On July 6, at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, died after being shot in her home by a White sheriff’s deputy. Nearly 116 years earlier, an 84-year ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — The individual found dead in Southwind Park is confirmed to be an adult male resident of Springfield. Kayaker finds body in Heritage Lake; Rantoul Police investigating ...

SPRINGFIELD — Police are investigating the death of a man found Friday afternoon in Springfield as suspicious. Officers and medics were called to the 1200 block of Warder Street at 3 p.m. on reports ...

The man shot to death inside a Springfield club late on Thanksgiving night has been identified as Shyheim Gibson, according to a Springfield Police Division incident report released Monday. Officers ...

UPDATE 6/17/2024: According to the Prosecutor’s office, Isaac Johnston has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Isaac Johnston mughost UPDATE 4/26/2024: A Springfield man has pleaded guilty to DWI ...

Feb. 13—A Springfield man was indicted Tuesday in connection to the shooting death of another man last week. Douglas L. Crowley Sr., 45, was indicted on two counts of murder, one felonious assault ...

The Springfield Police Department is investigating after bullets with the words "die" and an anti-gay slur were left outside of the GLO Center in Springfield. Bullet casings were also found etched ...

SPRINGFIELD — A bike tire was lodged under the driver’s side of a vehicle last Thursday but the driver was nowhere to be found. That was the scene at the intersection of Parker and Verge streets in ...

A Springfield, Massachusetts, man is the second person to plead guilty to the kidnapping and murder of a Massachusetts man whose body was found in a burning car in Hartford in 2020. A Waterbury man ...

Before Iwuagwu’s death, he was released from a local hospital on Nov. 24 and returned home, a family member told the responding officer. He was last seen on surveillance video near his home in Holland ...

Illinois just became the 12th state to allow for physician-assisted suicide. One local hospital says it won't be participating, however.