Eric Stock
News DirectorEric Stock is WGLT's News Director.
Eric worked at WJBC (Radio Bloomington) from 2004-2018 as a reporter, anchor, assignment editor, and sports director. Stock follows in the footsteps of Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker and retired News Director Willis Kern in moving from Radio Bloomington’s WJBC to WGLT.
Eric's community involvement includes the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and serving as a McLean County 4-H Judge. He is also a Bloomington-Normal Area Sports Commission member and broadcasts play-by-play sports at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Contact Eric at ejstoc1@ilstu.edu.
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Bloomington Police say they were attempting to make a routine traffic stop when the suspect reportedly fled the scene on foot and retrieved what appeared to be a gun. Police later recovered the weapon in the area where the suspect fled. -
The court’s conservative majority determined that judges can't issue a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive orders. The high court largely set aside whether the president actually can ban automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. -
The McLean County coroner has identified the pedestrian who was struck and killed by a passenger train in Normal on Tuesday. -
According to the U.S. Attorney’s office Central Illinois district, Carrie Musselman, 48, stole more than $2.5 million from Medicare and a dozen insurance companies. -
State Rep. Bill Hauter, a Republican from Morton, has announced plans to run for a third term in the heavily Republican district that covers a heavily rural area that includes Bloomington-Normal, Peoria, Decatur and Springfield. -
The 30th annual event, held at the Brown Ballroom at Illinois State University, is the largest annual fundraiser for the Central Illinois chapter of the Red Cross. -
WGLT and more than two dozen other NPR stations joined a newly filed amicus brief in the lawsuit that aims to block the Trump administration’s executive order to defund public media. -
Human trafficking cases are on the rise in Central Illinois, according to a survivor's advocate. Carol Merna from the Center for Prevention of Abuse says the increase in reported victims is likely due to greater awareness about human trafficking, either through commercial sex or forced labor. -
Bloomington is dropping the proposed licensing fees that massage establishments would have to pay to operate in the city. City staff had proposed a $250 annual fee to cover the cost of investigating the businesses to address concerns about sex trafficking. -
While two of the tornadoes were southeast of Bloomington-Normal, the bulk of the twisters were in west-central Illinois. The strongest was an EF-2 reported northeast of Jacksonville in Morgan County.
