Suspected cop killer Floyd Brown, who’s now in police custody, was not a stranger to local authorities. Bloomington Police have been looking for Brown, 39, of Springfield, since just before Christmas when he led officers on a high-speed chase that ended in a multi-car crash on Veterans Parkway.… MORE
Illinois State Police have surrounded an armed and dangerous suspect wanted on multiple warrants including a McLean County warrant. … MORE
Illinois State Police officers are in a pursuit with an armed and dangerous suspect wanted in McLean County. … MORE
Livingston County Sheriff’s detectives said they found an endangered runaway girl on Wednesday at a Bloomington hotel after she had been missing for five days.… MORE
An Ellsworth man who died in a one car accident Sunday morning has been identified.… MORE
Bloomington police say the man arrested in connection with a stabbing on the city’s east side on Thursday night was the victim’s roommate.… MORE
Bloomington Police are investigating a stabbing that happened just before 11 p.m. Thursday at 2606 of Hall Court, on the city’s east side.… MORE
For the second straight week, Illinois State Police have seized a large amount of ready-for-sale cocaine in McLean County.… MORE
Moe’s Southwest Grill in north Normal will reopen Friday, just three days after an SUV plowed through the dining room.… MORE
Bloomington Police were praised Wednesday night for their efforts to fight crime even though some neighborhoods have been rattled by escalating violence.… 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…