By HOI ABC NORMAL – Normal Police say a man is in protective custody after being in a standoff with police for almost two hours Sunday evening. Normal Police Chief Rick Bleichner said they called in crisis negotiations after there was a report of a man in a yard at the 1200 block of Brentwood…… MORE
During a federal sentencing hearing in Peoria, authorities tracked a handgun from the time it was stolen in McLean County, a shooting in Peoria, to the coat pocket of a man sentenced to prison Friday for carrying that gun.… MORE
Bloomington Police are probing a shooting incident late Thursday night.… MORE
By Blake Haas TAZEWELL COUNTY – The Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying recent thefts of multiple stop signs in the county. During the week of May 19, Heritage Lake reported eight stop signs and poles, one speed “bump ahead,” and the large decorative Heritage Lake entrance sign was…… MORE
Local leaders are speaking out after a variety of shootings in the twin cities this summer.… MORE
By Neil Doyle NORMAL – Normal Police are probing a shots fired incident that happened Monday night about three miles from the Illinois State University campus. ISU police issued a campus crime advisory after police were called around 5 p.m. to an apartment complex located at 710 W. Orlando Ave. The shots were also reported…… MORE
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
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…