Author: Colleen Holden
This is a developing story. The following information is accurate as of March 22 at 1:14 p.m. Further updates will be made as more information is released NORMAL, Ill. – Normal Police are investigating a shooting that injured six people early this morning. Officers responded around 2:40 a.m. to reports of multiple shots fired […]
UPDATE: Contreras was located at approximately 10:22 p.m. on Feb. 9 NORMAL, Ill. — Illinois State University Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing child. Miguel Contreras, 12, was last seen walking alone near the corner of Fell Avenue and North Street at around 5:37 p.m. He was heading toward the […]
Image courtesy of the official SERC Instagram page In the 1970s, a national movement was born with the goal of demanding safety for women when walking alone at night and eliminating the normalized societal behaviors that made them feel unsafe in the first place. Over 50 years later, with decades of history fueling their fire, […]
BLOOMINGTON- Ill. – The planned March on Bloomington, advertised by a flyer circulating in Bloomington-Normal with a swastika insignia symbolizing the group’s promise to “claim Illinois for real citizens,” turned out to be false. What turned out to be true was the pushback against the supposed march’s narrative, as a couple of hundred citizens showed […]
Parts of Normal, including ISU campus have lost power Around 3 p.m. Wednesday, parts of Normal, including Uptown, Downtown, and ISU’s campus suffered an unexpected power outage. No official cause has been determined, but it is likely due to severe weather. There is no information on how long the outage may last. If you need […]
NORMAL, Ill. – The Normal Police are investigating a report received at 4:15 p.m. yesterday of a pedestrian hit by a train near the tracks at Towanda Ave. and Kays Drive. Upon arrival, the officers located the individual – 19-year-old James E. Camden from East Peoria, who was pronounced deceased at 5:04 p.m. by the […]
This is a developing situation. WZND will update this story as new information is released NORMAL, Ill – The ISU Police Department released an emergency alert to all of campus at 7:55 p.m., stating that shots had been fired at the Bone Student Center. There is one reported victim with a non-life threatening gunshot wound. […]
Image courtesy of the UFISU official Instagram page The WZND Newsroom will continue to update this developing story as it develops. The following information is accurate as of 4/4/2025 at 4:30 p.m. NORMAL, Ill. – UFISU and the university have reached a tentative agreement many bargaining sessions. The details of the agreement may be […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The Bloomington Police Department and McLean County Coroner’s Office have released the identities of the four dead individuals found on the 900 block of North Lee Street on Sunday morning. Pronounced deceased at 12:27 p.m., on Feb. 23, 2025, were Christopher H. Simmons, age 33, of Bloomington, Illinois; Chelsea L. Lusher, age […]
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Four people were found dead Sunday morning at a home in the northwest corner of Bloomington. Bloomington police and paramedics were dispatched to the 900 block of North Lee Street around 11 a.m. for a death investigation inside a residence. A press release sent out Sunday evening states the event is an […]