The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following all…
U.S. officials are testing a new wildfire retardant after two decades of buying millions of gallons annually from one supplier, but watchdogs …
The deadliest smuggling attempt in U.S. history underscores the limitations of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s massive border security operation. Tex…
Democrats and their aligned groups raised more than $80 million in the week after the Supreme Court stripped away a woman’s constitutional rig…
Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle charges that it falsified records about international deliveries of U.S. mail. The Jus…
A federal judge has ruled Arizona has been violating the constitutional rights of incarcerated people in state-run prisons by providing them w…
The U.S. has announced it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter…
The jury in the corruption trial of Delaware State Auditor Kathy McGuiness has acquitted her on felony charges of theft and witness intimidati…
President Joe Biden has held a virtual meeting with Democratic governors as he considers next steps on abortion after the Supreme Court overtu…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Republican voters in Illinois will choose from six candidates to challenge incumbent Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in the …
For the first time in nearly a quarter century, there is an open race for the office of Illinois secretary of state as incumbent Democrat Jess…
QUINCY — With every Adams County Board seat up for grabs in 2022, four GOP candidates are seeking to serve the fourth district, which covers t…
Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will travel to Adams County for a campaign rally with U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Oakland.
QUINCY — A contract to reserve the Adams County Fairgrounds June 24 to 26 has been signed by a renting organization named “Save America Rally,…
California will not consider amending its state constitution to eliminate an exemption that allows indentured servitude to punish crime. The p…
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to derail a bill designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States if…
Alabama officials said they are moving forward with plans to build two supersize prisons despite a bond sale falling more than $200 million sh…
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont underwent surgery Thursday after he broke his hip in a fall at his home. A spokesman for the 82-year-old De…
Public schools in Texas would describe slavery to second graders as “involuntary relocation” under new social studies standards proposed to th…
Energy companies have submitted bids totaling more than $22 million to secure drilling rights on about 110 square miles of federal lands in th…
Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle charges it falsified information about deliveries of international mail, including m…
Voters in Lewis County overwhelmingly supported the special school bond at the polls Tuesday.
QUINCY — Adams County Sheriff Rich Wagner has called his time as sheriff “an honor and a privilege” but the time was right to retire from the …
QUINCY — At the end of the 2022 midterm elections, Adams County will have a new sheriff.
QUINCY — Aurora Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin visited Quincy on Thursday and said he hopes Illinois can be seen as a law and…
The 2022 campaign season got underway in earnest Monday as candidates lined up in front of election offices to turn in petitions to get their …
U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, discussed his plans to support agriculture should he be elected to a sixth term in Congress during Wed…
GOP gubernatorial candidate Jesse Sullivan visited Quincy on Sunday as part of a statewide truck tour and discussed his plans to reduce violen…