By HOI ABC BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police say a woman was wounded in a shooting Monday evening on the city’s east side. Police said they were called about 7:30 p.m. to a report of several shots fired in the 1300 block of North Hershey Road, near Clearwater Avenue. The woman suffered non-life threatening injuries, according…… MORE
A Peoria man shot multiple times on Sept. 19 in the area of 19 Traders Circle has died from his injuries.… MORE
Bloomington Police detectives are probing a shooting incident early Friday morning.… MORE
By HOI ABC BLOOMINGTON – Bloomington Police went to Minnesota this week to return a murder suspect to the Twin-Cities where he’ll stand trial. Kentrell Brown, 18, faces three murder charges for the shooting March 7 that killed Natwan Nash, 26, of Bloomington. Nash suffered multiple gunshot wounds at an apartment complex in the 2400…… MORE
Authorities confirmed that the body found floating in the Illinois River weeks ago was identified as missing Illinois State University student Jelani Day.… MORE
A Bloomington attorney will be suspended for nine months.… MORE
By Neil Doyle CLINTON – DeWitt County Coroner Randy Rice has identified the person that drowned in the Clinton Lake. Alan W. Bell, 65, of Clinton, was pronounced dead Tuesday at 10:40 a.m. at the Valley Mill Fishing Access, according to Rice. Rice says the truck that Bell was driving went partially down an embankment…… MORE
A Wisconsin man involved in a standoff on U.S. 51 last week has been released on bond.… MORE
The body of an older Clinton man was recovered from Clinton Lake on Wednesday.… MORE
Car theft is on the rise in the twin cities, and a Normal Police spokesperson is calling it “a crime of opportunity.”… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…