(WCIA) — The Sangamon County Coroner has identified a man who was found in the Sangamon River earlier this week. Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said 61-year-old Christopher Roberts of ...

Despite heavy rain, Mississippi River levels are decreasing, while the Illinois River is rising near flood stages.

he was hired by Sangamon County in May 2023 only to have his career end 14 months later when he shot and killed 36-year-old Sonya Massey in her home. The Illinois Senate advanced a pair of bills ...

Ten states could see flooding continue throughout the rest of this week and perhaps longer even though rain has moved on.

State Sen. Mike Halpin secured funding for the Illinois DNR to study the dams and help decide their future. The project faced ...

The tiny central Illinois village ... in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon River dam at New Salem.

A 35-year-old New Berlin woman was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash on eastbound Interstate 72, according to reports from the Illinois State Police and the Sangamon County Coroner's Office.

A former Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy charged in the July 6 fatal shooting of Sonya Massey will stand trial for first-degree murder in Peoria County. Both Sangamon County State's Attorney ...

The murder trial of a former Illinois sheriff's deputy who fatally ... and a $10 million civil-court settlement between Sangamon County and Massey's family all have contributed to "an overwhelming ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo to ...