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A Danvers man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he strangled a Bloomington woman to death and then tried to hide her body.
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A fugitive from murder charges, on the run for 7 1/2 years, has been captured in Bloomington, according to the U.S. Marshal’s Service.
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Police in Normal said a 22-year-old Warren, Michigan man died Friday evening in a multi-vehicle crash on the northwest side of Normal. Officers were called to the I-55/74 overpass on Raab Road ¼ mile West of Parkside Road just before 7 pm.
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There were at least 69 gunfire incidents in Bloomington-Normal in 2022, including five people who were killed and another 12 who were injured, according to police tallies and WGLT reporting.
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Congress this year passed a new law that means employers can no longer force their employees into arbitration to resolve claims of on-the-job sexual harassment or assault. The electric automaker Rivian wants to do it anyway.
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A 19-year-old was charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend 17 times inside their east Bloomington apartment.
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Brittany Mitchell, 46, of Normal was found dead in a parked vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
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McLean County circuit court and all the other courts in the state are scrambling to meet an end-of-year deadline to implement the controversial Safe-T Act criminal justice reform bill. The end of cash bail is one of the well-known provisions of the law, but there are a lot more pieces of it that will have big effects.
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A federal judge has sentenced a central Illinois man to 10 years in prison for robbing banks and stores across a five-county region in central Illinois.
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Bill Lally explains the reality of confronting assault-style rifles like the one used in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.