Edith Brady-Lunny
CorrespondentEdith 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.
Edith joined WGLT as a correspondent in 2019.
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In a lengthy decision delivered Friday, a judge found a former Bloomington piano teacher guilty of predatory criminal sexual assault and producing child pornography of a young student captured on video engaging in sexual acts with the teacher. -
Former arena manager John Butler has asked a judge to seal court records related to his 2020 misdemeanor conviction for theft in connection with what started as one of the largest embezzlement cases filed in McLean County and ended with a plea deal that required Butler to pay the city $450,000 restitution.
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A judge will issue a verdict Friday in the bench trial of a former Bloomington piano teacher charged with filming his alleged sexual assaults of a student depicted in graphic video shown during the two-day trial.
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A piano teacher’s lewd instructions to a young female student to perform sexual acts on him were quoted by State’s Attorney Don Knapp on Monday during opening statements at the first of what is expected to be six trials on child pornography and predatory sexual assault charges for Aaron Parlier.
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Sydney Mays Jr. was sentenced to three life terms in prison Friday for murder in the 2018 Bloomington shooting that killed three people and left a 4-year-old boy paralyzed.
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A doctor accused of sexually assaulting a patient in December 2019 now claims the sexual activity was consensual, according to statements Thursday by his defense lawyer at a court hearing.
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The sister of convicted murderer Cynthia Baker was convicted herself Tuesday of harassing a witness during Baker’s 2019 trial in the death of 8-year-old Rica Rountree.
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Lawyers for Jamie Snow must be given access to thousands of pages of police reports related to Snow’s conviction on murder charges in the 1991 murder of a Bloomington has station worker, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Delays in court proceedings for the county’s longest pending criminal cases are coming to an end, a judge said on Friday, after he gave a man charged with rape and child pornography until Nov. 5 to hire a lawyer.
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Teams of prosecutors were removed from their regular caseloads over the past 14 months to work on an unprecedented number of murder trials, most of the effort taking place during a global pandemic that shut down much of the court system.
