The American Red Cross came to the aid of a woman whose apartment in northwest Normal was damaged by fire Tuesday night.… MORE
Category Archives: Police and Fire
Shots fired early Saturday morning in Normal
The sound of gunshots were heard early Saturday morning in the 800 block of South Fell Avenue in Normal.… MORE
UPDATED: Prosecutor says Facebook user knew LeRoy girl he was soliciting for sex was only 11
A man reportedly told LeRoy Police he was drunk, and it was stupid for him to communicate with an 11-year old girl he knew on the Facebook Messenger application to lure her into having sex.… MORE
Bail boosted for Riley Drive triple murder suspect
A McLean County judge raised the bond Friday for accused triple murderer Sydney Mays.… MORE
LeRoy PD: Danville man on Facebook lures child for sex
LeRoy Police have arrested a man accused of using the Facebook Messenger application to solicit sex from a child. … MORE
‘Multiple’ BPD vehicles return triple murder suspect to McLean County
The suspect in a Bloomington triple murder is back in McLean County to answer to the charges three months after his arrest in a Milwaukee drug case.… MORE
BPD looks for robber who stole bank bags from Eastland Mall store
Bloomington Police are asking for the public’s help to find the man who took off with two bank bags during the noon hour Tuesday from a store at Eastland Mall.… MORE
Fire destroys Carlock business
A Carlock business has been destroyed by a Tuesday midday fire.… MORE
Half dozen children among the injured in Woodford County house fire
A house fire in the Woodford County community of Secor, between Eureka and
El Paso, sent a total of nine people to local hospitals.… MORE
Farmers Market patrons asked to help vendor in need
The Farmers Market in Downtown Bloomington is coming to the aid of one of its vendors who lost everything in a house fire last month in rural Bloomington.… MORE
Blogs
WJBC Voices: The safe, legal and rare fraud
At one time, Hillary Clinton’s mantra about abortion was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” I suspected then that she really meant only the “legal” part, and time has borne out that suspicion.
WJBC Voices: Rauner’s Toyota claim a misleading, false promise
On September 27, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner told the Pantagraph that Bloomington-Normal was in serious contention for a Mazda-Toyota auto plant, but the existence of unions and Illinois laws lost the potential jobs to Alabama.
WJBC Voices: “Progressive” has nothing to do with progress
One of the gubernatorial candidates is advocating a progressive income tax as the solution to the state’s economic problems.
WJBC Voices: Celebrating local workers
By Mike Matejka Labor Day is perhaps the most mis-understood holiday in the nation’s calendar. Traditionally viewed as a summer’s end celebration, its real roots are in worker protest, trying to claim and celebrate their role in society. In Bloomington, local unions organize and march together, along with community groups and aspiring politicians, in Monday’s…