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NORMAL, Ill. – Starting in 2023, all police recruits in the state of Illinois must take a Wrongful Conviction Awareness and Avoidance course as part of their training. The course was initially developed in 2016 by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Police Training Institute Director Michael Schlosser with help from the Illinois Innocence Project at the […]
Photo provided by Illinois.gov NORMAL, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has reported that the CDC is reporting that 15 counties are high alert for COVID-19, while 14 counties are on medium alert. As of Feb 5, 2023, the agency recorded that there were over four million total cases and over 36,000 […]
NORMAL, Ill. – It’s all about marquees and headlines for one Illinois State University student who followed his childhood dream. Television production major and ISU senior Ben Meenan, along with other cast and crew members, put their minds together to create a full feature-length movie. The film titled SUNDAY* is set in a world where […]
NORMAL, Ill.- The Normal Town Council held their first town meeting of the month on Feb. 6, 2023. Many gathered in the city hall chambers Monday evening as a proposal to open a cannabis dispensary at the location of the Mandarin Garden Restaurant near College Avenue and Veterans Parkway was rejected 6-1, with council members […]
Photo provided by BloNo Pizza Co. NORMAL, Ill. – A local Bloomington-Normal restaurant is having a fundraiser on Sunday, February 5 to help raise funds for the prevention of child abuse. BloNo Pizza Co. is working in collaboration with the Child Protecting Network to host a golf tournament in their facility. The CPN is an […]
Photo provided by the Normal Police Department NORMAL, Ill. – Matthew Listman, 21, was reported missing in Normal on Thursday January 26. On Friday, he was found by a creek and pronounced dead. The Illinois State University student was last seen alive at 10:15 p.m. on the 26th near North Main Street and Orlando Avenue […]
Photo provided by McLean County NORMAL, Ill. – While McLean County Unit 5 students only had a half day at school on Tuesday, January 31, droves of parents, teachers and students crowded into Normal West High School to attend a special board meeting later that evening. Over 400 individuals tuned in for a livestream of […]
Photo provided by the Bloomington Police Department NORMAL, Ill. – The Bloomington Police Department has teamed up with a program to help build trust in the community by offering vouchers rather than citations. Bloomington PD Public Information Officer Brandt Parsley explains what the Lights On! Program is all about. “Lights on is a program funded […]
NORMAL, Ill. – Earlier this week, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB4664, a sweeping reproductive rights and gender affirming care omnibus bill that protects health care providers and their patients from legal attacks by neighboring states and expands health care access and options across the state. The act takes major steps to expand access by guaranteeing […]
NORMAL, Ill. – On Monday Jan. 16, various buildings across the Illinois State University campus experienced major power outages. Despite the vast area covered by the outage, ISU electricians worked to restore power to the affected areas of campus within the day. At around 2 p.m. on Monday, an emergency alert was issued from ISU […]