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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Joshua Livingston of Danvers faces murder charges in Melissa Ostrom's death in April.
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Michael Luedtke complained of a knee injury following an altercation with a man during an Aug. 24, 2018, response to a call involving a woman with self-inflicted injuries on Rainbow Circle.
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Judge William Yoder cautioned Livingston, saying self representation “is not a simple matter of telling one’s story.” Livingston will be expected to handle the case in a competent manner and will not have a lawyer on standby, said Yoder.
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Joshua Livingston is accused of killing Melissa Ostrom on April 17, about a month after he was arrested on domestic battery charges that named Ostrom as the victim.
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William G. Morris, 21, is accused in the felony charges of driving recklessly at a high rate of speed when his vehicle struck one driven by Charlene C. Jones, of Bloomington, last December.
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The releases of Michael Bakana and Joshua Livingston illustrate the challenges of releasing a person accused of domestic violence, and the uncertainties of opening the cell door of an accused murderer with the ability to post his bond.
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A judge has set a Nov. 21 hearing to allow lawyers for Barton McNeil to present new potential evidence to challenge his 1998 murder conviction.
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McLean County has seen what coroner Kathy Yoder calls a "startling" trend in suicides.
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Sentencing was delayed Thursday for Michael Bakana, who was convicted of killing one woman and severely injuring another in a January 2021 shooting in downtown Bloomington.
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Bibi Cornejo’s understanding of the trauma and harm of gunfire changed on Jan. 30, 2021 when Michael Bakana fired 10 rounds toward her and a friend, 22-year-old Mariah Petracca, following a dispute among the three outside Daddios bar on North Main Street in downtown Bloomington.