Sammy Shafer Jr. is set to appear in court on Friday morning for his arraignment in connection with the murder-for-hire of 32 ...

One of the three men charged in a high-profile murder-for-hire case in the shooting death of Portia Rowland is set to appear ...

Shafer Jr., 36, and another defendant, Marty D. Shaw, 33, of Collinsville. A third defendant, Gary D. Johnson ... in Pontoon Beach with his father. Illinois Secretary of State records show ...

another name floated in the mix of Illinois activists, politicians and police commanders involved with its development: Marty Goddard, which is what everyone called the otherwise formal Chicago ...

The mayor is laying out his priorities for the year. But what's not on the list are solutions to the big fiscal cliffs for ...

Three men charged in what prosecutors are calling a murder-for-hire appeared in court for the first time Tuesday afternoon.

State lawmakers who stood in the way of recent legislation that would've regulated intoxicating hemp products have received significant campaign cash from the industry — while some backers of the ...

An Illinois man is accused of hiring a hit man to kill his estranged wife's girlfriend. The post ‘Calculated’ husband paid for ‘personal grievance’ murder of estranged wife’s girlfriend amid threats ...

Two of the men charged in the murder-for-hire scheme that killed Portia Rowland appeared in court on Tuesday. Rowland, 32, was shot and killed on the morning of Tuesday, January 21. Investigators said ...

As for the Illinois statehouse, Johnson’s agenda would take baby steps ... Bartley said. Alds. Marty Quinn, 13th Ward, and Silvana Tabares, 23rd Ward, already banned the sale of hemp in their ...