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A third person died Saturday afternoon who was critically wounded in a shooting at a warehouse in central Illinois where the suspect had fatally shot two coworkers before apparently killing himself, authorities said.

Two employees at the Bunn-O-Matic warehouse in Springfield, Illinois, were fatally shot and a third was critically injured after a fellow employee opened fire Friday morning, police officials said. The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office said officers were called out for a shooting just after 11 a.m. Friday at the facility at 1400 Adlai Stevenson Dr. Police said two individuals were…

A family that tailed the car wanted in a Springfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping Wednesday described the tense chase that eventually led to the girl’s recovery and her alleged abductor’s arrest.

An 11-year-old girl abducted in Springfield was found safe and her alleged kidnapper arrested Wednesday evening after an Amber Alert was issued amid an hourslong search, Massachusetts State Police said.

Three sixth-grade boys at a Christian school in Northern Virginia pinned down a black classmate and cut off some of her dreadlocks while telling her her hair was “nappy” and “ugly,” she told News4.

Some showers and thunderstorms moved through the tri-state Thursday evening as a cold front passes hits the area, Storm Team 4 says.

Strong and gusty storms that rumbled into the city Thursday evening brought a deluge of rain, plenty of thunder, lightning — and left a trail of downed trees, damage and thousands customers on Long Island with no power.

More showers may be in the forecast for late Thursday afternoon as storms that briefly dumped torrential rain on parts of the tri-state area the day before taper off, Storm Team 4 says.

A heavily armed man has been arrested after walking into a Missouri Walmart with guns, body armor and 100 rounds of ammunition. Police say a young white man, outfitted in body armor and military fatigues and carrying a rifle and a handgun, entered the store and began to walk around.

Five days after 22 people were killed at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, panicked shoppers fled a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri, after a man carrying a rifle and wearing body armor walked around the store before being stopped by an off-duty firefighter. No shots were fired and the man was arrested after surrendering Thursday, Springfield police said. No...

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Legislation proposing the separation of Chicago from Illinois is intended to spark discussion about the overarching influence of the city in state politics, not actually lead to the creation of the 51st state, according to a central Illinois lawmaker who sponsored the measure.

Spouses and parents of Coast Guard members went on a mission through the halls of Congress on Tuesday, knocking on doors in support of an end to the partial government shutdown. News4’s David Culver reports.

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday addressed news coverage and criticism regarding his wife’s decision to return to teaching at a Virginia elementary school that explicitly bars LGBTQ employees and students, NBC News reported. “My wife and I have been in the public eye for quite a while, we’re used to the criticism,” Pence said in an interview with EWTN,...

An arsonist ambushed Oregon firefighters by torching his own house then shooting a rifle at the first responders, authorities said Thursday. Lance Taylor Jacobs, 60, eventually turned the gun on himself and ended the brief standoff early Wednesday morning in Springfield, Oregon, police said.

A Massachusetts daughter and granddaughter have been reunited with the World War II uniform of their loved one.

Kathleen Dehmlow’s obituary began like many do – but read three lines in and things take a surprising turn.

Authorities say two dead bodies have been found at the Massachusetts home of a man charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and torturing a woman.

Mirroring a plot from one of the biggest movies of the year, one woman who says she was raped two decades ago by a teacher at her upstate New York private school has decided to take matters into her own hands. Taking a cue from the Oscar-nominated film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Kat Sullivan says she decided to put…

A man tried to carjack a woman who came to his rescue after he got into a crash, then stole a car from someone pumping gas at a Wallingford Sunoco station and dragged the person as he fled, police said.