Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s executive protection detail is budgeted to cost up to $1.5 million this year.

Caged in a cell, Jerad Traylor struggled to breathe and cried out for help, pleading that he felt like he was dying. And it turned out his feelings of despair were exactly right. Four days after his ...

Investigators arrested 31 male suspects in January in connection with human trafficking, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

The Living to Serve Foundation held an event at the Peoria County Sheriff’s Department to help incarcerated women learn about their future healthcare and post-sentence situations, with over ...

Ohio’s 2024 U.S. Senate race was billed as the most expensive non-presidential political race in United States history. But if you consider the cost-per-vote, running in Cleveland’s Ward 5 was much ...

Vikki Radford credits access to health care through CountyCare, a Medicaid plan, for keeping her alive by allowing her doctors to detect two types of cancers in the early stages. Radford, 64, of ...

The west side of the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Eudora city leaders will soon decide whether to create special housing districts for a large home development, and Douglas County ...

In a social media post, the Cook County Sheriff's Office shared a photo of the 24 dogs that are part of their K-9 Unit. From AJ to Zilly, the office showed off a photo of each of the dogs. "ROLL CALL!

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will be behind bars at the same prison where Diddy, Ghislaine Maxwell and other high-profile defendants were all housed while they awaited trial. A source told Fox ...

Twenty people died in 2025 in the Harris County Jail, the state’s largest pre-trial detention system, which has faced years of understaffing, overcrowding and wrongful death lawsuits. The death toll ...

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After more than 10 years of partnering on search and rescue missions, wildfire fights and medical interventions, Bernalillo County firefighters have been ousted from the Sheriff's Office's helicopter ...