"Serious concerns" for children's safety have been raised over plans to build more than a 100 homes in a field in a Somerset village. A decision on 125 homes built on Farleigh Fields, Backwell, is to ...

Illinois lawmakers proposed a bill that would have required families to notify schools that they would be homeschooling their children. The bill received over 40,000 witness slips in opposition.

A 6-year-old girl is fighting for her life today after being shot and taken to a neighbor by an Illinois man who allegedly killed five other people, including two children.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man accused of stabbing a state child welfare worker to death as she was making a home visit to check on children has been ...