Four tenants were displaced by a fire that swept through a two-story apartment house early Thursday morning at 701 S. 17th St. No injuries were reported.

While prosecutors contend that the alleged crimes are a violation of the law, advocates for reforming criminal forfeiture laws say the way these laws are written makes them ripe for exploitation.

Foreign money futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Thursday: Net change deletes decimal point and leading zeros.

A day after President Donald Trump threw out policies that limited immigration arrests at sensitive locations, fear spread across the migrant community in the U.S. illegally who were stripped of ...

Karla, an orphaned baby Nigerian dwarf goat, has been going to work with her owner, Coles County Animal Shelter manager Julie Deters, this winter.

The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and a number of immigrants rights groups across the country.

Illinois had at least 103 outbreaks of the stomach bug norovirus in November and December — a dramatic increase from previous years, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. During the ...

If Donald Trump has a natural environment, it is cognitive dissonance. Nowhere was that on display more than the moment in his inauguration speech when he said, “I want to ...

Join the Mattoon Public Library for this month’s Family Library night “Snow Much Fun!” from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan 23. Attend for crafty projects, a guest-star reader, and food provided by the ...

Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that critics such as President Trump claim, but it hasn't kept the world from overheating, either. Here's a closer look.

Donald Trump begins his second term promising to disrupt the status quo — in Washington and around the world. Lord knows the status quo needs disrupting, but how he’ll do ...

It's not hard to understand why Sen. Ruben Gallego voted for the Republican-written Laken Riley Act. The measure would force the federal detention without bail for undocumented migrants accused of ...