Shocking news from the state's capital city this afternoon as reports that Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin was found dead at his home of a gunshot wound. more ›

A developmentally disabled pregnant woman with a one-year-old son was tortured and beaten to death by a social worker and the social worker's children, among others, in Alton, Illinois, about 300 miles south of here. Holy moly, is this story ever sad. more ›