Morgan Co. breaking ground on new judicial building next week
| IL Staff
Morgan County will break ground Monday on a new $45 million judicial building, marking the first step of a $72 million judicial campus project.

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Morgan County will break ground Monday on a new $45 million judicial building, marking the first step of a $72 million judicial campus project.
The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs, a ruling the pork industry says will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork chops and bacon.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an organization of Puerto Rican journalists in its quest for documents from the financial oversight board created to deal with the island territory’s bankruptcy.
Migrants rushed across the Mexico border Thursday, racing to enter the U.S. before pandemic-related asylum restrictions were lifted in a shift that threatens to put a historic strain on the nation’s beleaguered immigration system.
New York’s attorney general sued a gun accessory manufacturer Thursday for selling a lock that can be easily removed to attach high-capacity magazines, which are illegal in the state.
Crystal Wildeman has been selected as the newest magistrate judge in the Evansville Division of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, the court announced Thursday.
The Indiana Judicial Nominating Commission will interview 10 applicants for the upcoming vacancy on the Indiana Tax Court on May 23.
The Court of Appeals of Indiana has affirmed the revocation of a man’s probation, finding the defendant violated his probation by failing drug tests and committing new offenses in Ohio.
The Indiana Supreme Court will not consider two cases involving transgender children whose parents’ petitions to change their gender markers on their birth certificates were denied.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a man’s claims of racial bias in jury selection for his felon in possession of a weapon case and affirmed a lower court’s ruling Wednesday.
U.S. Sen. Todd Young of Indiana told reporters in Washington, D.C., Thursday that he won’t support fellow Republican Donald Trump in his 2024 run for the GOP presidential nomination.
Court of Appeals of Indiana
Chad E. Hammann v. State of Indiana
22A-CR-2210
Criminal. Affirms the Dearborn Circuit Court’s revocation of Chad Hammann’s probation. Finds the trial court did not err by denying Hammann’s motion to dismiss. Also finds Hammann was not deprived of his due process right to written notice of the claimed violations of probation. Finally, finds the evidence is sufficient to support the revocation.
An Indiana prosecutor and former judge have each announced their plans to seek congressional office in 2024.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a transgender Guatemalan woman who is fighting deportation on the grounds that she would face persecution if returned to her native country.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a onetime top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others who were convicted of corruption related to an economic development project known as the “Buffalo Billion.”
A sheriff’s deputy died after being attacked in her Indianapolis home by a dog that also bit and wounded her 8-year-old son, authorities said Wednesday.
The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step. But behind the scenes, several core aspects of America’s pandemic-era emergency safety net are also coming to a close.
This week marks the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly expel migrants at the southern border for the last three years.
U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he duped donors, stole from his campaign and lied to Congress about being a millionaire, all while cheating to collect unemployment benefits he didn’t deserve.
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate on Wednesday after a two-and-a-half-month absence due to illness.