WASHINGTON - The financial sector, blamed by progressives for spawning the 2008 economic collapse, is lining up behind Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign.
CHICAGO - The Illinois Republican Party is ramping up efforts to make voters aware that an anti-Semitic activist and Holocaust denier who won the GOP nomination two years ago is once again a candidate for the U.S. Congress, officials said.
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year, including from countries it had not heard from before - suggesting that the worst may be yet to come in a crisis that has plagued the Roman Catholic Church.
A Springfield man was taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries after his home in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood caught fire Friday morning.
Cynthia Fuchs, 70, of Springfield, who pleaded guilty to stealing money from the Springfield-based Federation of Independent Colleges and Universities, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison by Circuit Judge Adam Giganti.
