CHICAGO — For the second year in a row, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that went unfunded for the first nine years ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is finally taking steps to fulfill the promise made by the 2021 SAFE-T Act, the so-called criminal justice reform package, by proposing $20 million to fund the state of Illinois’ ...

In Lewiston, Maine, a man who called himself Abraham helped his neighbors with the trash and rode dirt bikes with his friend. His old life in New York City got him killed. By Ali Watkins The plea by a ...

Fairfax County is getting a $25,000 grant that the top prosecutor in the Virginia suburb said will be used to offer security and support to victims and witnesses in criminal trials. The funding is ...

Virginia’s prolonged budget-amendment process has finally come to a close, resulting in compromises on both sides of the political aisle. As prosecutors, we are glad to see the budget include an ...

It is both heartbreaking and infuriating that the man accused of killing three people in downtown Norfolk in March may never see the inside of a courtroom. Charges against him were dropped on Nov. 1 ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The Flint Police Department has another tool to help fight crime. City leaders gave the green light to spend federal dollars on a witness protection program. It's a program law ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — In just six days, the $1 million budgeted for Virginia’s witness protection program kicks in. The Commonwealth has had a program on the books since 1994, but never the funding ...

Administrators of the U.S. witness protection program are holding a conference with their foreign counterparts this week, helping them devise similar protections for witnesses who could be targeted ...

Prosecutor General Richard Anthony Fadullon on Thursday clarified that mere submission of a sworn statement is not enough for someone to be accepted into the government’s Witness Protection Program ...

On Chicago’s South Side, even a funeral is not reliable refuge from ceaseless bursts of gunfire that make everyday living so perilous in parts of this city. About 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, people were ...