The Latest Breaking News from Springfield

About 20 cars of a Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield Saturday evening, the second derailment of the company’s trains in Ohio in a month, officials said

CHICAGO — On Thursday morning, about 100 people walked the two blocks from St. Gall Catholic Church in Gage Park, paying their respects at the block where Chicago police Officer Andres Vasquez-Lasso was shot and killed Wednesday. Later in the day, lawmakers in Springfield paused for a moment of silence.

The Packers’ flop in the season finale against the Lions cost a Springfield couple $600,000 in a seasonlong contest.

Springfield Properties was fined £10,000 for breaking safety laws at one site but campaigners want their other building sites to be looked at.

A sit-down interview with Natalie Phelps Finnie, the new director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, in Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD — An Illinois appellate court on Tuesday upheld a downstate judge’s decision to temporarily block Illinois’ recently enacted ban on high-powered weapons and high-capacity magazines from being enforced on more than 850 people and a handful of licensed gun dealers named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the ban.

Thomas B. Adams, Jr. was found guilty of entering a restricted building and obstructing an official proceeding.

Springfield Properties – run by ­multi-millionaire Sandy Adam – was forced to pay a £10,000 fine after breaking safety laws at a building site in Milton of Campsie, ­Stirlingshire.

Footage from the crash site in Springfield, Illinois in the US shows a number of emergency responders scouring the crash site after a man ploughed into a car going the wrong way down the motorway