Police are investigating a shooting that damaged a residence and a vehicle on Bloomington’s west side.… MORE
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Police are investigating a shooting that damaged a residence and a vehicle on Bloomington’s west side.… MORE
Normal Police responded to the Lancaster Heights Apartment Complex around 4:00 pm Sunday to a report of someone stabbed.… MORE
Sergeant Tim Power, who led the investigation into a 2018 shooting that left three dead and a child unable to walk, testified in a McLean County courtroom on Friday.… MORE
On day four of a triple murder trial in McLean County, witnesses told prosecutors they could not remember specific details they told police nearly three years ago.… MORE
Several people who heard gunfire during a 2018 triple murder took the stand in McLean County on Tuesday. Sydney Mays is charged with first degree murder and attempted murder in the shooting that killed three and seriously injured a child.… MORE
An Indiana man has posted bond and was released Tuesday morning from the McLean County Jail on charges he sexually assaulted a teenager at a party in Normal.… MORE
Police in McLean County’s third largest community of LeRoy have arrested a woman who authorities think may have been writing fake checks to steal from businesses in Bloomington-Normal to Champaign-Urbana.… MORE
Police are investigating a shooting that happened Saturday on Bloomington’s west side.… MORE
Additional prison time has been ordered for a Bloomington man who is almost done serving a sentence for killing his father in the Twin-Cities 30 years ago.… MORE
Authorities say they have arrested a 67-year-old woman in the alleged shooting death of her husband.… 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…