McLean County Sheriff

An employee at the McLean County jail is charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. He's now being held at a different jail in Champaign County.

A man died when a sport utility vehicle hit the bicycle he was riding Sunday on the west side of Bloomington.

Jon Albee is running unopposed to replace Sheriff Matt Lane, who is retiring. The Sheriff's Office runs the county jail, which draws heavily from a shared sales tax agreement.

The approval stops short of six-month moratoriums approved by Bloomington and Normal, but gives McLean County more stringent rules than most neighboring counties, officials said.

In his monthly report to the county's Justice Committee, Sheriff Matt Lane said his department has kept up with transfers to prison and mental health facilities. But the state still has a dire shortage of mental health beds for people in the criminal justice system.

The amendment to the agreement — that also must be passed by Bloomington and Normal — will forgo the money that would come during April, May and June, said McLean County Board Chair Elizabeth Johnston.

Linda C. Haddad died by suicide Feb. 2, 1982, and authorities were not able to identify her using forensics of the time. The McLean County Sheriff's Office partnered with a nonprofit who uses DNA and genealogy to help identify victims.

After an initial decline in beds filled at the McLean County jail, numbers have creeped back up since cashless bail began in Illinois. Experts say pretrial release violations are to blame.

A 72-year-old woman has died in a house fire in Saybrook.

The McLean County Sheriff's department is fessing up to an error that allowed federal immigration agencies to search its database of Flock Safety license plate reading cameras for more than four months this year.