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A McLean County jury delivered a $9.1 million verdict for a Bloomington family, following the 2019 death of a woman whose pancreatic cancer went undetected for more than two years.

A new report from the Chicago Civic Federation shows most county circuit court clerks in Illinois will lose about 11% of their general fund fee revenue when cash bail is eliminated in 2023. Bond payments can go to a variety of things, including court-ordered fees, fines, restitution, and bond processing fees. It's that last category that helps fund circuit clerk operations.

Not everybody has a lawyer when they go to court, but a new grant from the State Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice will help increase collaboration and resources for people who represent themselves in McLean County and around the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

Not everybody has a lawyer when they go to court, but a new grant from the State Supreme Court Commission on Access to Justice will help increase collaboration and resources for people who represent themselves in McLean County and around the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

A federal judge in Peoria has sentenced a Bloomington man to 20 years in prison for selling heroin to a man who who died of a drug overdose. Jacob Schultz, 36, also will serve five years of supervised release after he gets out of prison.

A noted and sometimes controversial jurist from central Illinois has died.Former Illinois Chief Supreme Court Justice James Heiple was 87, according to a…

McLean County Public Defender Carla Barnes has been appointed as the first Black woman to serve as a circuit judge in Illinois’ 11th Judicial…

The question whether an eighth-grade student at Illinois State University’s Thomas Metcalf lab school sexually harassed a female classmate by asking her…

One day after a 9-year-old was arraigned on murder charges, a juvenile justice advocate on Tuesday questioned the Woodford County prosecutor’s decision to…