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McLean County courts hope to use data on juvenile offenders to reduce adult crime and punishment in central Illinois. The effort has two prongs — improving interventions for troubled children, and a potential specialty court for offenders aged 18 to 25.
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Federal prosecutors said Friday a 29-year-old man from Normal has received a 10-year prison sentence for sex trafficking a minor.
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A federal judge has sentenced a former Ford County resident to 14 years in prison for a variety of crimes related to a militia group.
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Attorneys with the Illinois State Bar Association have issued a "not recommended" rating for one of the candidates for 11th Judicial Circuit judge in McLean County.
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A 20-year-old Peoria man has admitted stealing 25 guns from a Bloomington store. The guilty pleas were for burglary to a federally licensed firearms dealer and possession of stolen firearms.
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Authorities say a woman critically injured in a suspected domestic violence incident in Bloomington has died.
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The state agency that runs Illinois prisons said it wants to cut the inmate capacity at the Pontiac Correctional Center by more than half. That comes as the aging facility in Livingston County has infrastructure needs and as the overall state prisoner population is falling.
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The mother of a missing baby told relatives the child died after falling asleep between her legs. That’s according to McLean County prosecutor Brad Rigdon, who spoke during a bond hearing Friday for Kimberlee Burton.
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Bloomington Police recently found a new and unwelcome technology wrinkle in firearms. Officers said a man wounded by gunfire also had a device intended to convert a semi-automatic weapon to an automatic, essentially a machine gun.
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Former piano teacher Aaron Parlier has been sentenced to 450 years in prison for sex assault and child porn. The lengthy term comes from convictions in the first of six cases prosecutors have said they plan to try separately against the 40-year-old Bloomington man.