Weaver pushing regional minimum wage

With last year’s passing of the minimum wage hike, one area lawmaker is pushing a bill that would allow local governments more power to opt into a regional minimum wage instead of the state-mandated one.

Chicago cops in station shooting stripped of police powers

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s interim police superintendent on Wednesday stripped two officers of their police powers pending the outcome of the investigation into their roles in the non-fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect inside of a downtown

One injured after police pursuit

A Rock Island man was injured and had to be Life Flighted after a single-vehicle accident, following a police pursuit, in Galesburg.