Category Archives: Local News

Judge Jodi Hoos has been named Peoria County State's Attorney. The Peoria County Board approved her appointment unanimously 15-0 at a special meeting Tuesday night. Hoos becomes Peoria County's first ...

A shooting in Peoria's East Bluff shooting leaves one injured. Peoria Police responded to the 2400 block of N. Atlantic about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, finding a man with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. T...

Peoria Fire and Rescue responded to a person reported to be in the river and clinging to the side Tuesday afternoon. Rescue crews did not locate anyone in the river, but a man who matched the descript...

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center is offering emergency training in hopes of saving lives. "Stop the Bleed" is part of a nationwide campaign to address the most common cause of preventable trauma death...

Former player and coach of Washington Community High School will not return to the school. Hayley Reneau, 23, was arrested Monday for an alleged sexual assault relating to an inappropriate relationshi...

In less than 24 hours, two shootings have occurred in Peoria's East Bluff. Tuesday, at 12:13 p.m. Peoria Police responded to a Shotspotter alert of shots fired near the 200 block of E. Corrington. Pol...

(AP) - Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. She was the first black woman ...

(AP) - Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is responding to the mass shooting in Dayton by urging the GOP-led state Legislature to pass laws requiring background checks for nearly all gun sales and allow...

CityLink is helping area college students save a few bucks. They are giving college kids a discount on passes to encourage them take the bus. Students can ride CityLink buses for 50 cents with a schoo...

(AP) - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says he's thankful that the state has not suffered a mass shooting like those over the weekend - without mentioning two mass killings in the past decade. The Democra...