State police wrote more than 1300 tickets in a three-week Move Over crackdown this year.… MORE
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State police wrote more than 1300 tickets in a three-week Move Over crackdown this year.… MORE
Bloomington police ask for the public’s help after an apartment building was struck by gunfire Wednesday evening.… MORE
Illinois’ first on-site cannabis consumption bar will soon open in Southern Illinois.… MORE
A local family is suing the Blue Ridge School District, which serves part of McLean County, after they say their child with special needs was sexually abused on a school bus.… MORE
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges the Blue Ridge School District, which serves part of McLean County, allowed a teenage student to sexually molest a first-grader with Down Syndrome.… MORE
36 people were able to escape an evening apartment complex fire in Bloomington.… MORE
Natwan Nash’s mother and fiancee say the 26-year-old was a loyal son, partner, and father with dreams of starting his own landscape business.… MORE
A 26-year-old Bloomington man has been identified as the victim of a shooting that happened Sunday night on the city’s east side.… MORE
Fire crews were called Monday morning to Brass Pig Smoke & Ale House for a fire coming from the rear of the building.… MORE
City leaders in Bloomington are asking for public input as they search for the next top cop.… 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…