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UPDATE 4/21/21 2:15 P.M. — John W. Beck was arrested Wednesday morning at a hotel in Springfield, Ill. at approximately 11:30 a.m. for a Livingston County warrant for Armed Robbery and a Departm...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Tuesday reported the state’s seven-day statewide positivity rate is down to 4.5%. Last Wednesday, the positivity rate wa...

PEORIA, Ill. — With a positivity rate of 12%, Peoria County has more new cases of COVID-19 than any other area of Illinois. Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois College of Medicine i...

(Reuters) – Everyone in United States aged 16 years and above is now eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday. People aged 16 y...

PEORIA, Ill. - For the second year in a row, the traditional "Red, White, and Boom" event will not happen on the Fourth of July. Organizers said the current state of COVID-19 played a role. “It&...

Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a historic landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential el...

FARMINGTON, Ill. — Illinois American Water will be replacing over 3,000 feet of water main, approximately $635,000 worth, in the City of Farmington. According to Illinois American Water, work wi...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Monday reported 53% of Illinoisans 18 and older and 50% 16 and older have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. More th...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria City/County Health Department Monday reported an overall increase of 11 hospitalized patients due to COVID-19 compared to Friday, a concerning trend that continues to i...

(Reuters) – Texas authorities on Monday apprehended a former sheriff’s detective suspected of fatally shooting three people at an apartment complex in Austin a day earlier, police said. St...