The fatal shooting earlier this year of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, sparked national outcry over police violence.

The fatal shooting of Sonya Massey has led to the Department of Justice launching a civil rights investigation of the ...

Meta will appeal court rulings over "addictive" social media apps; a school event in Missouri is linked to an E. coli outbreak; an abortion clinic "buffer zone" is challenged in Illinois; and more.

Proceed as normal. That's the advice from one local sheriff after a federal judge ruled the state gun ban unconstitutional.

North Carolina’s Child Fatality Task Force met Wednesday with lawmakers to suggest ways the state gun storage laws can be ...

On the House floor Tuesday, state Rep. Dan Caulkins, R-Decatur, said the state’s gun ban was deemed unconstitutional by ...

A panel of federal judges is weighing whether to overturn a Cook County ban on semiautomatic weapons in a case that could ...

Security has been beefed up here at the state Capitol. The Secretary of State’s Office has added more police officers to ...

It took U.S. Judge Stephen McGlynn 178 pages to explain why, but the bottom line is that the downstate federal judge has declared Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s highly touted assault-weapons ban ...

A federal appeals court three-judge panel has taken a case challenging Cook County’s ban on semi-automatic firearms under ...

A federal judge overturned Illinois's ban on semiautomatic weapons on Friday ... battling the powerful forces of the NRA to enshrine the strongest and most effective gun violence legislation that we ...