that she had been abused and threatened by him.

The Nebraska State Patrol on Friday officially arrested the man suspected of fatally shooting a 36-year-old Seward woman last weekend.

Wednesday would have been Sonya Massey’s 37th birthday. Instead, it was the day her family’s lawyers announced a $10 million settlement in their wrongful death lawsuit against Sangamon County, ...

Charges have been filed against the 54-year-old man accused of killing his ex-fiancé, and new court documents show he was ...

Madison County Judiciary Committee approves $29,400 campaign to recruit prosecutors amid staffing shortages.

Over 800 properties in Chicago’s West and South Side neighborhoods are up for grabs as part of a bankruptcy sale. According ...

The La Salle County Board has a new member. Jim Reid, a retired truck driver and Marine, replaces Beth Findley Smith.

Thursday, the Shelby County Board voted unanimously to table a resolution that would give them local control of solar and wind projects.

The vote was not unanimous, but Rock County’s Board of Supervisors taps Illinois resident John Light to be the next county ...