Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a job in the prison kitchen played a role in the escape of a convicted former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.” Grant Hardin, 56, was ...

As law officers search Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison ...

Cook County commissioners approved roughly $48 million in legal settlements Thursday, including $7.45 million each to two men who won a record jury verdict after wrongfully spending 16 years ...

With some residents facing record-high increases to their property taxes, Cook County commissioners on Thursday approved giving one-time payments of $1,000 to a limited number of households ...

Cook County’s pilot program to provide guaranteed income to more than 3,000 people did what it was intended to do, early findings suggest — it helped provide some economic stability.

A zombie ant, a pair of bats and a gorilla lurked around the shadiest alcoves of a Cook County forest preserve ... club newsletter into a shared Google Doc. “They had written this whole thing ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The union representing the Cook County Sheriff's Office is demanding an investigation after a Department of Corrections deputy was beaten by an inmate at Cook County Jail.

Manuel Martinez/WBEZ file Share A Cook County corrections deputy is facing charges after she allegedly tried to smuggle drug-soaked paper into Cook County Jail, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — A Cook County Corrections Deputy has been charged after she was allegedly found to be in possession of ...

Five fun things to do this weekend in SW FL, including Doc Ford novelist Randy Wayne White and a musical-theater parody of the movie "Alien." ...

Cook County Health will award $44 million in grants over 26 months to improve equity in behavioral health. The grant program, part of the Stronger Together: Building a More Equitable Behavioral ...

A Cook County judge on Jan. 19 ruled to allow more time for attorneys to prepare for a case involving a former Cook County Corrections officer charged with shooting to death a then-22-year-old man ...