Police and Courts

A Livingston County jury convicted Clifford Brewer of murder late Tuesday afternoon in the 2019 deaths of his wife, son and neighbor in the couple’s home in Cullom.

Nearly a year ago on a sunny late summer afternoon, a cascade of sharp cracks sounded in the Landings Mobile Home Park in Normal. Ronald Reiner, 66, a resident of the Landings, had taken his handgun and started shooting. Police responded with everyone on the shift, including school resource officers. When it was over, three people were dead.

The product of a national coalition of police leadership, researchers and professional organizations, the 30x30 Initiative is aimed at encouraging police departments across the country to have 30% percent of their recruits be women by 2030.

Brittany Mitchell, 46, of Normal was found dead in a parked vehicle Tuesday afternoon.

McLean County Sheriff Jon Sandage says he's pleased by a court ruling that orders the state to take inmates deemed unfit for trial. Sandage and several other Illinois sheriffs sued the Illinois Department of Human Services over pandemic-related order from the Pritzker administration.

A man who set fire to an apartment building in Bloomington in May has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Anthony Hughlett, 45, of Gibson City, pleaded guilty Tuesday to an attempted murder charge in McLean County court.

The Kappa Kabanna Men's Club faces a lawsuit from an exotic dancer who claims the company misclassified her as an independent contractor.

The life term handed down by Judge Casey Costigan is in addition to 450 years Parlier received in January, also from Costigan, in the sexual assault of another student.

Federal prosecutors said Friday a 29-year-old man from Normal has received a 10-year prison sentence for sex trafficking a minor.

With more than 62,000 attorneys registered to practice in Illinois, it might seem like there's plenty of legal representation to go around. But that statistic masks a severe shortage of solo practitioners.

A Bloomington woman was killed and her mother was hospitalized following a crash in Nebraska when they were hit while walking on a dirt road.

McLean County Sheriff Jon Sandage is among six Illinois sheriffs who have sued Gov. JB Pritzker and the state Department of Human Services over the delayed transfer of inmates ruled unfit to stand trial.