With provisional and mail-in ballots still being processed, four Chicago school board seats remain undecided until final certification later this month.

Joseph Owusu, 24, was found dead inside a duffel bag abandoned on a Brooklyn sidewalk after surveillance footage captured two people removing the bag from a white sedan and leaving it behind. His family is demanding answers as police investigate his death.

Democratic Senate candidate Scott Colom flipped Forrest County, Mississippi, a county named after the Ku Klux Klan's first grand wizard, in his closely contested race against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Five-time GRAMMY winner talks music, hometown pride and riding CTA with her Walkman Lalah Hathaway, the Chicago-born R&B superstar and five-time GRAMMY winner, discusses her...

Michael Sanft, defense attorney for convicted 'shot-caller' Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the Tupac Shakur murder trial, has died.

Cindy Hyde-Smith and Scott Colom's campaigns are disputing how thousands of affidavit ballots should be handled as Mississippi's Senate race remains undecided. Voting rights advocates are also urging voters to take steps to ensure their ballots are counted.

For The Chicago Defender, our colleague and friend Samantha Chatman reflects on her father, DJ Sam Chatman, a pioneer who helped bring Chicago stepping to audiences around...

With a school closure moratorium nearing its end and financial pressures mounting, the city's first fully elected board faces decisions that could reshape public...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is commuting all 548 death sentences in the state to life without parole, citing concerns about capital punishment and the criminal justice system.

Jacqueline Kelly, a former federal prosecutor who oversaw investigations involving Sean “Diddy” Combs, will lead the criminal investigation into allegations that seven Cornell fraternity members sexually assaulted a former student in 2024.

Scott Colom is a longtime Mississippi prosecutor seeking to become the state's first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. Get to know his background, legal career, policy priorities and historic Senate campaign.

Over 72 percent of Chicago voters supported the return of gunshot detection technology in a recent advisory referendum, putting pressure on the Johnson administration to solidify its public safety plan.