Category Archives: News

A Champaign roofing firm and its owner have been found guilty of visa fraud and harboring immigrants who entered the country illegally. Edwin J. Gire, owner of Gire Roofing Inc. and its parent company...

There are apparently a lot of Illinois parents who want to send their kids to private school. Empower Illinois is one of the groups that is helping to run Illinois' new tax credit scholarship program....

24 year-old Jesse S. Duncan of Bloomington is behind bars following his arrest on several drug charges including the manufacture/delivery of cocaine and heroin. Members of BPD's Vice Unit and Street C...

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner says he wants to focus this year on the places where Illinois lawmakers agree. Maybe that's why his State of the State speech yesterday was less than 40 minutes long. Th...

A piano teacher accused of molesting a teenage girl is being held on a $1 million dollar bond. Aaron Parlier taught piano to kids for many years in Bloomington-Normal. A judge refused to reduce Parlie...

Good afternoon: President Cullerton, Speaker Madigan, Leader Brady, Leader Durkin, Lieutenant Governor Sanguinetti, Attorney General Madigan, Secretary White, Comptroller Mendoza, Treasurer Frerichs, ...

Christine Roush of Washington was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for the July 2017 stabbing death of her biological mother. According to the McLean County Circuit Clerk's Office, Roush was ...

A train carrying members of Congress to a Republican retreat in West Virginia slammed into a dump truck on Wednesday, throwing lawmakers from their seats and leaving at least one person dead, sources ...

Four people are in the McLean County Jail on meth charges. They are: Sharon McCarty, Carrie Johnson, David Hardy, and Billy King. The Bloomington Police Department's Vice Unit and Street Crimes Unit h...

OSF Life Flight will base a helicopter at OSF HealthCare St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington and OSF HealthCare Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center in Pontiac to better serve residents of...