Two 17-year-old boys are in custody for their alleged roles in a shooting that left another teen hospitalized. One of the boys has been charged as an adult.

The Normal Police Department has made technology one of its top priorities in 2026. That includes a new video drone that officers can bring to crime and crash scenes.

Nicole Nesland is accused of embezzling over $500,000 from a Lexington business. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison for each charge.

Joseph Brooks, 22, will serve 55 years in prison for the first-degree murder of officer Aréanah Preston. He was one of four people charged in her death.

A new half-hour true-crime special set to debut on April 7 takes a look at new evidence unveiled in the unsolved murder of ISU student Jennifer Lockmiller in 1993. She was the ex-girlfriend of the wrongfully convicted Alan Beaman.

Marcus Folks, 43, appeared for a sentencing hearing which stretched more than three hours Friday. Prosecutors called Folks' complaints a "self-inflicted wound" caused by his choices to fire a public defender three times and not show up for trial.

Chief Jamal Simington gave a presentation on immigration policies and procedures in the Bloomington Police Department during a quarterly meeting of the city's police accountability board.

Judge Casey Costigan has served on the bench in McLean County since 2006, ascending to chief judge overseeing five Central Illinois counties since 2022. His seat is up for election in November, with a new chief judge to be announced later this year.

Bradley W. Beyer was granted pretrial supervision last week after being arrested on 34 counts of possessing and viewing child pornography. A McLean County judge reversed that ruling, sending Beyer to jail to await trial.

The six victims were all hospitalized with undisclosed injuries. The shooting happened in an apartment parking lot in the 700 block of Franklin Avenue around 2:40 a.m. Sunday.

Ten of the 11 people who spoke during the public comments portion of Monday’s Bloomington City Council meeting voiced opposition to a perceived possibility of a data center development south of Central Illinois Regional Airport.

The region's only real-time data center collects and interprets information from license plate and public safety cameras. Bloomington Police plan to invest in crash detection tools and additional software and hardware upgrades.