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Douglas Stewart Carter sits in a car after he was released out of the Utah County Jail as a Utah judged ordered his release from jail on Monday Sept. 28, 2026, in Spanish Fork, Utah. (AP Photo/George Frey)
Crime
3 weeks ago
A man who spent decades on Utah’s death row is released and awaits a new trial in a 1985 killing

Carter, a Chicago native, was living with his mother in Utah when Olesen was killed on Feb. 27, 1985.

IL State News
4 weeks ago
Man found dead near Alma Mater Statue on U of I campus identified

Police said there is no threat to the campus community after the body was discovered early Monday morning.

Local
4 weeks ago
Appointed Sangamon County sheriff faces challenger

Democrat Bell, Republican Crouch debated Sunday.

The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
IL State News
4 weeks ago
Prosecutor accused of misconduct in ‘Broadview Six’ case resigns, says US attorney ‘scapegoated’ her

“I was a convenient target to be scapegoated and publicly vilified,” she wrote.

Bradley Hesse
Local
4 weeks ago
Man gets 20 years in prison for Pawnee sexual assault of minor

The assault happened in Pawnee April, 2024.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer stands in front of a dilapidated detention facility gate.
IL State News
4 weeks ago
US citizen injured in Illinois after ICE agents mistook him for fugitive, tried to arrest him

The man, whose identity was not disclosed, was taken away in an ambulance after the encounter on Sunday in Evanston.

FILE - Bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol are tested with a chemically treated paper that turns blue in the presence of cyanide at the Illinois Department of Health in Oct. 1982, in Chicago. (AP Photo/John Swart, File)
Crime
4 weeks ago
Idaho case may be connected to the 1982 Tylenol murders, officials say

Detective Tim Cooper of the Ada County Sheriff’s Office reopened a cold case investigation in 2019 that led authorities to identify Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski posthumously.

Adam Corbin
Local
1 month ago
Man pleads guilty to hiding dead wife’s body

Adam Corbin, 60, will be sentenced in November.

Three people were killed Thursday at the house, seen left, in the 3000 block of Hoover Ave.
Local
1 month ago
UPDATE: 24 gang members arrested for various Springfield violent crimes, including death of 9-year-old

Guns, drugs, and other “criminal enterprises” also part of the arrests, says Milhiser.

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