The McLean County Sheriff's department is fessing up to an error that allowed federal immigration agencies to search its database of Flock Safety license plate reading cameras for more than four months this year.

Police departments in McLean County that use automatic license plate reading cameras [ALPRs] say none of their data has been shared with federal immigration officers. This comes after Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said camera company Flock shared data with those federal agencies.

Police said a motorcyclist crashed near the intersection of Veterans Parkway and Clearwater Avenue on Tuesday night. Police said the driver, an adult male, was found unresponsive in the roadway. Another motorcyclist suffered potentially life-threatening injuries in a crash at Veterans at Eastland Drive on Sunday night.

The new law brings reform to the state's public defense system for the first time in decades. Public defenders play an outsized role in juvenile and child welfare courts.

For several members of the city's Public Safety and Community Relations Board, it was their first time reviewing a complaint, leading to discussion about the board's function and role.

Bloomington's city manager said the decision was primarily related to a flyer suggesting police could advise what to do in an ICE raid.

A pickup truck struck two bicyclists Monday morning near Evans Junior High in Bloomington, sending both to the hospital. It was at least the second serious incident involving a bicyclist and vehicle in McLean County in the past few days.

Emerson Evans, 31, appeared before Judge Amy McFarland Monday afternoon for a pretrial detention hearing on two counts of intentional homicide of an unborn child. Prosecutors argued Evans should be held in McLean County Jail awaiting trial; McFarland agreed.

A 57-year-old Boston man has died after being struck by a car while riding a bike near Danvers over the weekend.

A Central Illinois attorney has been sanctioned after filing a brief written partially by artificial intelligence that cited several “hallucinated,” or non-existent, cases. It’s believed to be one of the first known cases of an Illinois lawyer being punished for misusing A.I. in a real case.

A 31-year-old man from Normal was charged Saturday with causing the intentional homicide of an unborn child, after allegedly sneaking the abortion pill mifepristone to his girlfriend in Bloomington without her consent.

A former president of the State Farm Holiday Classic is accused of stealing over $100,000 from the nonprofit organization that runs the annual high school basketball tournament in Bloomington-Normal.