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 ...

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 ...

HARRISBURG, PA. (WHTM) – Founded 35 years ago, the Victim Witness Assistance Program helps victims navigate the court system at what is often the most difficult time of their lives. A celebration was ...

Some of them even committed their crimes while in the program, IG says. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs ...

California’s witness protection program is out of money, and the reason why couldn’t be more ironic. The 1998 statute that created it did so by tapping surplus money in the state’s victim compensation ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Operation Bold Blue Line on Monday. Right now, the Commonwealth doesn’t have a funded Witness Protection Program. “There is really nothing else that ...

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 ...

DANVILLE -- A new location has revamped the Montour County victim-witness program, enabling it better serve those traumatized by crime. To celebrate its move within the courthouse, as well as National ...

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 ...