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Victim of Peoria crash identified
PEORIA, Ill. — The victim of a two-vehicle crash Friday morning has been identified as 34-year-old Aries Terrell of Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Terrell was pronounced dead a...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020
State COVID roundup 11/22: over 10,000 new cases statewide
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health reported an additional 10,012 new and probable cases of COVID-19, including 76 additional deaths on Sunday. As of Saturday night, 6,072 peo...
Julia Bradley Nov 23, 2020
COVID-19 vaccine could arrive by end of year
WASHINGTON (AP) – The head of the U.S. effort to produce a coronavirus vaccine says the first immunizations could happen on Dec. 12. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is set to m...
Jeremy Scott Nov 22, 2020
EP Festival of Lights gets underway
EAST PEORIA, Ill. — East Peoria’s annual Festival of Lights kicked off on Saturday night with the annual Parade of Lights. 30 floats drove by a substantial crowd of onlookers, brightening ...
Jeremy Scott Nov 22, 2020
State COVID roundup 11/21: 120k tested
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Department of Public Health reported 11,891 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19, including 127 more deaths, in the 24-hour reporting period between Friday a...
Jeremy Scott Nov 21, 2020
Biden to work to end executions as government sets 3 more
WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Joe Biden is against the death penalty and will work to end its use, his spokesman said Saturday, as the Justice Department scheduled three more federal executi...
Jeremy Scott Nov 21, 2020
Morton District 709 weekly COVID-19 update
MORTON, Ill. — COVID-19 numbers went down from the week of Nov. 13 to the week of Nov. 20 at Morton School District 709. This decrease continued the trend the district has seen the entire month ...
Jeremy Scott Nov 21, 2020
Friday East Bluff gunfire sends woman to hospital
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police were continuing an investigation Saturday morning into a late Friday night shooting in the East Bluff. Police were called around 10:40 to the 900 block of E. Republi...
Jeremy Scott Nov 21, 2020
City Treasurer Patrick Nichting will not seek re-election
PEORIA, Ill. — City of Peoria City Treasurer Patrick Nichting announced Friday that he will not seek another term as Treasurer. Nichting has served in the position since 2009. Prior to his posit...
Dalton Kemper Nov 20, 2020
Local COVID roundup 11/20: double digit death count
PEORIA, Ill. — 11 area residents died between Thursday and Friday from COVID-19 complications. Woodford County experienced the deaths of two Apostolic Christian residents. One was a male in his ...
Jeremy Scott Nov 20, 2020

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