Peoria News

The victim of Thursday's house fire in Peoria may have died from health issues... not the fire.

Aaron Cook had been in the Peoria Country Jail awaiting his trial for four months, James Fuller for two years.

An autopsy is scheduled on Friday for a Peoria man killed in a house fire Thursday morning.

Authorities this morning are working under the premise that an escaped rapist is still somewhere in the Peoria area.

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Nov. 11, 1918, was a glorious day in Peoria, when news arrived that the "War To End All Wars" was finally over.

Peoria police are investigating a shooting late Friday night. Authorities say a 17-year-old was shot in the back near the corner of Richmond and Linn.

If James Taylor epitomized the definition and the original, late-'60s incarnation of the term singer/songwriter, Dan Fogelberg exemplified the late-'70s equivalent of that term at its most highly developed and successful, with a string of platinum-selling albums and singles into the early '80s and a long career since, interrupted only by a health ...

On Monday, November 16th, the contractor for the Methodist Medical Center Hamilton Boulevard project will be closing northbound Hamilton Boulevard between Crescent Avenue and Randolph to correct grade issues with the roadway.

A deer has crashed through a plate glass window at a central Illinois meat store that processes deer meat.

PEORIA - About 70 Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers who served in Afghanistan over the last year are expected to return home today.

The University of Illinois Springfield in Peoria recently opened a new University of Illinois A Peoria Center in the Illinois Central College Perley Building, Room 120, on 115 Southwest Adams Street in Peoria, Illinois.

Hundreds of residents from Peoria and Marshall County lined up for an H1N1 Clinic underway in Chillicothe Monday evening.

If you are in the giving mood this Christmas, there are a number of organizations in Peoria, Illinois looking for Christmas volunteer work and charitable donations.

A 17-year-old girl has been found dead in the basement of a Peoria house under what authorities are calling "suspicious" circumstances.

A Peoria man died in a car crash early Saturday morning where police say the driver was under the influence.

It's a school that focuses on math, science and technology. A charter school could soon be in Peoria.

In our area there are three confirmed deaths related to the H1N1 virus. News of the latest death came today from Peoria City/County Health officials.

One of two suspects, nabbed in connection with a carjacking and shooting on Peoria's south side earlier this year, pleaded guilty Tuesday just as his trial was about to begin.

A special group of puppies was treated to a first-birthday celebration at a west Valley high school Thursday.