Category Archives: Local News

GALESBURG, Ill. - Seventeenth District Congressman Eric Sorensen only been in office since January for his first term. Now, he already has an opponent in next year's election. Galesburg-based philanth...

PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man says he's not guilty of charges accusing him of opening fire outside of a West Peoria bar last month. Brandon Eckwood was charged by a grand jury Tuesday with three Class-X...

PEORIA, Ill. - A Washington woman will spend several years in prison in connection with a fatal accident she caused in Peoria in 2021. Peoria County Court records indicate Destinee Cole, 23, was sente...

KEWANEE, Ill. - The Peoria Police Bomb Squad was called to a nearby community to help find a bomb, and they did. Police in Kewanee say it happened Tuesday as police pulled over a motor home in the cit...

PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is going to prison for more than a decade after pleading guilty late last year to charges connected with methamphetamine. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Demetrice Sharp, 3...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A federal judge in Chicago this week denied a request to block enforcement of both state and local bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, sayi...

PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria teenager is no longer facing a murder charges, but he will spend the better part of several decades in prison in connection with a fatal shooting. Demarian Palmer, 19, was sent...

PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County residents will either already have or soon receive their real estate tax bills. Peoria County Treasurer Nicole Bjerke says the bills are being mailed out this week. The bi...

PEORIA, Ill. - The man accused of shooting and killing a woman after allegedly breaking in to her Dunlap apartment has been arraigned. Walter Artis, Jr., 26, entered a plea in Peoria County Court Thur...