For the second year in a row, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that went unfunded for the first nine years of its existence.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jackee Taylor was 7 years old when she entered the Witness Protection Program in 1981, and she has remained in it for over 40 ...

Administrators of the U.S. witness protection program are holding a conference with their foreign counterparts this week, helping them devise similar protections for witnesses who could be targeted ...

New video video shows the moments before a deadly family feud in central Fresno four years ago. The footage reveals a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities throughout America and set off a series of national crises. As Virginia prosecutors, we have seen one such crisis first-hand: a significant, nationwide ...

Police departments have tapped only $14,647 from the fund. Police in Kansas City have used some of the money to rent hotel rooms for crime victims who would be in danger if they remained in their ...

In Lewiston, Maine, a man who called himself Abraham helped his neighbors with the trash and rode dirt bikes with his friend. His old life in New York City got him killed. By Ali Watkins The plea by a ...

In order to dispense justice effectively, courts rely heavily on the testimony of witnesses, often the victims of the crime themselves. It has been said that witnesses and victims are the eyes and ...

Jackee Taylor was 7 years old when she entered the Witness Protection Program in 1981, and she has remained in it for over 40 years. Her father, Clarence "Butch" Crouch, was a member of the Cleveland ...