By Jake Fogal NORMAL – It has been 8 years since U-High last took the field for a playoff game, but the third season under Head Coach Brody Walworth has propelled the Pioneers back to the promised land after a Week 8 victory over fellow Central State Eight Conference foe Lincoln 49-28. Coach Walworth spoke…… MORE
A 16-year-old Bloomington boy accused in a deadly stabbing pleaded not guilty Friday to murder charges.… MORE
Bloomington police are probing a shots fired incident that happened Thursday night on the city’s south side.… MORE
Illinois farmers’ payday will be good but not great, according to the latest USDA forecast.… MORE
By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – A North Carolina man has died after a semi tractor-trailer truck careened off a bridge and crashed on a road below on Wednesday. McLean County Coroner, Kathy Yoder, said 52 year old Willie Broner, Jr. of Dallas, North Carolina., died of multiple blunt force injuries when his truck left the roadway…… MORE
Growmark has a new corporate headquarters.… MORE
Prayer services across Central Illinois are being held in solidarity with Israel. Dozens of students gathered met on the quad to join Chabad at ISU.… MORE
The Normal Police Department announced on Wednesday it will be using new technology to keep citizens safe.… MORE
There were 5.8 days suitable for field work during the week ending October 8, 2023. … MORE
The Children’s Discovery Museum in Uptown Normal showed off its new Luckey Climber exhibit with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday. … MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…