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 ...

Jackee Taylor was 7 years old when she entered the Witness Protection Program in 1981, and she has remained in it for over 40 years. Her father, Clarence "Butch" Crouch, was a member of the Cleveland ...

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 ...

A bipartisan General Assembly took an important step to fight crime in our communities last year by finally funding a witness protection program in Virginia. The budget agreement approved in September ...

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 ...

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 ...

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For years, the hard-headed Irish-American gangster Frank Smith complained that he couldn’t catch a break — despite the valiant efforts of his loving mother and sister — as he served time in prison for ...

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 ...

FLINT, MI – The city is hoping to put federal relief funds toward a program that would keep witnesses at risk of being harmed during criminal matters safe during pending court processes. Flint Mayor ...

Jeremy Dowdy is a crime victim with a permanent physical scar that he hides with a hat. The front part of his head is deformed from a bullet that nearly killed him in September 2013. "It is just so ...

Facing mounting criticism from Republicans over a rise in violent crime, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has proposed spending $20 million on a long-neglected witness protection program for people whose ...