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Tip411 is a system for citizens to send information to police anonymously through a text message. Police hope more people with information on crimes will come forward without having to speak to an officer.
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Normal is calling for a flat property tax levy, just shy of $13.4 million — but with a twist: Leaders say the town also proposes slightly decreasing the 2022 property tax rate by about 10 cents.
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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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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.
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One doesn’t think of Bloomington and central Illinois as a lurid hotbed of crime. But it certainly seems it could have been that way during the mid-to-late 1800s as portrayed by the three city newspapers of the day.
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Catalytic converter thefts have increased dramatically in Bloomington, according to the Bloomington Police Department.
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Dianne and Tom Clemens of Normal say they don’t want pity from this story. They made a determined decision to share how they lost their life savings of $600,000 in a swindle to prevent others from falling prey as they did.
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Bloomington has joined a growing list of cities adding license-plate reading cameras to their policing efforts, despite opposition from groups saying they raise privacy issues.
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Another mother's son died in gunfire a week ago in Bloomington-Normal, and a gun safety group is repeating its call for sensible safety measures to prevent gun violence.
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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.