BALTIMORE — A judge has dismissed some of the charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and all charges against a councilwoman indicted in a probe of city finances.

ATLANTA — A former University of Georgia professor had secretly recorded a conversation with his wife about her apparent affair with an economist before he shot both of them and another man to death outside a community theater, according to police d

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska's governor has signed a bill to change the state's method of execution from electrocution to lethal injection.

A reputed mobster who went to federal prison in an early 1990s crackdown on suburban Chicago organized crime has been indicted along with a Cicero police officer and five others in a racketeering case.

ST. LOUIS — Tyson Foods Inc. has agreed to donate up to 1.7 million pounds of chicken to Illinois food banks to settle a lawsuit that claimed the world's biggest meat producer artificially inflated the retail weight of its poultry.

Construction sites in Cook County are about to get greener.

A new report estimates that Illinois spends $4.8 billion annually on substance abuse and addiction. Only 4 percent of that goes toward prevention and treatment.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris says he'll reveal in the "very near future" whether he will run for a full term.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois lawmakers have voted to bar people from texting or checking e-mail while driving. Now it's up to Gov. Pat Quinn to decide whether the ban will become law.

Memphis athletic director R.C. Johnson Thursday defended the Tigers men's basketball program of any wrongdoings but wouldn't confirm that Derrick Rose is the player at the center of alleged major NCAA violations.