A Wilkinson County Middle School physical education teacher remains in jail after being charged with aggravated assault and a dozen counts of child cruelty, authorities confirmed Thursday.

Jamel Ashley faces multiple child cruelty charges after allegedly holding scissors to a student’s neck in front of other students; he remains jailed awaiting bond. Hillary Clinton breaks silence ...

who took a new job with the Children’s Advocacy Center of Illinois. Wilkinson is a 2004 graduate of Edwardsville High School, who received a bachelor’s degree in health care administration ...

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The other 25% are children who receive child care and home visits because they are too young for preschool. About 8,700 Illinois residents are employed by the program statewide, according to the suit.

CHATHAM, Illinois — Four children were killed and several more were injured when a car smashed through a building during an after-school program Monday afternoon in a town outside of ...

WOOD RIVER — Child abuse is preventable, and sometimes all it takes is one caring adult. That was one of the messages emphasized Friday during a kick-off event for Illinois Child Abuse ...

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (KFVS) - April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and the public is invited to participate in awareness events in southern Illinois. Members of the Union County Child Abuse ...

The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is now under scrutiny for its lack of proper reporting on child abuse and neglect cases, according to a report from the ...

sharing that she learned in therapy that she has “unhealthy thoughts” about being intimate. Holmes questioned Wilkinson about being a teen at the Playboy Mansion, asking, “How did that have ...