West Peoria News

The American Red Cross Central Illinois Chapter is making it easy for people to drive sober this fourth of July.

An early morning fire has damaged a church in West Peoria. Firefighters responded to a call at the Cross Baptist Church on West Heading in around 4:45 Friday morning.

In the early hours of Thursday June 18th, our huge hickory tree in our backyard in West Peoria fell down over some power lines.

Human service providers say help for senior citizens and the disabled will be greatly affected if the state budget cuts are not restored.

Former Peoria Manual and University of Illinois Basketball player Frank Williams was arrested on drug charges in Peoria this morning.

Katelyn Bushnell has been a Saint Jude patient for almost a year now. On July first last year doctors diagnosed her with a cranial brain tumor.

A husband and wife have been found shot dead in their West Peoria home. Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll pronounced 52-year-old Connie Selburg and her husband, 57-year-old Robert Selburg dead on Tuesday morning.

Peoria Journal Star columnist Phil Luciano a 'arrested on battery and trespass charges over the weekend a ' did not appear on his daily radio show on WMBD this afternoon.

A 23-year-old West Peoria man told a Peoria County sheriff's deputy he was struck in the head with a gun during an attempted armed robbery Friday night at Cams, 2510 W. Farmington Road.

But that's where Beach Boy Bruce Johnston got his start - not alongside the Pacific Ocean but here in the river city.

Candles left burning overnight may have been the cause of a fire early Monday at Kingspark Estates in Peoria County.

You know Peoria is not a suburb of Chicago. Thirty years ago, when Ella Herndon's husband told her he had a job opportunity in Peoria, she said there was no way she was leaving Chicago.

If the clerk at the dry cleaner was willing to keep an open mind, then the attorney for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri says he is willing to trust his client's fate in the hands of a jury here.

Team Steam is under way. And old, faithful Building Steam is up and running. Jogging and walking also are incorporated in the Illinois Valley Striders' premiere training program designed to get participants ready for the Steamboat Classic on June 20.

Peoria Police are investigating a shooting that happened earlier today. Police say they were called to 2605 West Richwoods Boulevard off of Sterling in Peoria around 6-30 this morning after a report of shots fired.

Mystery partly solved: We won't let Denise Laack become unknown again. Last week, I wrote about the discovery of the bodies of the two Connolly boys and their father.

Though Peoria County hasn't officially decided the fate of Bel-Wood Nursing Home, public sentiment and prevailing opinion from county officials are gravitating toward building a new facility.

Velma Walter, a UAW retiree, carries out yet another tray of fried fish to the serving line during the fish fry at UAW Local 974 Hall.

A Chillicothe couple accused of bilking thousands of dollars from clients through an advertising scam were indicted last week by a Peoria County grand jury.

The man many have ached to get a glimpse of is short and stocky, has a long, stringy beard, wears glasses and has a toothy grin.