Police and Courts

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.

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.

A 19-year-old was charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend 17 times inside their east Bloomington apartment.

Brittany Mitchell, 46, of Normal was found dead in a parked vehicle Tuesday afternoon.

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.

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.

Bill Lally explains the reality of confronting assault-style rifles like the one used in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

Bloomington police are seeking attempted murder and arson charges against a man who, they say, set fire to an apartment last month.

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.

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.