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WGLT For the more than 40 alleged looters, the insistence by judges that defendants pay restitution to businesses and the Bloomington and Normal police departments has added massive potential debt to the long-term consequences of their misconduct. Looters who stormed several local businesses and damaged police cars last summer are facing serious financial and legal consequences for the civil unrest, including restitution of more than $100,000, in cases resolved so far. For the more than 40 alle...

Charlie Schlenker / WGLT Looters who stormed several local businesses and damaged police cars last summer are facing serious financial and legal consequences for the civil unrest, including restitution of more than $100,000, in cases resolved so far. For the more than 40 alleged looters, the insistence by judges that defendants pay restitution to businesses and the Bloomington and Normal police departments has added massive potential debt to the long-term consequences of their misconduct. ...

Kaitlyn Conely was sentenced to 23 years in prison after poisoning her ex-boyfriends mother. At the sentencing, the poisoned victims widower, William Yoder, retold accounts of how his wife had spent her final hours vomiting and suffering from diarrhea. Just hours before those symptoms appeared, William said that his wife appeared to be the picture of health, according to The State report. "To get even with my son, she decided to murder his mother," William was quoted in a report. Conley and Yod...

The number of felony methamphetamine cases in McLean County continued its multiyear rise last year. Felony drug cases in McLean County rose by 32% last year to a record high, though the five-year trend is not as stark as the one-year jump. States Attorney Don Knapp said a lot of the increase came from methamphetamine offenses. "Judge (William)Yoder has said, Ive seen more cases in my courtroom in the last year than in the 12 years I was states attorney," said Knapp. Meth cases accounted for 40%...

Charlie Schlenker / WGLT Two people charged in looting incidents that led to more than 40 arrests last summer in the Twin Cities  lost their bids for a new judge on Monday after a second judge rejected their bias claim against Judge William Yoder. “This is not business as usual,” said McEldowney. Defendants in the looter cases are being treated differently than others accused of felony burglary, said McEldowney, calling Yoders position “a blanket decision" that amounts to “an abus...

Jimmy Beach / Facebook Residents of the Twin Cities were subjected to a night of fear and anarchy when looting broke out earlier this year, a judge said on Friday, as he agreed to give one of the looters a chance on probation. “This is not an offense that has anything to do with the theft of a television. It is an offense that involved kicking the community when it was at its lowest point,” Judge William Yoder told Deangelo Glass. The mob gathered outside Kohl’s, Walmart, Target and ...

BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington man was sentenced to 4½ years in prison for mob action related to the late May and early June looting in Normal and for unrelated 2019 charges. Anthony Crose, 21, was charged in June with four counts of mob action for his involvement in the violence outside Target late May 31 and early June 1. Three of those counts were dismissed by the state, according to online court records. Crose pleaded guilty to the offense as well as charges from May 2019 involving ...

BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington man was sentenced to 4½ years in prison for mob action related to the late May and early June looting in Normal and for unrelated 2019 charges. Anthony Crose, 21, was charged in June with four counts of mob action for his involvement in the violence outside Target late May 31 and early June 1. Three of those counts were dismissed by the state, according to online court records. Crose pleaded guilty to the offense as well as charges from May 2019 involving ...

Ryan Denham / WGLT In a sentence contrary to a state recommendation for probation, a judge on Wednesday sentenced a Bloomington man to 4½ years in prison and ordered him to pay restitution to the Town of Normal for damages to police squad cars caused by looters earlier this year. Anthony Crose was the first of more than 40 people to be sentenced by Judge William Yoder on charges related to the summer break-ins and thefts at several businesses, following the killing of George Floyd in Minn...

were now hearing that governor brown will unavailable a revised state budget today after he revoked one from law -- after he vetoed one from lawmakers last week. meantime, lawmakers are not getting paid. cot joins us live with more on what some people are -- claudine wong joins us live with more on what -- on what some people are thinking about this. >> reporter: gearing. everyone agrees balancing a budget in these difficult times is difficult. john chiang made the determination yester...