Author: Grace Hauck, USA TODAY

A federal class action suit filed Thursday alleges the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services wrongly incarcerated hundreds of children.

Authorities identified the person killed by law enforcement and released an image of the scene that appears to show a hammock covered by a tarp.

Seventy-six people have been charged in a “massive” drug trafficking conspiracy tied to overdose deaths in Georgia, according to a federal indictment.

Six months since the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade left seven dead, Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday passed an assault weapons ban.

The DOJ is appealing a decision that found the federal government responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

Dozens of people died in the blizzard that pummeled western New York, and families are beginning to speak out about the tragic losses.