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Desmond Sterling, 23, was formally charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Kiejoun Watts, 20, of Bloomington.
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Joshua D. Livingston, 41, of Danvers, was in McLean County court Thursday on first-degree murder charges in Melissa Ostrom’s death.
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Barton McNeil was convicted of in the 1998 death of his 3-year-old daughter, Christina. McNeil has denied any involvement in the child’s death. He has urged Bloomington police to investigate his former girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, a woman with a history of violence and child abuse, as a possible suspect.
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Bloomington Police say they captured the juvenile male after a foot chase outside the Target store on Monday.
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Bart McNeil's attorneys will get a hearing on the claim that McNeil's former girlfriend confessed to the 1998 killing of McNeil's daughter; the claim was not heard during his bench trial. A judge rejected multiple other defense arguments for new hearings.
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Judge Jennifer Bauknecht sentenced Clifford Brewer, 55, to three life terms plus 20 years for use of a firearm during the crime. Under Illinois law, life in prison is mandatory in cases involving the death of multiple people.
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The "Does Innocence Matter?" rally focused on decades-long court battles that Jamie Snow and Bart McNeil have fought to have their murder convictions overturned.
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A Livingston County jury convicted Clifford Brewer of murder late Tuesday afternoon in the 2019 deaths of his wife, son and neighbor in the couple’s home in Cullom.
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Authorities have served murder warrants on two people in connection with an October killing on Bloomington's west side, and are still seeking a third.A…
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Byron Merriweather was 17 when he shot a man at Miller Park during a 2003 fight between rival Twin City gangs, a crime that netted the teen 70 years in…