Rescue crews had to use heavy extrication equipment after a Thursday evening crash between a car and a pick-up truck in rural McLean County.… MORE
Rescue crews had to use heavy extrication equipment after a Thursday evening crash between a car and a pick-up truck in rural McLean County.… MORE
Authorities say a Farmer City woman who was found Tuesday died from diabetic complications in her home.… MORE
A Farmer City woman who went missing last week has been found dead.… MORE
A 25-year-old man was shot Sunday morning after a fight broke out on Bloomington’s south side.… MORE
A Peoria man remains behind bars after a high-speed chase that ended with the man’s car in the Illinois River.… MORE
The McLean County coroner has identified a Bloomington man as the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash on Saturday.… MORE
McLean County Coroner Kathy Yoder has identified the man who was hit and killed by a train Thursday morning in Bloomington.… MORE
A man was struck and killed by a train Thursday morning on the city’s west side, according to Bloomington Police.… MORE
The Lexington Fire Department shared more devastating information regarding the triple fatal fire that claimed the life of a family Saturday morning.… MORE
An infant, child, and their mother were killed in a fire overnight in rural Lexington.… 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…