APNewsBreak: Comptroller orders IT contract progress reports

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza has suspended $5.7 million in payments on an online state-employee health insurance program, a project so botched it also prompted her to begin

Report: Felony conviction may keep man off city council

ZEIGLER, Ill. (AP) — A man who won a seat on a southern Illinois community’s city council after running unopposed may have an opponent after all: the law. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports under the law James