Edith Brady-Lunny
CorrespondentEdith Brady-Lunny was a correspondent at WGLT, joining the station in 2019. She left the station in 2024.
Edith began her career as a reporter with The DeWitt County Observer, a weekly newspaper in Clinton. From 2007 to June 2019, Edith covered crime and legal issues for The Pantagraph, a daily newspaper in Bloomington, Illinois. She previously worked as a correspondent for The Pantagraph covering courts and local government issues in central Illinois.
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Jeffrey Reinking was convicted in 2022 of illegally giving his son Travis Reinking an assault-style weapon he used in a 2018 shooting that left four dead at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A Tazwell County judge sentenced Reinking to 18 months in prison for delivery of a firearm to a person who had been treated for mental illness within five years. -
Mental health services in Illinois prisons are among the worst in the country, creating “abysmal and harmful” conditions for staff and inmates, with Pontiac Correctional Center fostering a “disgusting and neglected environment,” according to a consultant’s report on mental health care in Illinois facilities. -
A Minnesota man, Kentrell Brown, was sentenced to 80 years in prison Tuesday for the 2021 murder of Natwan Nash. -
Alan Beaman will continue his efforts to educate police recruits about the harm done to innocent people ensnared by wrongful convictions, as he moves on with his life after reaching a $5.4 million settlement with the Town of Normal and three former officers. -
The teen is charged with attempted murder and weapons charges in connection with an incident Feb. 8 on West Market Street and Howard Street. He has been charged as an adult. -
An agreement calling for a $5.4 settlement has been reached between Alan Beaman and the Town of Normal and three retired police officers over Beaman’s wrongful conviction on murder charges that sent him to prison for more than 12 years, before his release and dismissal of the charges. -
Lawyers for Alan Beaman will be allowed to share evidence with jurors at his upcoming civil trial against three retired Normal police officers that the officers violated accepted police standards in their 1993 homicide investigation that led to Beaman’s conviction on murder charges, a Peoria County judge ruled on Friday.
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The elimination of cash bail as a means to detain people before trial has brought change to McLean County, including heavier workloads and lower jail populations, as officials navigate the implications of a massive rewrite of the state’s pretrial process. -
A Bloomington man was found guilty on Friday of murder in the February 2023 shooting death of Kiejoun Watts. -
Advanced forensic testing could yield new information in the 1991 death of William Little, a defense expert argued Thursday in the evidentiary hearing for Jamie Snow, who is challenging his conviction on murder charges in connection with the armed robbery that killed Little.
