Feds accuse ex-IL suburban top cop of laundering $1.25M
By Jayette Bolinski | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — A former Country Club Hills police chief was arraigned on federal charges Friday for allegedly laundering a $1.25 million state grant in 2009 and using it to pay off personal debt.
Read More →Week in review: WI election season in full swing
By Kirsten Adshead | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON – It’s always election season in Wisconsin, and this week was no different.
Read More →Revised redistricting maps may hold twist for PA Senate
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — The panel in charge of redrawing the state’s district lines is scheduled to meet Thursday, with the stated goal of finally voting on new district lines.
Read More →PA gov signs reforms in wake of ‘Kids-for-Cash’ scandal
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett signed two bills into law intended to protect children in Pennsylvania’s criminal court system after a major scandal in which several juveniles were incarcerated improperly.
Read More →High court: Lower courts must hear Cook Co. gun ban challenge
By Anthony Brino | Illinois Statehouse News
SPRINGFIELD — A ban on assault-style weapons can be challenged in the lower courts, which dismissed lawsuits arguing that the ban is unconstitutional, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

