CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois prosecutors have told a judge they are presenting evidence to a grand jury for a possible indictment against the father of the man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a […]

CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago authorities say a deadly fire in a high-rise apartment building was caused by someone smoking in a bedroom.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – A new federal lawsuit contends that Illinois’ two-week-old ban on semiautomatic weapons outlaws “ubiquitous” firearms in “radical” defiance of the Constitution’s Second Amendment.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Investigators say in a charging document that an 18-year-old who was involved in an ongoing gang dispute walked into the common area of an Iowa alternative education program for at-risk […]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Two teenage students were killed and a man was seriously injured in what police called a targeted shooting at an alternative educational program for at-risk youth in Des Moines.