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***UPDATE*** 5/3/21 4:15 P.M. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the corpse as that of 43-year-old Jason Rutherford of Peoria. A toxicology test was pending, but Harwood reiterated no ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Arson has been determined to be the cause of a house fire at 2400 W Lincoln Sunday morning around 4:45 a.m. Heavy smoke was seen by first arriving crews from the front door and ou...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics responded to the 3500 block of N Dries Ln. Saturday afternoon just before 1:30 p.m. for a report of a vehicle that went through a ravine into a creek...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police are investigating a stabbing that took place Friday night in a parking lot in the 1200 block of S Western Ave. An adult male drove to a local hospital around 11:20 p...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police responded to the area of the 1400 block of SW Adams St. around 1:15 a.m. Saturday morning regarding a ShotSpotter alert. Dispatch then informed police of several Sho...

***UPDATE*** 5/10/21 4 P.M. 19-year-old Jeffrey D. Thompson, Jr. was interviewed Friday night and then subsequently arrested by Peoria Police Detectives. He was then charged with two counts of aggrava...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Thursday-Friday COVID-19 reporting period in Illinois brought another 3,000-plus case count. 3,207 people throughout the state tested positive. 33 died. The daily average...

EAST MOLINE, Ill. — On the same day her 2020 opponent announced she would be leaving Congress at the end of her term, Republican Esther Joy King announced her candidacy for the 17th District of ...

PEORIA, Ill. — Six residents of the Peoria-Tazewell-Woodford tri-county between Thursday and Friday passed away from COVID-19 complications. A Peoria woman in her 50s and one in her 60s succumbe...