ST. LOUIS — A federal appeals court has affirmed a decision granting summary judgment to Minneapolis and a police officer in a lawsuit stemming from a protest injury that occurred days after George Floyd’s death, concluding that no reasonable jury…
Arryon McGee, 21, of Bellefontaine Neighbors, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Tyrell Survillion, 21, in the Greater Ville area.
ALTON – State Senator Erica Harriss (56th-Glen Carbon) and State Senator Jil Tracy (50th-Quincy) have teamed up with the Illinois State Treasurer’s Office to host an ICASH event Monday at the Hayner Public Library at Alton Square Mall. Constituents are encouraged to stop by to check if they are owed unclaimed property and receive assistance filing a claim. ICASH Event Details Who: Senator Erica Harriss, Senator Jil Tracy, Illinois State Treasurer’s Office When: Monday,
ALTON – Centerstone is marking Mental Health Awareness Month with multiple upcoming events across the Southern Illinois region: Step Into the Conversation: You Are Not Alone Centerstone is honored to host an official Mental Health Awareness Month Proclamation Reading alongside the unveiling of “The Weight of the Shadow” a powerful sculpture by artist Ariana Berman and commissioned by Lucas McKenney that represents the unseen emotional burdens many carry. This piece is
CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker and IBM today announced the company’s new FutureNow Chicago delivery center at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP). As part of FutureNow Chicago, IBM will create 750 new full-time jobs in AI, cybersecurity, data science, quantum, and more. FutureNow Chicago will serve as an innovation and delivery hub, helping IBM clients and industry partners solve complex, real-world business and technology challenges while creating clear pathways
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced a total of $22,470,985 in federal funding for port infrastructure development projects for the Kaskaskia Regional Port District and Seneca Regional Port District. This funding is provided through the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP), a Maritime Administration discretionary grant that supports projects improving the safety, efficiency and reliability
The suspect in the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night was prepared for a mass casualty event, prosecutors said in a document filed in federal court early Wednesday. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and three assistants in her office signed a memorandum asking a judge to […]
CHICAGO – The Illinois Accountability Commission, housed in the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR), today held its fifth public hearing to reveal further findings from the investigations on the misconduct of federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz, including the names of various rogue Border Patrol agents the administration protected by offering preemptive immunity. “In my 25 years as a federal judge, I have never seen the type of brutality shown by the agents involved
A former employee for a tool and equipment retailer has been charged with running a year-long scheme of stealing from his store by ringing up low-cost items and allowing customers to leave with more expensive products.
James Comey is not exactly someone we’ve ever been a fan of on Techdirt. He was a terrible FBI director in so many ways. We’ve spent years criticizing the man — for his crusade against encryption, his supporting the FBI’s ridiculously aggressive impersonation of reporters, his embrace of the FBI’s program to coerce and entrap […]
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