On Saturday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: An Illinois sheriff will retire in the wake of the deputy killing of Sonya Massey. Sixty-one people are dead after a plane crash in Brazil. USA ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The former Illinois deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey last month will remain jailed, a judge ruled Friday, rejecting his request to be released to accommodate his medical ...

Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell announced his retirement Friday. Massey's father had repeatedly called for Campbell to resign for hiring Sean Grayson as a deputy in the central Illinois county.

Jack Campbell, the Illinois sheriff whose deputy was charged with murder after fatally shooting a Black woman in her home last month, said Friday that he would leave his position by the end of the ...

The sheriff opposes the state’s TRUST Act, which makes Illinois a sanctuary state. He calls it an “unfunded mandate” that prompts new immigrants from all over the country to move to Illinois ...

Illinois Supreme Court Justice Robert Thomas has chosen Associate Judge C. Stanley Austin to replace Mehling as a full circuit judge. Austin has been an associate judge since 1992.

Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell, embroiled in controversy following the July 6 fatal shooting of Sonya Massey by a sheriff's deputy, said he is stepping away.