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 ...

HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — Thousands of people across Virginia find themselves torn between doing what’s right and staying alive. While court systems across the commonwealth have victim services ...

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 ...

To combat gang intimidation of witnesses in criminal trials, Durham County is looking to establish what is believed to be the state's first witness-protection program. The city and county officials ...

In the U.S., some victims and witnesses of violent crime face real dangers for cooperating with the criminal justice system and this fact severely limits the criminal justice system’s ability to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...