Fourteen members and associates of a western Massachusetts street gang have been arrested on federal drug trafficking and firearms charges.

Two Illinois men arrested in Colorado last September have pleaded guilty to illegally killing a bull elk.

A former assistant pastor of a southeastern Pennsylvania church faces sentencing on charges that he sexually assaulted young girls nearly three decades ago.

Voters will be asked to change the state constitution in the awarding of grants and loans for sewer and water districts.

The governor's office says Congress has picked Illinois to join a program that helps military families in need.

The 27-7 roll call by which the Missouri Senate voted Thursday to approve legislation penalizing illegal immigrants and their employers.

The president of the Springfield City Council says he will ask the school board to reconsider its plan to put all failing eighth-graders in a special school.

Remains found near an Illinois highway have been identified as those of a former central New York woman who was last seen three years ago in a Las Vegas suburb.

Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders says the biggest problem in U.S. health care is ignorance and poverty.

Washington politicos are cause of high gas prices