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Another mother's son died in gunfire a week ago in Bloomington-Normal, and a gun safety group is repeating its call for sensible safety measures to prevent gun violence.

Bloomington Police say a 29-year-old man was shot and killed in a west-side apartment Monday night. Police say they are looking for suspects, and no arrests have been made.

Longtime Illinois State University faculty member and community leader Charles Morris has died at the age 92.

Bloomington Police said they took a 17-year-old male into custody without incident and seized two firearms during the operation.

A 19-year-old Chicago man was arrested Monday in connection with the Sept. 29 fatal shooting of a man following a pop-up party in Normal.

In the last month, the Woodford County Health Department hired and trained up to six new contact tracers. Three of them already have quit.

A new law allowed gun owners to keep assault weapons if they disclosed them. Illinois county registration rates ranged from 0.5% to 1.8%.

Project Oz has existed in Bloomington for just over half a century, and it’s the only social service organization in the county dedicated to helping youth and adolescents — ages 10 to 23 — facing a housing crisis.

Chris Balkema won a special election last year in the 53rd Senate District, a large, mostly rural district north of Bloomington-Normal. It stretches from the Peoria area to the Indiana border.

A Unit 5 school board meeting with a light agenda ended up lasting more than two hours Wednesday night, after social media attention to an illustrated LGBTQ memoir led to passionate public commenters sharing views on the matter.