Police and Courts

The murder case against Amari McNabb centers on a beef between gang members over the death of a Bloomington man six months earlier, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements at McNabb’s murder trial.

A decade of data from the McLean County Juvenile Detention Center and the county jail is starting to offer insight into patterns of adult crime.

Jury selection began Monday at the Law and Justice Center in the murder trial of Amari McNabb.

The largest auto insurer in Illinois is sounding a warning about thefts of catalytic converters from autos. Bloomington-based State Farm Insurance says nationally, thefts of that car part have tripled in the last year.

Amari McNabb turned down a final plea offer to murder charges on Thursday and told a judge he is ready for his trial to begin Monday on charges that could send him to prison for life in the 2019 shooting death of Juan Nash.

A Normal man who worked as a piano teacher remains jailed on more than 100 counts of child pornography and criminal sexual assault of a minor.

A man accused of raping an elderly woman and possessing child pornography five years ago told a judge on Friday he has not been successful in hiring a new lawyer to represent him in the county’s longest pending criminal cases.

Lawyers for Jamie Snow and the state have reached an agreement on a portion of the police records the defense is entitled to view in their efforts to exonerate Snow of the 1991 murder of a Bloomington gas station attendant.

Authorities have identified the 40-year-old Bloomington man killed in a crash Monday night near Ellsworth.

A Bloomington man convicted of a hate crime for riding his motorcycle into a crowd of protesters last year was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison.