The state prison in Chester will hold a escapee drill Thursday. The city reports that SCI Chester will hold a drill Thursday morning simulating a response for an escaped prisoner. Officials said the ...

Danny Davis will be home for Thanksgiving, a dream for many, but for him, a goal three decades in the making after he was wrongfully convicted of murder in downstate Illinois. Davis was just 20 years ...

Something to be thankful for. An Illinois man who spent more than three decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit was finally exonerated this month just in time for Thanksgiving. In March 1992 ...

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Contracts counties enter with third party medical providers may offer varying levels of staff, hours and insurance benefits.

LAKE FOREST, IL – An Illinois physician, Dr. Krishnaswami Sriram of Lake Forest, has been sentenced to 34 months in prison after being convicted of health care fraud and for concealing assets and ...

CHESTER, Ill. (WSIL) -- State Sen. Terri Bryant and Meridian of Illinois donated 150 Thanksgiving turkeys to the Chester Area Christian Food Pantry. This effort aimed to provide local families in ...

The former pastor of a Hamilton County church has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds intended for his congregation.

A Delaware County prison inmate has been charged with procuring a prison weapon after a search turned up a prison shank. Jedidiah Grant, 24, of the 200 block of East 24th Street was charged by the ...

HAMILTON COUNTY, Ill. (KFVS) - A former southern Illinois church pastor was sentenced to nearly two years in prison for fraudulently getting COVID-19 relief money in a church’s name. According to a ...

Fire crews battled a fire at the former Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church in Chester, Delaware County early Wednesday morning. According to fire officials, the incident was reported ...