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By Benjamin Cox on May 7, 2021 at 9:48am The Cass County Sheriff’s Office is hoping a new program will help young people get positive interactions with local law enforcement. Cass County Sheriff Devron Ohrn announced the community-oriented Sheriff’s Working with Adolescents Together program last year, or SWAT in an effort to build and maintain positive, close relationships with the youth of the county. Ohrn says he hopes events planned with the group will help foster those relationships in the coming years. He says that adolescents who have positive interactions with poli...

Law enforcement groups say legislation handcuffs authorities, but backers say it's needed Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail Law enforcement authorities say they are worried new justice reform legislation will embolden criminals as well as put a financial burden on smaller agencies.Jose Maria Hernandez Law enforcement authorities see some good elements in a bill signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and intended to reform Illinois’ criminal justice system, but they say other elements will only handcuff them in trying to do their job. The legislation mandates t...

A Virginia man faces multiple murder charges in the aftermath of a shooting that left a former girlfriend and another woman dead at a Virginia residence Sunday afternoon. Robert D. Harris, 71, of Virginia was formally charged Tuesday with six counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm in Cass County court. Harris, who is being held in the Morgan County Jail in Jacksonville because Cass County does not have a jail, appeared before the county's resident judge, Timothy J. Wessel, in person. The victims, Kathleen G. Wzientek...

VIRGINIA, Ill. (AP) — Authorities in central Illinois on Monday identified two women...