A Black jail inmate who was slammed into bunkbeds, thrown facedown and then dragged backward across the concrete floor by a rope clipped to his handcuffed ...

In the farm town where Cooper DeJean drew up football plays in elementary school and taught classmates to run them at recess, ...

President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the ...

Jan. 20 is a federally observed holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Over the weekend, communities across Chicago will host events and service opportunities to honor the ...

Kasparas Jakucionis scored 24 points and Illinois held off UCLA for an 83-78 win over UCLA to end the Bruins’ seven-game win ...

Clark County commissioners have approved a zoning request for a new truck station/terminal on Ohio 235 in the Park Layne area, after some residents raised questions, and the business owner offered ...

If the Legislature approves the funding as submitted, Clark County would receive $356,989 for maintenance and upgrades to its 600 bioretention facilities. (The Columbian files) The latest round of ...

(Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) A judge earlier this week upheld Clark County’s approval of two housing developments in the Fairgrounds neighborhood that had been challenged by a nearby resident.

Last July, Sonya Massey called 911 to report a potential prowler outside her Illinois home ... civil court by the county. Starla Smith's 23-year-old son Dylan Schlieper Clark died from what ...