In March, the Springfield Police Department needed three City Council meetings to get approval for a new BearCat vehicle to ...

Residents of Moberly gathered Tuesday morning at a railroad crossing to pay tribute to a beloved member of the community, ...

Michigan State University scrambled to relocate some final exams after police said they discovered a man inside an academic ...

More than 100 pounds of medications were safely disposed of in a prescription drug take-back event in Decatur.

Residents turned out in force for a recent medication disposal event, helping safely remove more than 100 pounds of unused ...

A weekend medication take-back event in Decatur resulted in the safe disposal of 126 pounds of unused and expired prescriptions, according to organizers. The event, hosted Saturday by the ...

The final hearing before trial was held Thursday in the Macon County Courthouse for the man accused in the 2011 murder of ...

The woman who pleaded guilty to injuring a teenager during a crash is going to prison. A Macon County judge sentenced Karen ...

And on the Decatur Patch calendar - Pollination Celebration ...

What police found after a controlled buy in East Alton leads to prison term ...

Illinois lawmakers are fed up with the state Department of Corrections after another audit found it has ignored state spending rules and failed to fix many mistakes that have languished for years.

Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over ...