By Howard Packowitz BLOOMINGTON – McLean County’s chief prosecutor said it’s not his call whether police will actively investigate the killing almost five years ago of Bloomington financial planner Pamela Zimmerman. A jury on Monday acquitted Zimmerman’s former husband, Kirk, of her murder that happened in November 2014. State’s Attorney Don Knapp said the…… MORE
Bloomington Police report three people wearing masks robbed a business at gunpoint Friday night just south of Downtown Bloomington.… MORE
Bloomington Police are asking for help in identifying two suspects from an armed robbery Monday in the 1000 block of Six Points Road.… MORE
The Livingston County coroner said dental records or DNA will be used to positively identify the charred remains of a driver whose car struck a guard rail and burned just north of Chatsworth.… MORE
Bloomington Police are investigating an armed robbery at a business on the southwest side.… MORE
Authorities now report two people were hospitalized, and a third person was arrested for drunken driving late Friday night after a car struck pedestrians crossing College Avenue in Normal.… MORE
A woman was badly hurt late Friday night when she was hit by a car in Normal.… MORE
The death in January of an 8-year old Prairieland Elementary School student from Normal has been labeled a homicide, and authorities blame a woman, believed to be the girl’s stepmother, for the child’s death.… MORE
The defense in the Kirk Zimmerman murder trial tried to show the jury that a prosecution witness could not have seen him outside the office where his ex-wife Pam was murdered because she wasn’t wearing her glasses.… MORE
Bloomington Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two suspects who held up a Subway restaurant in the 2300 block of East Oakland Avenue on Thursday.… 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…