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(UPDATE) - One person is dead after a shooting in the 800 block of E. Nebraska, near the intersection of Wisconsin, around 6:50 p.m. Thursday. Police say an adult male was found with a gunshot wound t...

Peoria Police arrested a man Wednesday afternoon after a woman was reportedly being held against her will in a house on W. Kettelle. Thursday, police identified 39-year-old Talya Zolicoffer as the sus...

A large paving operation will begin Friday, Sept. 13 on Dirksen Parkway from Airport Road to Johanson Road starting at 7 a.m. For the first two hours of the project, the traffic signals at the Airport...

CHICAGO (AP) - A federal investigation has found Chicago Public Schools' handling of sexual abuse complaints is "tragic and inexcusable" and is requiring a major overhaul. The Department of Education'...

Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics were called to the Timberbrook Apartments, at 4009 N. Brookdale Building #6, around 9 p.m. Wednesday, finding heavy smoke coming from a first floor laundry room. Initial ...

Construction will close down a portion of an East Peoria walking trail at the end of the month. Mike Johnson, with Fon du Lac Park District, says bridge pier work will temporarily close a section of t...

Peoria Firefighters and Paramedics responded to Hines School at 4603 N. Knoxville on Wednesday around 3:30 P.M. to a report of a trash can on fire inside the school. Upon arrival, Firefighters found t...

Peoria City Councilman Zach Oyler pleaded not guilty to domestic battery charges Wednesday morning in court. Oyler was arrested on July 30 on charges of aggravated domestic battery, interfering with a...

PEORIA, Ill. -- A standoff outside a home Wednesday afternoon on the 1800 block of West Kettelle resulted in two arrests, including the arrest of a man who allegedly held a female inside the home agai...

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson & Johnson, alleging they carried out "unfair and deceptive" mar...