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There were at least 69 gunfire incidents in Bloomington-Normal in 2022, including five people who were killed and another 12 who were injured, according to police tallies and WGLT reporting.
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Congress this year passed a new law that means employers can no longer force their employees into arbitration to resolve claims of on-the-job sexual harassment or assault. The electric automaker Rivian wants to do it anyway.
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A 19-year-old was charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend 17 times inside their east Bloomington apartment.
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Brittany Mitchell, 46, of Normal was found dead in a parked vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
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McLean County circuit court and all the other courts in the state are scrambling to meet an end-of-year deadline to implement the controversial Safe-T Act criminal justice reform bill. The end of cash bail is one of the well-known provisions of the law, but there are a lot more pieces of it that will have big effects.
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A federal judge has sentenced a central Illinois man to 10 years in prison for robbing banks and stores across a five-county region in central Illinois.
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Bill Lally explains the reality of confronting assault-style rifles like the one used in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
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Bloomington police are seeking attempted murder and arson charges against a man who, they say, set fire to an apartment last month.
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Normal Police early Wednesday morning responded to a call of shots fired at the intersection of Main and Willow streets, near the Illinois State University campus.
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Amid a campaign season in which every constitutional office and seat in the Illinois General Assembly will be up for vote, rising crime and a landmark criminal justice reform passed in 2021 have become dominant topics for Republicans trying to loosen Democrats’ hold on state government.