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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The murder case against Amari McNabb centers on a beef between gang members over the death of a Bloomington man six months earlier, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements at McNabb’s murder trial. -
Jury selection began Monday at the Law and Justice Center in the murder trial of Amari McNabb.
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Amari McNabb turned down a final plea offer to murder charges on Thursday and told a judge he is ready for his trial to begin Monday on charges that could send him to prison for life in the 2019 shooting death of Juan Nash.
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A Normal man who worked as a piano teacher remains jailed on more than 100 counts of child pornography and criminal sexual assault of a minor.
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A man accused of raping an elderly woman and possessing child pornography five years ago told a judge on Friday he has not been successful in hiring a new lawyer to represent him in the county’s longest pending criminal cases.
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Lawyers for Jamie Snow and the state have reached an agreement on a portion of the police records the defense is entitled to view in their efforts to exonerate Snow of the 1991 murder of a Bloomington gas station attendant.
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A Bloomington man convicted of a hate crime for riding his motorcycle into a crowd of protesters last year was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison.
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Lawyers for Jamie Snow and the state agreed Monday that both sides need more time to discuss issues related to more than 8,000 pages of documents linked to his 2001 conviction on murder charges in the death of William Little.
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The defense lawyer for Amari McNabb must provide prosecutors with opinions from two expert witnesses by July 1, a judge ruled on Tuesday, after prosecutors complained that they have not been told specifics about the experts’ opinions ahead of McNabb’s July 26 trial on murder charges.
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John Hanlon will retire June 30 as executive director of the Illinois Innocence Project at University of Illinois Springfield. Over the past 12 years, Hanlon and a team of lawyers, students and volunteers has helped exonerate 18 defendants.
