Three dozen people filtered into that room at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6. Small conversations here and there, but mostly quiet whispers while people moved to sit down in rows of blue-cushiond wooden ...

ALEDO, Ill. — After launching in late 2023, Mercer County's specialty Drug Court Program marked a milestone last month with its very first graduate. “This was the best day of my entire career,” said ...

Two years ago, Kelly Cordier woke up in a jail cell convinced his life was over. Alcohol had stripped away nearly everything — his confidence, his self-respect and any belief that ...