Police and Courts

A former Ridgeview High School teacher was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting a former student.

In a response filed Monday, the state notes that just 13 prisoners – down from 20 when the injunction request was made April 26—have COVID-19 and 76 cases are reported among staff.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling considered a disappointing setback for efforts to spare young offenders from a life in prison without parole is expected to have little impact in Illinois, where changes in the law shield most youth from a lifetime behind bars.

A rural McLean County police officer pleaded "no contest" on Monday to official misconduct and computer tampering in a plea deal that allowed him to…

UPDATED 4:50 p.m. | A Bloomington man has pleaded guilty to a hate crime after riding his motorcycle into a group of protesters during a 2020 protest…

A bill to lessen penalties for possessing and selling small amounts of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, narrowly passed out of the state House of…

UPDATED 2:20 p.m. | A 44-year-old Normal man has been arrested in connection with a fatal stabbing on Bloomington's west side, police said.A SWAT team…

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…

A judge on Monday cut in half Byron Merriweather's 70-year sentence in the 2003 shooting death of a man at Miller Park, after a review of how…