More than 130 soldiers of the Litchfield-based Illinois Army National Guard are deploying overseas to conduct security ...

A former member of the Illinois National Guard has pleaded guilty to attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Joseph ...

Kylan Boswell scored 17 points to lead five players in double figures as No. 17 Illinois rolled to an 83-74 Big Ten victory over visiting Northwestern Sunday afternoon in Champaign, Ill.

President Donald Trump fired the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday, removing the first woman to lead a branch of the American military. The Trump administration removed Admiral Linda Fagan ...

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan has been relieved from her duties as the service's top officer by the incoming Trump administration. In a Coast Guard-wide message sent out Tuesday morning ...

However, after Florida National Guard soldiers, Florida Highway Patrol troopers and Florida Fish and Wildlife and Conservation Commission officers — as well as more Coast Guard and Customs ...

The Coast Guard will surge additional resources to the “Gulf of America” and several other locations, the service said in a statement Tuesday, after the Trump administration sacked its top ...

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The Defense Department, Coast Guard and National Security Council referred questions to the Department of Homeland Security. Fagan was the first female service chief of a U.S.military branch.

SULLIVAN, Ill. - The Illinois Army National Guard’s 634th Brigade Support Battalion Forward Logistics Element was activated Jan. 20 for deployment to Africa and Europe. A forward logistics ...

The statement blamed Fagan for what it said was an “ineffective deployment of Coast Guard assets to support national border security, especially in interdicting fentanyl and other illicit ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has fired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department ...