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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jackee Taylor has been in the US Witness Protection Program since she was 7. Now 51, Taylor is opening up about how difficult her life has been because of the program. She didn't ask to be a part of ...

NORFOLK, Va. — News 3 has been investigating the lack of funds to protect witnesses in the state of Virginia for more than two years now. Many times, a witness of a crime wants to cooperate with 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 ...

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 ...