On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm, causing as many as 600 deaths. In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were ...

Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" (bind, torture, kill) killer, pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area. He ...

Illinois has a well-documented history of corruption, extending beyond elected politicians to include appointed and career ...

The village's dire financial condition means Dolton can't afford to take on the house where Pope Leo XIV grew up, a motion for a temporary restraining order argues.

Trump’s immigration crackdown, his extrajudicial disappearances of students based on their beliefs, and his invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act—which asserts that the country is being invaded by ...

Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis has vetoed a bill that would ban surprise billing by ambulance companies, over the unanimous objections of both chambers of the state legislature.

Trump pardons Rod Blagojevich, who tried to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat The former Illinois governor was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011. He served eight years in prison ...

Blagojevich was convicted in 2011 on multiple corruption charges, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama following his 2008 presidential election.

Perhaps the most telling moment of the news conference Rod Blagojevich held hours after President Donald Trump granted the disgraced ex-Illinois governor a full pardon came even before he answered ...

In this Dec. 7, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, left, speaks to reporters as his wife, Patti, listens at the federal building in Chicago.