By HOI ABC BLOOMINGTON – ISU graduate student Jelani Day was reported missing under unknown circumstances on Aug 25. A few days after Day was reported missing his car was found in a wooded area south of the Illinois Valley YMCA. The white 2010 Chrysler 300 contained clothing Day wore the day before he was reported…… MORE
The message has always been the same – don’t drink and drive. However, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) says it’s still a problem, especially over longer holidays.… MORE
A fugitive who’s been on the loose since running from a car crash in rural Hudson early Tuesday morning is in police custody.… MORE
By HOI ABC HUDSON – The McLean County Sheriff’s Office said a man who fled apparently shoeless from a rural Hudson crash scene early Tuesday morning was still on the loose and might still be in the Hudson area. On the sheriff’s department’s Facebook page, police released a new photograph of Brian Morgan, who’s wanted on several…… MORE
By HOI ABC BLOOMINGTON – Family members are still searching for missing Illinois State University graduate student Jelani “J.J.” Day more than a week after he was reported missing. Carmen Bolden Day, Jelani’s mother, said she last spoke to him Aug. 23. She said they were planning a family trip for Thanksgiving. “He said ‘Mama, I…… MORE
Bloomington police report a Bloomington man died from injuries he suffered by an alleged drunk driver.… MORE
Bloomington Police are probing a shots-fired incident that happened on Tuesday.… MORE
The McLean County Sheriff’s Office is on the lookout for a man police say should be considered dangerous after he ran from a car crash in rural Hudson early Tuesday morning.… MORE
By Neil Doyle NORMAL – A man and woman in their 60s and a woman in her 50s have been identified after a shooting Monday afternoon at a mobile home park in north Normal. McLean County Coroner Kathy Yoder pronounced all three dead at the scene: 66-year-old Ronald Reiner, 64-year-old Sharon Reiner, and 59-year-old Julie…… MORE
A Bloomington man remains behind bars in McLean County on DUI charges after authorities say he was involved in a pedestrian hit and run over the weekend.… 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…