A jury convicted five Minnesota residents but acquitted two others on Friday for their roles in a scheme to steal more than $40 million that was supposed to feed children during the coronavirus ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson collected nearly $900,000 last year for her upcoming memoir, one of four Supreme Court justices who reported sizable income from book deals.

A Sangamon County judge blocked the Illinois State Board of Elections from enforcing a new law that would have prevented certain General Assembly candidates who didn’t run in the March primary from ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed the state’s $53.1 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year, the largest in state history.

Like many people, David W. Ellis rethought a few things during the pandemic.As an award-winning writer of crime fiction, he already had a well-developed side pursuit. But he needed to get back to ...

A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming ...

Attorney General Merrick Garland forcefully rebuked what he described as unprecedented attacks on the Justice Department Tuesday, telling Republicans who have sought to hold him in contempt that he ...

The family of a toddler who sustained permanent brain damage after having a stroke that allegedly resulted from a delayed diagnosis and treatment of an infection accepted a $15 million settlement in ...

Amazon is shielded by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act from liability for purportedly violating employees’ privacy by using thermal cameras to conduct temperature checks during the ...

Illinois lawyers will be subject to a facially unconstitutional rule of professional conduct restricting speech made “in the practice of law.” That is the impact of the amendment last week to Rules 5.

Where a court admits lay witness identification testimony, only a single factor, such as general familiarity with the defendant, is necessary to show that it was not an abuse of discretion.

Where only four seconds elapsed between suspect losing consciousness and police officer ceasing the use of force, amount of time was not sufficient to put officer on notice that further use of force ...