Drugs

Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen said a bipartisan bill he's co-sponsoring to reduce fentanyl smuggling at the southern border would also help suppress gun smuggling.

A man who shipped large amounts of methamphetamine from Mexico to his Logan County farm will spend 21 years in federal prison.

McLean County is getting more legal marijuana tax money than just the amounts going to Bloomington and Normal. The YWCA of McLean County will receive more than $282,000 for its Labyrinth Outreach Services that helps women coming out of prison reintegrate into the community.

A federal judge has sentenced a 43-year old Peoria man to 12 years in prison for dealing methamphetamine in several central Illinois communities including Bloomington.

A federal judge has sentenced a 39-year-old woman to 14 years in prison for dealing methamphetamine in central Illinois.

A decade of data from the McLean County Juvenile Detention Center and the county jail is starting to offer insight into patterns of adult crime.

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 bill to lessen penalties for possessing and selling small amounts of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, narrowly passed out of the state House of…

Law enforcement officials and prosecutors said they feel blindsided by a massive criminal justice reform bill introduced by the Black Democratic Caucus in…

Illinois State Police seized more than five pounds of methamphetamine following a traffic stop Tuesday in Livingston County.Police arrested two men along…