The Justice Department may have violated a candor rule by not disclosing a 1980 law when seeking a warrant for a Washington Post reporter’s home.

A new Kansas law withheld information from the public in a recent Linn County criminal case, raising concerns about the ...

A district court judge in Deer Lodge County denied last week a motion by a group of Montana media organizations that sought to access court records related to Michael Brown’s alleged killing of four ...

The Justice Department released more new documents on Jan. 30 from the Jeffrey Epstein files, more than a month after the DOJ ...

State law enforcement say federal authorities physically prevented them from investigating a U.S. Border Patrol agent's fatal shooting of a Minneapolis man. The Minnesota BCA said they had a signed ...

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A Florida man accused of killing three tourists near Magic Kingdom had a lengthy criminal and mental health history, including a prior attempted first-degree murder case in which he was found not ...

Illinois will begin a process to automatically seal criminal records for millions of adults in the state, after Gov. JB Pritzker signed the ‘Clean Slate’ Act on Friday. Critics objected to the ...

This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. CHICAGO — Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically ...

An estimated 2 million Illinois residents who’ve served their sentences for nonviolent offenses will become eligible to have their state criminal records automatically sealed from public view ...

Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed after Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed the long-debated “Clean Slate” Act. House Bill ...