Federal Prison

A federal judge has sentenced four people for their parts in a gun store burglary ring that tried to grab weapons from five counties in Central Illinois, including McLean.

A federal judge in Urbana has sentenced a woman from Normal to 8 1/2 years in prison for her part in the shooting death of a Champaign police officer and the wounding of another.

Isaac Jackson, a former pharmacy technician, was accused of "diverting" 28,000 hydrocodone pills from the medical supply chain to be sold illegally.

A federal judge in Peoria has sentenced a 22-year-old Bloomington man to just under three years in prison for having a "switch" that made a Glock pistol into a fully automatic weapon.

There have been multiple lockdowns in a Pekin federal prison to reduce the spread of the coronavirus in the facility, with many inmates losing contact…

The head of the McLean County Republican party said she was disappointed to see President Donald Trump commute former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 14-year…

UPDATED 11:20 a.m. | Former McLean County Board chairman Matt Sorensen is expected to be released from federal custody this month after serving his…