A federal judge in Illinois has issued a split ruling in a case against a state abortion law, finding part of the law violates the constitutional right to free speech by compelling medical ...

Josef Fritl is serving a life sentence in prison and is suffering with dementia (Picture: AP) Josef Fritzl could be released from prison just in time for his 90th birthday tomorrow. The depraved ...

Tina Sfondeles/Sun-Times Share A federal judge in Rockford has ruled that a portion of a 2016 Illinois law violates the constitutional right to free speech for compelling anti-abortion medical ...

BOSTON — A former traveling nurse who surrendered her license in New Hampshire but then went to work at nursing and rehab facilities in Massachusetts was sent to federal prison for tampering ...

Lawsuits were filed shortly thereafter. The consolidated cases out of the Southern District of Illinois federal court ended last fall when the judge there ruled in a permanent injunction that the ...

Requesting a two-year prison sentence instead, Santos’ lawyers wrote, “[Santos’] personal history, his cooperation in a separate federal investigation, the non-violent nature of his offenses ...

A dangerous new class of illicit drugs being marketed to kids — or a lifeline for small business owners and minority entrepreneurs who have been boxed out of Illinois’ legal marijuana industry?

The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion ...

By going after the federal work force, Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are radicalizing the very people who can best explain how the government does so much good for so many. Micah L. Sifry writes The ...

Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges. The U.S. Attorney for the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former congressman George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges.