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A 2-hour standoff with police Friday ends with no injuries and a Pontiac man facing preliminary weapons and aggravated assault charges after his surrender to officers The Pantagraph reports Pontiac po...

A political stunner! Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced she will not run for re-election next year.Madigan made the surprise announcement even though she had previously said she plans to...

A second arrest has made in fatal Bloomington hit and run. 22-year-old Jakeb C.S. Collins now faces charges in connection with Wednesday's deadly hit and run on Morrissey Drive in Bloomington.  C...

A Bloomington man will likely stay behind bars after his second DUI in a month killed a woman. Darin Scott is due in court today to answer for a deadly Wednesday wreck that killed one woman and injure...

More than 60 percent of school kids in Illinois still can't read or add at grade level. But the latest standardized test scores in the state show some slight gains. The Illinois State Board of Educati...

The body of the man found in a creek by the Constitution Trail has been identified as Marcus D. Bivens, age 33, of Bloomington, Illinois. Preliminary autopsy findings indicate that Bivens died fr...

Bloomington City Manager David Hales certainly has a lot of resumes out there. The Joliet Herald-News is reporting that Hales is a finalist for the same job there. Several weeks ago it was reported Ha...

School-aged kids concerned about deportation based on their family's citizenship status were told they have nothing to worry about while attending Bloomington District 87 schools. The District 87 scho...

54 year-old Darin Scott of Bloomington is in police custody in connection with a fatal two-vehicle crash Wednesday morning on Bloomington's southeast side in the area of Morrissey Drive and Chrisman L...

Governor Bruce Rauner is personally leading the sales pitch to bring Amazon's new headquarters to the state.  The governor's office yesterday said the governor reached out himself to speak with A...