By Jake Fogal BLOOMINGTON – Average gasoline prices in Illinois have risen over 10 cents in the last week, averaging $4.14 a gallon According to GasBuddy’s survey of over 43-hundred stations in Illinois, prices in the state are 31 cents higher than a month ago. GasBuddy price reports show the cheapest station in Illinois is…… MORE
By WMBD-TV NORMAL – Police here continue to investigate a shooting that occurred over the weekend that left a boy with non life-threatening injuries. Officers with the Normal Police Department were at a hospital on Aug. 12 on an unrelated case when they learned a person had arrived with a gunshot wound, according to the…… MORE
The people who count crops for a living have the first 2023 yield forecast out.… MORE
Normal is one step closer to changing the zoning codes for cannabis businesses.… MORE
Roger Schmidgall was honored as the Town of Normal’s 2023 Citizen of the Year at the town’s annual appreciation reception Wednesday.… MORE
According to a news release, Aimee Beam will be replacing former executive director Tara Ingham, who is relocating out of state.… MORE
Back 2 School Alliance hosted its 25th annual giveaway at State Farm on Tuesday.… MORE
By WMBD-TV ATLANTA, Ill. – An Atlanta, Ill. man was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison this week on charges he conspired with others to distribute methamphetamine. Juan E. Bernal, 54, had faced up to life in prison but U.S. District Judge James Shadid instead imposed the 252-month sentence. A lawful permanent resident of…… MORE
By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – A 36-year-old U.S. Postal Service worker was identified as the person killed in a two-vehicle crash Monday morning in Bloomington. McLean County Coroner Kathy Yoder said Ronald Bethard, Jr., of Pontiac, died from multiple blunt injuries due to his postal service vehicle struck by a sports utility vehicle. Per state statute,…… MORE
At Monday’s Normal Town Council meeting, both the public and some council members voiced concerns about two development projects.… 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…