The new, voluntary Blue Envelope Program is now part of the Normal Police Department's operations. It's used to improve interactions — usually traffic stops — with people who have autism, cognitive delays, communication differences or other neurodivergent conditions.

Paul Williams is named with the City of Bloomington as defendants in a federal lawsuit accusing the assistant police chief of misconduct during a June traffic stop.

A McLean County jury convicted Tomiyale Anderson, 22, on all counts related to the shooting death of 17-year-old Kanye Stowers, a student at Richwoods High School in Peoria.

The five people injured when a pickup truck veered onto the sidewalk in Uptown Normal and struck a building remained hospitalized Saturday, including one in critical condition.

Brady Stoewer, 24, of Normal was eligible for probation after pleading guilty to one count of criminal sexual abuse of a minor. A judge issued the 4.5-year sentence during an all-day hearing Friday in McLean County Court.

Five people, including pedestrians, were injured and the Children's Discovery Museum was damaged after a two-vehicle crash near Uptown Circle on Friday afternoon.

An employee at the McLean County jail is charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. He's now being held at a different jail in Champaign County.

A new bill Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law better accommodates survivors of sexual assault during the reporting process, but police are struggling to find the numbers to make it happen.

Friday marks six months since the death of Mariah Kletz, a 16-year-old who died in a mobile home in southwest Bloomington. Her family say they're anxious to see an arrest in the case.

Bloomington Police officers plan to respond to community complaints of excessive vehicle noise and unsafe driving by increasing traffic enforcement on Veterans Parkway.

A man died when a sport utility vehicle hit the bicycle he was riding Sunday on the west side of Bloomington.

New data spanning more than two decades of court records in McLean County shows two-thirds of people convicted on criminal charges do not reoffend.