Sangamon County News

Family Violence Prevention Council Co-Chair Judge Barb Crowder and Council Coordinator Tina Culp from Oasis Women's Center received training about Financial Abuse of the Elderly at the statewide meeting of the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Councils in Springfield on May 15.

A day that changed the world will be remembered on June 2 as the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion is observed at the Illinois World War II Memorial in Springfield's Oak Ridge Cemetery.

An autopsy is planned on a 57-year-old Springfield man who died after an ATV crash.

While there isn't a law requiring guns to be secure in the home, police still recommend locking them up.

The Illinois Senate has approved a plan to consolidate some of Illinois' Regional Offices of Education, and the plan has the support of the state's regional superintendents.

Another tornado destroyed several buildings in Sangamon County as it moved from New Berlin to near Pleasant Plains.

When a St. Clair County jury last month convicted Aaron "Chill" Jackson of the shooting death of Washington Park Mayor John Thornton, it wasn't the first time prosecutors had charged Jackson with murder.