This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers and the Chicago bureau of MindSite News. Bloomington native Shayla ...

Illinois counties have continued to launch new mental health courts, and advocates call for more. Champaign County is the ...

Shreveport Police released a timeline for the mass shooting that occurred on the morning of April 19. The suspect, Shamar Elkins, is believed to have shot multiple people at two locations before ...

A Louisiana man who murdered eight children, including seven of his own, and injured his wife and another woman before police killed him on Sunday, publicly begged God to guard his mind and emotions ...

(CNN) — On Easter Sunday, Shamar Elkins posed for a photo with his seven children in their matching church outfits – most of the girls in white button-down sweaters with pink stripes, the boys in sky ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — A tentative funeral date has been set for the eight children shot and killed Shreveport Sunday morning. The service is scheduled for May 23, with the location pending. The bodies of ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — A tentative funeral date has been set for the eight children shot and killed Shreveport Sunday morning. The service is scheduled for May 23 at the Shreveport Convention Center, ...

The victims of the shooting have been identified as Jayla and Shayla Elkins; Kayla, Layla and Markaydon Pugh; Sariahh, Khedarrion and Braylon Snow Shamar Elkins/Facebook; Shreveport Police ...

Teacher Angela Hall always starts the day gathering her preschool students in a circle in their Shreveport, Louisiana, classroom. The kids giggle. They share. And they look for who’s missing. “Braylon ...