McLean County Court Services

A new program through the McLean County court system is designed to help families affected by addiction, and involved in child welfare court.

Ryan Aeron Stanley Hurst, 18, of Arkansas, is accused of firing at Illinois State Police troopers who had pulled him over at a gas station in Lexington on the morning of Feb. 6.

In the case of Jadeyn and Cassandra Lacey, Judge Amy McFarland gave a directed verdict of acquittal. According to the Laceys' attorney, those are "very rarely granted."

McLean County’s new Family Treatment Court accepted its first client and received a $750,000 grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to fund operations.

Scammers have targeted recent McLean County jurors, attempting to intimidate or scam them out of personal and credit card information over the phone.

McLean County and the rest of the 11th Judicial Circuit have been awarded nearly $32,000 in grant funds.

McLean County’s pretrial services coordinator has been tapped to serve as the manager of pretrial services for the Administrative Office of the Illinois…