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A Wyoming County man received a prison sentence after prosecutors said he killed a woman in her home and fled the country.

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Sandra Kolalou, who in 2024 was sentenced to 58 years in prison for the gruesome murder of 69-year-old organist Frances ...

Michael Baltimore avoided a trial later this month and was sentenced Thursday for gunning down Kendell Cook, a popular barber ...

The nation’s longest-serving legislative speaker, a state senator and a former Cook County commissioner were on Illinois’ too-long list of corrupt politicians.

A Valparaiso area man is in custody on charges of murder and arson for a fatal fire Oct. 31 at a group home in Union Township ...

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Earcy Tucker is retiring from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office a decade after the sheriff's office helped build him a ...

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On Thursday, Michael Baltimore, 47, appeared before a Cumberland County judge and admitted that on May 22, 2021, he shot and killed Kendell Jerome Cook in the GQ Barbershop in Carlisle.