In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution of juvenile offenders is unconstitutional. In 2011, the U.S. Interior ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has proposed continuing the funding for a program aimed at getting more minority teachers in classrooms as ...

There are more than 7,000 direct citations of slavery-law precedents that continue to guide lawyers and judges.

In July, Coalition Life petitioned the Supreme Court to review the Carbondale case in hopes of overturning the Hill decision.

A federal appeals court on Friday paved the way for an Illinois wrongful-death suit to proceed against tire manufacturer Goodrich, after the state Supreme Court responded to questions the Seventh ...

A West Virginia judge ordered that a monitor be put in place to oversee state child protective services placements in hotels and camps on Friday after a 12-year-old boy in ...

Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic stopped providing abortions Friday, but it remained open after Gov. Mark Gordon ...

AROUND THE STATE Pritzker and Illinois Dems say the state is being shorted $1.9B by Trump - “Gov. JB Pritzker and most of the ...

It’s usually taken as a given in the United States that the power to prosecute criminal cases belongs exclusively to the ...

The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court race who has received the support of Elon Musk said Wednesday ...

Cleodious “J.R.” Schoffner Jr. hadn't killed anyone when he was put away at age 20 as an accomplice to a 1997 murder. He got a life sentence without possibility of parole. That wouldn't happen today.

Illinois state taxes are high in some areas and low in others. For example, Illinois has one of the highest sales tax rates in the U.S., but it's also one of the states that don't tax retirement ...