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An agreement has been reached in a federal lawsuit filed by a Normal woman against a former Normal Police officer who admitted stealing $12,000 from her home during a police response to a medical emergency involving her husband.
As expected, the Normal Town Council on Tuesday annexed about 36 acres for the planned Carden Springs development, making way for nearly 500 new apartments and townhouses, near Interstate 55.
U.S. District Court Judge James Shadid has ruled that Lindsey Holzhauer failed to meet the legal standard for claims that former Normal Police Chief Rick Bleichner, former Lt. James Ferguson and current Lt. Tim Edmiaston conspired to thwart an investigation into missing money.
In Rica Rountree's case, mandated reporters alerted the state’s child welfare agency of potential serious abuse. They sounded the alarm bell repeatedly, only to have those alarms ignored or not thoroughly investigated by the agency tasked with doing so. Instead, the investigator who mishandled Rica’s case was promoted.
The new police chief for the Town of Normal is the current assistant chief, Steve Petrilli.