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Illinois FOID card revocation enforcement problem continues to grow, authorities say
There are tens of thousands of people in Illinois who may be armed, and now considered too dangerous, to keep their firearms. Their FOID cards have been suspended, but the guns have not been confiscated by authorities.
EPD: Mom found passed out on drugs in hotel, small child found in hallway
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - An Illinois woman is facing drug and child neglect charges after police say her small child was found in a hotel hallway by herself. They say it happened Monday at the Clarion Inn on East Indiana Street. Police say they also found 25-year-old Katilyn Hosman unconscious...
19-year-old hurt in Sangamon Co. car vs. tractor crash
SANGAMON COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) – A driver in Sangamon County was lucky to escape serious injury, the Sheriff’s Office said, after their car crashed into a tractor early Thursday morning. The crash happened on Waverly Road at the intersection with Mansion Road, located in New Berlin Township. The Sheriff’s Office determined that a Hyundai was […]
‘Serial Child Rapist’ Nabbed in Missouri After 24 Years on the Run: Feds
An Illinois man labeled a “serial rapist” by authorities was arrested over the weekend in Missouri after more than two decades spent on the lam.Herman Carroll, 72, was taken into custody in the Ozark town of Branson by U.S. Marshals on Saturday, they said.After being accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 2000, he posted bail and vanished. A warrant was issued for his arrest the following year after he failed to appear at a hearing in the case. He was charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse, federal...
Two Illinois residents sentenced to federal prison for trying to break into gun stores
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Two people were sentenced last week in Peoria’s federal court to prison for unsuccessfully trying to break into several gun stores last year across central Illinois. On May 9, Terrence Daniels was sentenced to 33 months in prison which was to run consecutive or...
Suspected bank robber arraigned after U.S. Marshals arrest him hiding in Illinois
JACKSON, MI – Federal agents located in Illinois a man suspected of robbing a bank in Jackson and brought him back to the city to face charges. Jarred Lamoyne Mihaila was arraigned Monday, May 13, on one count of bank robbery in connection with a hold-up March 6 at a branch of America One Credit Union at 718 E. Michigan Ave., court records show.
More than 10 years after the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the state Supreme Court hears arguments in the case
The high-profile murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton in 2013 was before the Illinois Supreme Court yesterday, as the Attorney General’s Office seeks to salvage a conviction. WBBM’s Mike Krauser reports.
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