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Michael J. Madigan will likely never step foot in the federal courtroom where four former political power players are about to face trial, accused of trying to bribe the longtime Illinois House speaker to benefit ComEd.
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The future of cash bail in Illinois is in the hands of the state’s Supreme Court.
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Judges in the 11th Judicial Circuit in central Illinois have chosen Livingston County State's Attorney Randy Yedinak to fill a vacant associate judge's position.
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A federal judge in Peoria has sentenced a 22-year-old Bloomington man to just under three years in prison for having a "switch" that made a Glock pistol into a fully automatic weapon.
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McLean County Sheriff Jon Sandage said Tuesday he's reviewing workers' compensation claims of current and former workers in his department, after the state's attorney's office filed a fraud charge against a jail guard.
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Meontay Wheeler, 23, of Bloomington, pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated battery by torturing a woman during an incident on Jan. 21 in Bloomington. Charges state Wheeler caused “extensive bruising, lacerations and burns” to the victim.
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A noted central Illinois jurist has taken aim at the criminal justice system, some rulings by the current Supreme Court, and the negative effect on the nation from the oft-recurring use of fear to shape political ends in the U.S.
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Police in Normal said a 29-year-old man was shot in the parking lot of the Candlewood Suites motel on Susan Drive overnight Sunday morning.
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A federal judge in Peoria has sentenced a man from Danvers to 6 1/2 years in prison for sending lewd photos of parts of himself to a minor. Alexander Smith, 23, also must register as a sex offender when he is released.
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Nearly a year ago on a sunny late summer afternoon, a cascade of sharp cracks sounded in the Landings Mobile Home Park in Normal. Ronald Reiner, 66, a resident of the Landings, had taken his handgun and started shooting. Police responded with everyone on the shift, including school resource officers. When it was over, three people were dead.