The Latest Breaking News from Springfield

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

Attorneys say the family of an Illinois man whose death prompted murder charges against two paramedics who strapped him facedown on a stretcher has filed a lawsuit against them and their employer

Peter Cadigan, 50, and Peggy Finley, 40, strapped Earl Moore Jr., who was experiencing hallucinations, face down onto a gurney in December, authorities say. He later died.

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon quoted both his late mother, who worried “that Springfield will change your notion of what the right thing is,” and former Chicago Police Supt. James Rochford, who once warned officers “If you lack integrity, get out — get out now.”

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House gave final approval Tuesday to a comprehensive measure to ban military style firearms that was drafted by Democrats, which now awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature even as gun rights advocates contend it is unconstitutional and vow a legal challenge.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Seeking to build on the successes of his four years in office, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker offered a second-term agenda Monday that called for a state constitutional right to abortion, making preschool available to every family and making public college free for children in working-class families.