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Carol Ammons Aaron Ammons

Capitol News Illinois

Ammons, husband pleads not guilty to corruption charges

URBANA — State Rep. Carol Ammons and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, entered not guilty pleas to federal corruption charges Thursday while their supporters claimed their prosecutions were racially motivated. The two were charged in an indictment handed down July 7 in the Central District of Illinois. They made initial appearances in separate hearings before a federal magistrate judge who summarized the charges and explained their rights. Their trial was tentatively set for Sept. 22, although that is likely to […]

todayJuly 16, 2026 23

Illinois shooting Robert Crimo III

Chicagoland Region

Illinois police: July 4 parade mass shooter in custody

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (UPI) -- A man wanted in connection with the slaying of six people at an Independence Day parade north of Chicago, Illinois on Monday was taken into custody eight hours after the incident, authorities announced. Robert Crimo III, 22, identified earlier in the day as a "person of interest" in connection to the mass shooting, was pulled over in Lake Forest, Ill., and arrested without incident after a brief pursuit, Highland Park, Ill., Police Chief Louis Jogmen […]

todayJuly 5, 2022 77

The Crypto Six

Commentary

The Crypto Six: An open letter

Dear readers, This is no usual commentary piece. It is more of a letter of outrage toward a corrupt federal government and its groups of domestic terrorists. I specifically mention the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These thugs bombarded a house owned by Ian Freeman, talk show host of Free Talk Live and the first radio personality to promote Bitcoin on the air, on March 16 of this year. They ransacked his home, terrorized Freeman's […]

todayJune 29, 2021 144

National

Michigan arrests 14th person over plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

LANSING, Mich. (UPI) -- Authorities in Michigan said they have arrested a 14th person charged in the domestic terrorism plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The state's Attorney General Dana Nessel announced in a release Thursday that Brian Higgins, 51, of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., has been charged "for his alleged participation in a plan of domestic terrorism that included storming the Michigan Capitol building and harming government officials." Higgins was arrested Thursday in Wisconsin and is awaiting extradited to Michigan […]

todayOctober 16, 2020 28

Entertainment

Feds charge two men in cold-case homicide of Run-DMC member Jam-Master Jay

NEW YORK (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors released murder charges for two men Monday in the cold-case 2002 killing of former Run-DMC hip-hop star and deejay Jam-Master Jay, one of New York's most well-known unsolved murders. Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan, Jr. were indicted by a grand jury Monday in what federal prosecutors described as a "drug-related homicide." Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, 37, was shot and killed at his recording studio in Queens on Oct. 30, 2002. Mizell […]

todayAugust 17, 2020 28

Illinois

Illinois

Man found guilty of 2017 killing of Chinese student at University of Illinois

PEORIA (UPI) -- A Federal jury found Brendt Christensen guilty of kidnapping and killing University of Illinois scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017. Jurors required less than 90 minutes Monday to find the former teaching assistant guilty of kidnapping resulting in a death and two counts of lying to investigators. The same jury will decide July 8 if he should receive the death penalty. During a news conference following the verdict, Zhang's mother broke down in tears. "We have missed Yingying […]

todayJune 25, 2019 77

National

Former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman sentenced to 10 years in prison

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Former Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for using charitable donations for his own personal and campaign expenses. Stockman, 61, also was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay more than $1 million in restitution for orchestrating a four-year scheme to defraud big-money donors to secretly funnel the funds to himself and his campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said. "Former Congressman Stockman was entrusted by his […]

todayNovember 7, 2018 46

Decision 2018

Illinois’ congressional delegations split on significance of FISA abuse memo

WASHINGTON (Illinois News Network) -- Illinois’ congressional delegation is split along party lines on whether the controversial memo released Friday exposes inherent bias in the FBI against the Trump administration or if it’s meant to undermine law enforcement investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The Republican-crafted memo was released Friday after it got the green light to be declassified from the White House. It alleges leadership at the FBI and the Department of Justice […]

todayFebruary 6, 2018 81

Commentary

COMMENTARY: Trump IS NOT remotely close to being a “libertarian” president

Shortly after 11 PM last night, I received an alert from Google with an as-it-happens update (as that is a way we do find our news sometimes) and the headline from this particular article made me want to puke because the word was taken way out of context. I'm referring to an article written by The American Conservative and Red Alert Politics columnist Ryan Girdusky, entitled "Donald Trump: The Most Libertarian President Since Silent Cal." Nothing can be further from […]

todayJanuary 8, 2018 85

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