Peoria County News

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

It is a program designed to give neighbors the chance to reclaim their streets from drug dealers.

Peoria County coroner confirmed 46-year old Mary Higgins of Peoria Heigths is the first person in Peoria County to died from the H1N1 virus.

Clayton Glasper, 45, who is listed as homeless, appeared in Peoria County Circuit Court on Monday, charged with burglary and criminal trespass to a residence, both felonies... Court records indicate he allegedly broke out a screen window and struggled with his wife.

A Hanna City man accused of killing his mothera 'ina 'law and injuring his estranged wife entered a not guilty plea in Peoria County Court Thursday.

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.

Peoria City/County Health Department officials report the county's first confirmed H1N1 virus death.

Peoria County Sheriff Mike McCoy wil face a challenger in the Republican primary.

It might surprise some of you to know that a Peoria County Survey showed that 65% of the citizens who answered the survey said they "somewhat or strongly oppose a sales tax increase." Well, if they were paying attention they know they got a sales tax increase in the whole of Peoria County and it kicks in Jan.

Peoria Police are investigating two shootings from Friday night...one has left a teenager dead.

The City of Peoria announced today in the JS their proposed and estimated property taxes for 2010.

A Peoria man, charged with the city's fourth homicide of last year, was found guilty Wednesday by a judge of murder.

In this handout photo from the Peoria County Sheriff's Office, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, former graduate student at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, is photographed in his booking photo at Peoria County Sheriff's Office December 12, 2001 in Illinois.

An 18-year-old Pekin girl is brain dead. She was in a single-vehicle crash during a police pursuit over the weekend.

As reported in the JS today by reporter Clare Howard. There is a lot more to the story than what Ms.

A Peoria man is found shot dead in his home early Saturday morning. Police were called to this home on the 17-hundred block of North Machin around 7:50 Saturday morning.

A Peoria County man was ordered held on three million dollars bond Tuesday. Joseph Saric is charged with fatally shooting his mothera 'ina 'law, Geraldine Worske, and wounding his estranged wife, Crystal Saric, Sunday morning.

Where is the H1N1 vaccine? That is the question many are asking the federal government as the flu virus spreads.

According to the Peoria County Republican Website , Jim Montelongo, an at-large member of the Peoria City Council, has agreed to run for the GOP nomination for the Illinois House of Representatives in the 92nd District.

A bizarre sequence of events unfolded in the small town of Smithville, Sunday. Officials say 43-year-old Crystal Saric and her mother, 63-year-old Geraldine Worske went to speak with Crystal's estranged husband when he opened fire on them.