Lauren Warnecke

Andrew Miller has volunteered with Lexington's cheer squad since 2024. He was placed on administrative leave in the wake of a police investigation that's taken him off the job at Chiddix Junior High. On Friday afternoon, Lexington High's cheerleading families were notified of Miller's termination.

Minutes from a Unit 5 school board meeting in 2020 reveal the district's public rebuke of Andrew Miller's alleged behavior while he was a coach at University High School.

The Music Shoppe, un centro de venta y servicio de instrumentos de propiedad familiar con sede en Normal, celebra su 65.º aniversario, un logro poco común entre las empresas familiares.

A McLean County jury determined Desiree Robertson did not premeditate her husband's death in a 2024 domestic dispute. She was found guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday.

Mummy Cass and his band mates make up the all-original anonymous funk band called Here Come the Mummies. 5,000 years ago, they were in sarcophagi, but now they're playing at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.

The Music Shoppe, a family-owned instrument sales and service center with three locations in Central Illinois, is celebrating a big milestone. Past and present owners discuss their unlikely success in a niche industry.

OSHA said Alliance Grain Co. violated safety standards by not properly guarding a sump hole, contributing to a seasonal laborer becoming injured. Alliance has not yet responded to the penalties, which total $276,407. The company said it's reviewing the citations.

Eighth grade social studies teacher Brandon Knapp has been placed on paid administrative leave.

A long-term substitute teacher has been assigned to a seventh grade classroom in Normal following a soft lockdown as police executed a search last week.

Consumir cantidades sustanciales de queso con alto contenido de grasa y crema podría reducir el riesgo de desarrollar demencia, según un estudio de larga duración realizado en Sweden. El Journal of the American Medical Association publicó un artículo que señala que los consumidores de café podrían reducir su riesgo de demencia en un 18%.