Category Archives: Police and Fire
Attorneys deliver closing arguments for 2018 triple murder trial
Judge Casey Costigan said he expected to have a verdict by Wednesday afternoon. (Photo courtesy: HOI/ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – The judge who will decide the fate of a McLean Coun...
Feb 01, 2021
BPD probing shots fired on city’s west side
Anyone with information should contact Detective Jesse Lanphear at 309-434-2369 or JLanphear@cityblm.org. (WJBC file photo) By Neil DoyleBLOOMINGTON – Police are investigating a shooting th...
Feb 01, 2021
Sydney Mays Trial: Witnesses struggle to remember during fourth day of testimony
Sydney Mays Jr. of Bloomington, talks with a member of his legal team in the courtroom at the Law and Justice Cener Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, as he faces charges that he murdered Nate Pena, Corey Jackson...
Jan 29, 2021
Witnesses recount hearing gunfire during second day of testimony in Bloomington murder trial
Sydney Mays Jr. of Bloomington, arrives in the courtroom at the Law and Justice Cener Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, as he faces charges that he murdered Nate Pena, Corey Jackson and Juan Carlos Perez and inj...
Jan 27, 2021
Man charged in Twin-Cities sexual assault released on bond
John Fennell, 19, of Indiana. (Photo courtesy: McLean County Jail)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – An Indiana man has posted bond and was released Tuesday morning from the McLean County Jai...
Jan 27, 2021
Bloomington’s Whalen given more prison time as he finishes sentence for 1991 killing
Donald Whalen. (Photo courtesy: Illinois Department of Corrections)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – Additional prison time has been ordered for a Bloomington man who is almost done serving ...
Jan 21, 2021
BPD: 2 arrested for gun possession and illegal drugs
Ransom Fellers (left) and Brandy Collins. (Photo Bloomington Police Department) By Neil DoyleBLOOMINGTON – Police arrested two Bloomington residents on Friday as a result of an ongoing Stre...
Jan 18, 2021
Pekin piano teacher’s first of six child molestation trials set for October
Aaron Parlier, 39, of Pekin. (Photo courtesy: McLean County Jail)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – It will be another 10 months before the first of a half-dozen trials is held for a Pekin pi...
Jan 12, 2021
No COVID outbreak at McLean County Jail despite claims otherwise, sheriff says
McLean County Jail. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMINGTON – There is no COVID-19 outbreak at the McLean County Jail, according to the sheriff, despite claims on social m...
Jan 06, 2021
Neighborhood watch leads to arrest of home burglary suspect in Normal
Vincent Nelson, 34. (Photo courtesy McLean County Jail) By HOI ABCNORMAL – Neighbors looking out for each other led to the arrest of a suspected burglar who broke into a home in Normal on S...
Dec 31, 2020
