WGLT Newscasts - 12:04pm 6-3-2025

Published Jun 3, 2025, 5:06 PM

This newscast aired at 12:04pm on 6-3-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm John Norton. Stagehand laborers for the Tailgate and Cowboys Music Festival in Bloomington allege a breach in contract over hiring outside of their union. Michael Irvin spoke to the Normal Town Council on behalf of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. I would ask this council to insist.

The USA Concert and Peace Tree use our local labor to keep investing in this community and safety with our skilled ETCP upriggers and ground riggers. Irvin alleges safety violations and injuries occurred when workers outside of their union were hired as stagehands in the past. The tailgate and Tower Boys Festival is June 12th through the 15th.

A homeless encampment near AutoZone in Normal was set to disperse Sunday, but some tents are still standing. Kim Massey with God's Mission Ministry has been helping the residents find alternative places to go. I do think absolutely that they should have been given an alternative place. Displacement is extremely hard and extremely disheartening, and they have nowhere to go. The town of Normal and city of Bloomington are continuing to work with several community groups, including

God's Mission Ministry on helping the residents relocate. Heartland Community College's president does not like a Trump administration proposal to put colleges and universities on the hook for part of defaulted student loans. Keith Cornell says one problem with the idea is

all the loans they took up to that point, whether at Heartland or what another institution, are all now the responsibility of Heartland Community College.

If we don't get those students to pay their loans, so it's essentially a tax on the college,

Cornell agrees loans aren't great, and the Illinois Supreme Court is considering if it will renew the appeals of two Twin City men who claim they were wrongfully convicted in unrelated 1990s murder cases.

Attorneys for Jamie Snow and Bart McNeill recently filed appeal petitions before the Supreme Court. A decision on whether the court will hear the appeals is expected within weeks. Snow was found guilty in the 1991 shooting death of a gas station attendant during a robbery. McNeill was convicted in the suffocation of his three-year-old daughter in 1998. 87, the high temp today. Showers and thunderstorms likely tonight. I'm John Norton, WGLT.

WGLT Newscasts

Local newscasts from WGLT, Bloomington-Normal's Public Media, part of the NPR Network. Updated throu 
Social links
Follow podcast
Recent clips
Browse 6,186 clip(s)