Category Archives:

PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. — Illinois State Police said a man suffered life-threatening injuries when two semi-trailer trucks collided around 5 p.m. Thursday on Interstate 74 near Kickapoo. The westbou...

PEORIA,Ill. — Peoria Police were called late Thursday night to N. Sand Street and W. Hinton Avenue on reports of a shooting. Police said one person was wounded. There was no information about th...

***UPDATE*** Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the woman as 34-year-old Pamela Krasner. Harwood said she died instantly from blunt force trauma. The circumstances of her fall remained...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Labs across Illinois between Wednesday and Thursday received 62,071 tests for COVID-19. During that time, 2,257 people throughout the state received positive tests, while the...

PEORIA, Ill. — A woman from Tazewell County in her 70s has passed away from coronavirus complications, the county’s 24th such death and the 74th for Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford, combine...

EAST PEORIA, Ill. — Area residents gathered Thursday, while observing facial covering and social distancing protocols, in East Peoria to attend the opening ceremony of the Vietnam Traveling Memo...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Public Library’s North and Lakeview branches are closed after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. The Library’s Executive Director Randall Yelverton said ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral pandemic is still squeezing restaurants, a...

PEORIA, Ill. — The Peoria Park District voted 4-2 Wednesday night to remove a statue of explorer Christopher Columbus from Bradley Park, replacing it with green space. The move follows several t...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health on Wednesday added 1,848 cases of COVID-19 and 22 deaths related to the virus to the state totals. Labs throughout the state reported...