Category Archives: News

A piece of aging infrastructure could see some major improvements in the Twin Cities. Normal Town Council will meet Tuesday to consider resurfacing the Division street underpass. The nearly 2-hundred ...

Illinois doesn't have a new state budget, but it does have a new official state artifact. Nearly 200 news laws took effect yesterday. Along with official recognition that the pirogue is the official s...

Authorities are trying to identify a man found dead following a vacant house fire in Woodford County.  Officials say the victim was discovered Saturday inside a burned out home next to the Kappa ...

The murder count in Chicago is already underway. Chicago Police say they saw the city's first two murders about 4:30 in the morning yesterday. It started as an argument at a bar and ended with a shoot...

Illinois' debt will begin to grow by leaps and bound starting Sunday.  The state's temporary budget is set to expire at the end of 2016.  Lawmakers say there's little hope for a new budget a...

A productive discussion... that's what Bloomington's Police Chief says he would like to see happen between himself and the city's Black Lives Matter activists. Chief Heffner attended a Black Lives Mat...

Federal prosecutors say they don't have a problem putting former Congressman Aaron Schock on trial in the summer.  The U.S. Attorney's Office yesterday didn't object to Schock's request to move h...

Illinois is getting new laws that deal with everything from the state's opioid epidemic to yoga classes at the beginning of next week.  Nearly 200 new laws will take effect Sunday.  Some of ...

The trial of a former Bloomington High School teacher, accused in the stabbing death of her husband, is being pushed back. It's being delayed so Sarah Mellor's defense can have more time to prepare. T...

Investigators in Bloomington-Normal and Peoria say they know how a local man died, but they still don't know how he got hurt.  An autopsy yesterday showed Maunds Bryant died of a head injury. &nb...