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One person was shot to death Thursday afternoon at a home in the 700 block of West Mossville on the north side of Peoria.It a...
Authorities now say a man who died while deer hunting in western Illinois was shot to death by his father in a likely acciden...
Peoria Police are investigating a homicide which occurred late Wednesday night, in the Goose Lake area of the city's southsid...
A large van carrying 13 people was hit head on by an SUV Tuesdaymorning in Fulton County, killing three. Fulton County Sherif...
Police are looking into a burglary at the Walgreen's at Knoxville and McClure in Peoria. Police responded to a burglar alarm ...
Peoria Police are investigating an overnight homicide. Officers were called to the 2100 block of Howett about 120am Saturday ...
A pending funding cut to the state of Illinois police Mobile Training Unit program would be devastating to crucial law enforc...
An 83-year old Peoria woman is dead after being hit by a truck in the beauty salon she was in.The truck went through the Plaz...
An 83-year old Peoria woman is dead after being hit by a truck in the beauty salon she was in.The truck went through the Plaz...
A Peoria man is sentenced to life in prison. Edjuan Payne was convicted of killing Orvette Davis in May of 2010. Payne beat, ...
A Peoria man has been indicted on charges of robbing the same financial institution twice, and holding up a pair of other bus...
A Pekin City Councilman accused of an altercation with a Pekin Police officer last weekend has resigned. John Neumann submitt...
A 15-year old boy pleads guilty in Peoria County juvenile court to charges related to a gun found at Limestone High School. T...
Peoria police have arrested on man in connection with a Thursday night shooting. 21-year old Juan Nesbit is booked on a charg...
A recent rash of home invasions and robberies targeting the elderly have Peoria Police asking people to be aware of their sur...
A Dunlap teacher resigns after administrators discover he was secretly video taping students at Dunlap Valley Middle and Dunl...
A continuance has been granted in the upcoming felony trial of a Peoria City Councilman. Dan Irving faces one count of solici...
A 3 vehicle accident involving a motorcycle sends the male victim on the bike to the hospital with what is being called life ...
Peoria County Sheriff's Department investigators continue to look into the unusual circumstances of a young woman's d...
Police are looking for a 20-year-old man who escapes from a squad car. Courtney Trapps was being questioned by police early S...
APeoria man has been officially charged with neglect in the death of his son. Darnell Hunter Senior remains in Peoria County ...
A Pekin man accused of robbing a Bartonville Bank last weekhas beenordered to jail, called a "danger to the community&qu...
A 14-year-old boy accused of firing gunshots into the ceiling of Normal Community high school pleads guilty, but mentally ill...
The highest ranking Peoria police officer investigated for his role in falsely reporting an unmarked vehicle stolen after it ...
(Sharome Kruz, photo courtesy of News 25)Three have been arrested for a homicide and the shooting of another this past week. ...
Careless use of smoking materials is the cause of a Peoria house fire over the weekend. Firefighters found the blaze at the b...
A Pekin man is sentenced to six months in jail and 30 months probation in Tazewell County court. 50-year old Robert Tomlinson...
A Metamora man has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor charges after being hospitalized for weeks following an incident w...
(AP) - Federal prosecutors say ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich should be sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison. The 54-...
A crash involving a semi-truck and a station wagon kills one. Tazewell County Coroner Carl Powell says a 69 year old woman wa...
Two people captured after spending 12 years on the run from accusations they bilked investors out of about $1.7 million a...
A Knox County judge has sentenced killing spree suspect Nicholas Sheley to life in prison without the possibility of parole. ...
An autopsy will be performed today on a Chillicothe man, found dead on a vacant lot near the Illinois River in that city Frid...
The death of a Peoria Heights man is being investigated as a homicide. The Peoria County Coroner's office says 81-year old Bi...
A Pekin man who was found crushed underneath a vehicle inside a secured lot of All-Star towing Friday, died from compression ...
Security privileges are revoked for Peoria County Board member Brad Harding. Harding's key-card to get into security entr...
There's good preliminary news on the violent crime numbers for Peoria in 2011. Homicides, shootings, aggravated assaults ...
Peoria police are investigating a shooting. One man was shot in the face around 7:00 Friday night as he opened the front door...
Officers responded to the initial reports of someone possibly shot in the backyard at 517 Vine in the North Valley about 430a...
Peoria Police are investigating a home invasion just before midnight that resulted in an occupant of the house being injured....
Peoria Police are seeing many targeted thefts of both commercial and residential central air conditioning units recently. Lt....
Two residents of a Eureka home that caught on fire early Wednesday are dead, but not from the fire. Woodford County Coroner T...
Peoria police are lookingfor the suspects who robbed an individual. Police say two black men, one armed with a gun, approache...
Five individuals have been arrested in connection to a rash of vehicle burglaries in East Peoria. East Peoria Police says the...
A Peoria man suspected of threatening police officers in a phone call is arrested Monday. Police thought they were making the...
The man accused of selling Vicodin pills to a Bradley men's basketball player has posted bond.34 year old Jared Fletcher ...
Bond has been set for a man accused of robbing a Pekin Bank last week. 24 year old Casey Rice is being held in Tazewell Count...
Peoria Police continue to investigate two shootings in the city within minutes of each other Thursday night. One still uniden...
(AP) - A lawyer says another set of DNA test results strengthen the claims of innocence of a man who spent 13 years in prison...
A Peoria man, jailed after a standoff with Peoria Police at his home Thursday, has been released after posting bond. Peoria C...
A Peoria man pleads guilty to an illegal weapons charge, after once being charged with first degree murder.28 year old Alex F...
Not exactly the kind of wake up call two guys on the far northwest side of Peoria were hoping for Thursday morning."We e...
The shooting deaths of a Peoria man and woman are being investigated as a murder-suicide.31-year old Carlos Hightower was fou...
The husband of a woman who runs an in-home daycare in Washington has been arrested for striking an injuring a 3 month old gir...
A shooting suspect's bond is set a half-million dollars. 21-year old Juan Nesbit is being held in the Peoria County Jail on o...
At least a dozen incidents of reported gun shots occurred around Peoria from Saturday evening into the early hours Sunday mor...
Peoria police arrest 28 people in a 24-hour time frame from Thursday morning through Friday morning. It's what spokesman Offi...
Jurors have convicted an Illinois powerbroker of conspiring to shake down the Oscar-winning producer of "Million Dollar ...
A Peoria man is sentenced to 20 years in prison in connection with a fatal November 2011 shooting. 24-year-oldRobert Buford p...
Three Peoria men, one a member of the gang known as "Bomb Squad," are arrested after a fight at Manual Academy. The...
Bradley basketball center Will Egolf will definitely miss Wednesday game at Southern Illinois.Egolf is in the Peoria County J...
The new year is likely to be anything but a happy one for Rod Blagojevich. But the prison-bound former governor has posted a ...
The victim of a fatal fall from scaffolding at Illinois State University Monday night has been identified as an out of town r...
A 64 year old resident ofa Peoria housefire late Saturday night was given CPR at the scene and taken to the hospital for trea...
First responders who may come across a high profile crime scene, such as in Connecticut, have a counseling mechanism to help ...
(AP) - An Arkansas woman who pleaded guilty to calling in a bomb threat to a cruise ship when she was visiting her daughter i...
(AP) - Inmate M35067 will spend 38 years in the maximum-security Pontiac Correctional Center for murdering his third wife.Pri...
An unidentified man is the victim of multiple gunshot wounds at a Peoria apartment complex Friday night. Peoria Police called...
If there is something good that can come out of a tragedy, Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis is going to try. Mayor Jim Ardis announced ...
Peoria Police were able to apprehend a bank robbery suspect shortly after the holdup in the East Bluff Friday afternoon. Offi...
An East Bluff couple says their vehicle was shot at early Christmas morning as they arrived home, then found their house had ...
A federal appeals court in Chicago has denied an appeal filed by imprisoned former Illinois Gov. George Ryan. The 7th U.S. Ci...
On Friday night, Peoria police arrested Amanda M. Ludwig, a Manual Academy teacher, based upon an investigation conducted joi...
(AP) - A Tazewell County judge has denied a request for a new trial from a woman convicted in the suffocation death of her au...
Law enforcement will be out in full force again during the extended Thanksgiving holiday season. High ranking officers from s...
A Pekin man is arrested following a double stabbing.Pekin police say officers responded to a domestic dispute about 10:45 Tue...
Police say they've arrested a suspect believed to have robbed the Peoria Community Bank branch at 6907 N. Knoxville on Ja...
The Peoria Police Department is focusing its attention on violent offenders as the "Don't Shoot" anti gun-viole...
A Farmington teen accused of threatening to shoot up his high school pleas tothe lesser charge.The 16 year old boy admits to ...
It looks like a convicted killer from 25 years ago will get a day in court.Johnnie Lee Savory has been granted a preliminary ...
The two people charged with taking a small brother and sister apparently from a Peoria counseling and family services center ...
(AP) - Authorities say the two people found dead in a burned Aledo home had been shot and died before the fire began.Mercer C...
Several separate robberies have Peoria Police investigating the incidents. All occurred early Wednesday night within an hour ...
Three woman here taken to local hospitals for treatment following a 3 car crash Saturday afternoon. Illinois State Police rep...
A 15-year old boy who is a Dunlap High School student is booked on a misdemeanor drug possession charge.The student was arres...
A teenager girlwas hit by a car at Knoxville and Nebraska Monday afternoon. The incident happenedat about 2:45. Peoria Police...
A Peoria man is in custody booked on charges of shooting another man in the chest early Saturday. 31 year old Daris Miller is...
Peoria School District 150 is releasing information about an attempted abduction at one of its primary schools. A district sp...
(AP) - Prosecutors in central Illinois say a 14-year-old boy is fit to stand trial on charges accusing him of firing gunshots...
A gun was held to the head of a customer during a robbery at a Peoria store Tuesday afternoon.The robbery happenedjust before...
Three alleged Peoria gang members face up to a year in jail after being arrested for being in each other's company.30-yea...
The Greater Peoria Area Crimestoppers is providing larger rewards for information that leads to the arrest and indictment of ...
(From WEEK News 25) - A Peoria County coroner's jury has ruled the April death of a Dunlap High School student as acciden...
Eight subjects have been arrested, the first round of apprehensions as part of Peoria's Most Violent Offender Program. Al...
A Peoria man has been indicted for 2nd degree murder plus other charges for the recent beating death of a Manual Academy stud...
About 10 family members, friends and even a canine hold signs to rally outside Peoria City Hall in support of a police office...
A Peoria Manual Academy art teacher remains in federal custody, pending a bond hearing next Monday.28 year old Amanda Ludwig ...
Someone apparently tried to set a car on fire on Peoria's Southside.A woman in the 2900 block of West Marquette Avenue ca...
A house fire late Saturday morning causes significant damage to the front of a home. Peoria fire crews responded to the call ...
Three suspects face federal counts of what's called, interference of commerce by robbery, following a Washington convenie...
One of the participants in the recent Don't Shoot "call-in" has been arrested.Peoria police report 30 year old ...
Peoria County's Administrator says recent events have unfolded that jeopardize the county's participation in the Cent...
Two brothers who allegedly led a cocaine and crack cocaine distribution ring in central Illinois were among 15 people named i...
A Pekin City Council member is arrested, accused of hitting a police officer with his car.Pekin police say Councilman John Ne...
A Washington man faces three counts of armed robbery in connection with a couple of holdups earlier this month. 23-year old B...
A Peoria teenager has died after suffering a skull fracture during an incident earlier this week on Peoria's southside. Jaqui...
An Illinois State Police trooper uncovers a large identity theft and credit card scam while making a routine traffic stop nea...
The Peoria County Sheriff's Department now has a base group of certified personal to conduct ground search and rescue. Sh...
Republican Congressman Aaron Schock of Peoria is the subject of an ethics complaint investigated by the House Ethics Committe...
A Peoria man convicted of stabbing two teenagers to death 35 years ago is in town today filing a motion with the Peoria Count...
Next month, Kevin Lyons will return to Peoria County's felony court as a circuit judge in one of the county's two fel...
A Bartonville woman will spend at least another month in jail for stealing a cab while drunk, speeding through Pekin and lead...
(AP) - A law enforcement official says Texas authorities have at least one person in custody in connection to the Lone Star C...
Washington police have taken a man into custody, charged with aggravated battery to a child. Washington Police Chief Jim Kuck...
A Peoria man has been indicted on charges of murder and attempted murder for the alleged stabbing death of one woman and seri...
A Peoria man is heading to prison after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, causing death....
A federal judge has rejected arguments that afriend turned aide of Rod Blagojevich deserved a measure ofleniency given to oth...
More information is released surrounding the death of a four-month old baby boy.Amarion Simmons died at the Children's Ho...
Illinois' Citizens Utility Board is zeroing in on cell phone scams.Patrick Deignan with CUB says fraudulent fees are popp...
An Amber Alert for a missing Stark County baby is cancelled.Authorities Thursday night said 3-week-old Mia Graci Thompson has...
One man is arrested, accused of robbing Bartonville Bank.30-year old Curtis Beeney was arrested during a traffic stop on Dirk...
For the first time in more than a century the Illinois House has expelled one of its members. Lawmakers voted 100-6 on Friday...
Gunfire and a high speed chase are being investigated by Peoria police. Officers responded to a call of shots fired just afte...
The weekend death of a 14-month old Peoria girl, suspected to be a victim of child abuse, is placing renewed interest on the ...
The reported missing woman whose body became entangled in a corn harvesting combine had died from multiple gunshot wounds. Th...
The prosecutor in Drew Peterson's murder trial now says his office will take another look at the disappearance of the for...
A Pekin man is in custody in connection with a late-night holdup.Pekin police say it happened around 11:10 Monday night in th...
A Peoria man was reportedly shot in the upper arm during a robbery attempt on his own front porch Saturday night. It occurred...
(From WEEK News 25) - Tazewell County authorities believe foul play may be involved in a fire that destroyed a Pekin house an...
(AP) Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama Monday afternoonto rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there aft...
Bradley University Police are looking for two suspects who reportedly robbed a student Wednesday morning.A female student say...
Among the usual plethora of new laws on the books statewide in the new year, the Peoria County States Attorney thinks one wil...
The victim of a shooting and robbery has died about three weeks following the incident. 45 year old Yahya Doud Mahmoud of Peo...
Peoria Police were called to the scene of an apparent double shooting on the southside during the mid-afternoon. Officers res...
The Peoria County Coroner says a Dunlap High School student found unresponsive in his bedroom late last month died of a heroi...
Peoria police are investigating a robbery at Heritage Bank on Harmon Highway. The incident occurred just before 9:30 Saturday...
A Peoria man has been indicted on charges of murdering of another man he was allegedly partying with earlier this month. 42 y...
A Eureka man is charged with throwing a Molotov cocktail in front of a police squad car. No one was injured in the incident S...
A Peoria couple will finally begin federal prison sentences for a Ponzi scheme they pulled off here in the late 1990's. N...
A nationwide manhunt for two Peoria men wanted for the murder of an East Peoria man ends in New Mexico.Deputies from the U.S....
An unidentified Bushnell woman is pronounced dead at the scene of a two vehicle head on collision near Hanna City. The accide...
(AP) - A U.S. Navy sailor from northern Illinois was among those killed by a gunman at a Colorado screening of the new Batman...
The Illinois Supreme Court has announced a new policy allowing cameras in trial courts on an experimental and limited basis. ...
1470 WMBD polled some people about the possibility of legalizing pot in Illinois, like two other states have done. Today, we ...
A Green Valley man acquitted of murder in Mason County is found hanged.35-year old Randy Deskin Jr. was found hanging from a ...
(AP) - A federal appeals court has struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois - the only state where carryin...
A suspect is still being sought in the case of the Red Brand Credit Union being robbed Monday. It was the second robbery ther...
A two vehicle crash in Bartonville Friday morning led to the death of a local man.Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll says...
It's believed to be murder-suicide case in Pekin.Three people found dead in a house at 1227 Highland Ave. about 9:00 p.m....
An underage drinking party in Pekin early New Years morning results in 25 arrests. Most of those apprehended were 19 or 20 ye...
Police don't believe foul play was a factor in the death of a man whose body was found near a parking lot outside Pekin H...
A Washington attorney wants to be a Tazewell County board member. 28-year old Andrew Rinehart is announcing his candidacy as ...
An IVC School District teacher accused of sexual relations with a high school student, is out on bond.22 year old Mossville i...
One person is in custody for a stabbing Friday night in the East Peoria Wal-Mart parking lot.26 year old Jasmine Stone of Peo...
(Photo courtesy of WEEK News 25)A man reported by sources to be out on parole after a murder conviction, is killed during a d...
A single vehicle rollover accident in East Peoria kills an Elgin man.The accident occurred about 5:30 Saturday morning at the...
More details have emerged about the death by gunshot of a Lake Camelot man a week ago. Two males and a female have been charg...
Peoria fire officials say two fires Saturday were intentionally set. First, a vacant house was on fire early Saturday morning...
Peoria Police are investigating the city's first homicide of the year.Heather Malcolm, 31, was shot to death inside the h...
Peoria police arrest four people on various weapons charges after two separate traffic stops. 19-year old Ian Gayles of Peori...
A new date has been set for the trial of Aunterrio Barney. He is the man facing multiple counts of first degree murder after ...
A registered sex offender seen talking with children in a Peoria School District 150 cafeteria Thursdayis arrested. The Journ...
A federal judge in Peoria has sentenced a Bellevue man to 20 years in prison for his role in a Tazewell County-based methamph...
(From WEEK News 25) - One day after video is released in the Florida fatal shooting of a 17 year-old teenager, more cries for...
An autopsy has not conclusively determined the death of a Chillicothe man. The body of 29-year old Patrick Nelson was found F...
A Canton grade school is placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure as police arrest what was described as a wanted fugiti...
Troubling allegations against a Mossvile teacher. Kayla Trueblood, 22, a teacher at Mossville Junior High and Elementary scho...
Pekin Police arrest three men in connection with the vandalism at the Lakeside Cemetery. WEEK News 25 reports 23-year old Tyl...
A federal grand jury has indicted a Peoria couple captured after spending 12 years on the run from accusations they bilked in...
A Peoria man is sentenced to 44 years in prison for his role in a 2011 armed robbery.Two people were shot during the hold up ...
A suspect is in custody within 20 minutes of a bank robbery at Central Illinois Bank at 4125 North Sheridan Wednesday afterno...
Few details are being released about two inmates who walked away from the Federal prison in Pekin. The Journal Star reports t...
A worker at the Caterpillar plant in South Milwaukee has died after he was injured in an accident at the facility.According t...
A suspect left with over $450 dollars in cash after committing an armed robbery of a Peoria business Friday evening. Poli...
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law a new requirement that all public schools have sexual assault and abuse and awareness prog...
A Mossville Elementary School teacher accused of having an improper relationship with ateenage boy is indicted. Kayla Trueblo...
A two-vehicle accident near Washington results in a Eureka man charged with driving under the influence. It happened just aft...
Pekin Police continue to search for a male suspect who robbed an USCO Gas Station late Saturday night. The incident occurred ...
A former Peoria Police officer is sentenced to 90 days in jail. John Couve pleaded guilty to attempted obustruction of justic...
(From WEEK News 25) - Two Woodford County deputies are back on the job after a state police investigation of alleged police b...
A Bradley men's basketball player is out of Peoria County Jail on$3,000 dollars bond.23 year old senior Will Egolf wi...
Attorneys general in 45 states, including Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madiagan, are asking a classified ads website to exp...
An early morning fire causes heavy damage to Peoria home. Fire crewswere called to a home in the 2300 block of Ligonier just ...
A federal jury in San Francisco convicts a Pekin businessman and two other men Thursday of operating a $26 million online...
A fight leads to a shooting and the arrest of one man. Witnesses tell police one man pulled a gun and started shooting during...
Bond is set at $2-million for a Peoria man charged in connection with a shooting death of a woman one year ago. At the ti...
Two Ohio high school football players have been found guilty of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that roiled a sma...
What a difference a month makes. Or, maybe it all depends on how the numbers are spun. The October crime stats are released.A...
An autopsy has not conclusively determined the death of a Chillicothe man. The body of 29-year old Patrick Nelson was found F...
Peoria Police are investigating a shooting at an apartment complex just south of downtown early Saturday morning. Officers ar...
(AP) - A man whose attack on a Peoria County Jail officer forced the victim to have hip-replacement surgery has been sentence...
It looks as if there willnot be homicide charges filed regarding the shooting death of 40 year old Derrick Williams over the ...
Prosecutors have dropped prostitution-related charges against a Peoria City Councilman. Dan Irving was charged with patronizi...
(AP) - A judge in western Illinois has sentenced a Colona man to 14 consecutive life sentences for molesting children.Justin ...
The last three men indicted last month for being part of the Bomb Squad street gang appear in federal court and plead not gui...
Three people are arrested during a drug raid in Eureka.The Multi-County Narcotics Group, Eureka police and the Woodford Count...
The Toulon woman accused of abandoning her baby is determined to be fit for trial in Stark County by a psychologist.19-year o...
A former Dunlap teacher accused of videotaping the underwear of middle school students learned his fate Wednesday.Gordon Mill...
A local man is reported missing and the Peoria County Sheriff's office is asking for help in finding him. The family of 58-ye...
Recently appointed Peoria County States Attorney Jerry Brady Thursday formally announced his intention to run for the office ...
Funeral services for fallen State Trooper Kyle Deatherage will be held Friday. The trooper was killed after being hit by a se...
The McLean County States Attorney said this week he would now use discretion when it comes to Illinois gun laws. This has his...
A December 17th trial is planned for the 14-year-old boy accused of firing a handgun at Normal Community High School.A McLean...
A juvenile boy who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for threatening to shoot people at Farmington High School, says he ne...
Lawyers for convicted murderer Johnnie Lee Savory filed an expansive motion to the Peoria County Circuit Clerk Wednesday to s...
"We are going to take out Bomb Squad".The words of Peoria County States Attorney Jerry Brady as authorities take ai...
A high school teacher at Manual Academy will make a first federal court appearance Monday.Amanda Ludwig, 28, is charged with ...
Heroin, marijuana, pills and a gun.That's what drug agents found Thursday inside an apartment in Peoria Heights.Agents wi...
A Peoria man faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly downloading child pornography. 22-year-old Brandon Brown is a bus d...
Three people are found dead of apparent gunshot wounds Sunday night in Pekin. They were found at a home at 1227 Highland St. ...
A judge has again delayed the second trial of a man accused of killing eight people in two states.Nicholas Sheley told Judge ...
The investigation of the death of a Morton woman in a St. Louis hotel ends in a hotel room in Creve Coeur.The bound and gagge...
If today's sharp questioning by the Supreme Court's conservative justices is any guide, the individual insurance requ...
The city of Peoria has been charged more than $100,000 in legal fees to defend a police officer accused of stalking anoth...
(AP) - Health officials in Illinois are investigating a second probable case of fungal meningitis tied to the use of a steroi...
The start of the trial for members of the gang known as The Bomb Squad is pushed back from later this month to March 18th.Ele...
There'snot a lot more the Peoria Police Chief can say about the Mossville Road murder investigation at this point.Chief S...
Two men are shot in the Taft Homes area. Officers responded to a report of four shots fired just after 2:15 Thursday morning....
(AP) - A sheriff's spokeswoman says charred human remains have been found in the burned-out cabin where a fugitive former...
The Toulon teen mom accused of leaving her baby on the side ofa county road will be examined by a mental health expert to see...
A home invasion late Thursday night left the occupant of the home with a head injury. Peoria Police say a suspect broke into ...
A Peoria woman is accused of starving her baby to death. 19-year old Astria Pollard turned herself in Wednesday. She faces tw...
Peoria County Circuit Judge Kevin Lyons moves from Civil Court to Felony Court. It comes a little over a year after being Peo...
88 people from 35 countries officially become naturalized citizens during a federal court ceremony. U-S Federal District Judg...
(From WEEK News 25) - Monday, the fourth and what police say is likely the final suspect in last week's fatal shooting wa...
A Chillicothe man is convicted of murdering his wife in front of his teenage daughter. WEEK News 25 reports 41-year-old Gordo...
A Brimfield man has been taken off of life support following injuries sustained after falling off the back of a pickup truck....
Peoria Police arrested Amanda M. Ludwig, a Manual Academy teacher, Friday night at the Manual basketball game.District 150 of...
A single gunshot to the head.The Peoria County Coroner says that's what killed a woman found inside her home on Mossville...
A little over two weeks after the murder of a woman inside her home on Mossville Road stunned the community, police have made...
(From WEEK News 25) - As the controversy around Kenny Mienders' allegations against the police department dies down, the Wash...
A Peoria County man is sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl.65-year-old Robert Kneer was...
The consequences of bullying and other hate crimes can be serious and lasting. That's the message Illinois Attorney General L...
Bond is set at $5 million dollars for the man accused of a double stabbing Friday, in which one victim died. 30 year old ...
It's the message law enforcement wants to send gang members and you. The Don't Shoot anti-gun violence campaign is un...
An accident involving a car and a flatbed truck in Wisconsin kills the truck driver and injures two Peoria men.Minocqua, Wisc...
A Federal Grand Jury has indicted a Peoria teacher for trying to have sex with a student.Enticement of a minor is the legal d...
Autopsies are complete on the victims of a suspected double murder-suicide in Pekin.The bodies of Ira Clemens,77, wife Barbar...
Two cars parked with only their parking lights on led Peoria County Sheriff's Deputies to what turned out to be a buy for...
An Elmwood man is being evaluated at Methodist Medical Center after a domestic dispute.Peoria County Sheriff's deputies w...
(From WEEK News 25) - Peoria Police are investigating a shooting that left a Manual High School student injured.Authorities s...
A judge in central Illinois has sentenced a Peoria man to 33 years in prison for fatally stabbing a friend he'd known sin...
A 15-year old boy is sentenced state juvenile prison for firing gunshots into the ceiling at Normal Community High School las...
The father of an 18 year old who died suddenly last month has been arrested by Peoria Police. 40 year old Darnell Hunter was ...
A driver and a passenger are taken to the hospital to be checked out late Friday night after their car crashed through the en...
A MAPLETON MAN IS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH IN HIS BED. 68 YEAR OLD JAMES COHEE OF WEST LAKE CAMELOT DRIVE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD A LI...
An East Peoria man dies of injuries suffered in an accident on I-74 in East Peoria two weeks ago.Forty-eight-year-old Jonatha...
Illinois State Police release more details about a rollover crash, which killed a Chicago area man last weekend. 23 year old ...
The city of Peoria will enforce a Parking Ban beginning at 8:00am. Primary routes are being treated before residential areas ...
"It really was a classic whodunit-type case."Peoria Police Chief Steve Settingsgaard talks more about the arrest of...
A tense situation for staff at Manual Academy turns out to be a case of mistaken identity.District 150 officials confirm a ma...
A Canton woman who served as a bookkeeper at Bartonville Grade School has been accused of stealing nearly $8,000 from the...
A Dunlap High School is student is dead after being found unresponsive in his bedroom. 16-year old Joshua Olt was found Sunda...
Peoria's new "Don't Shoot" anti-gun violence campaign is also online. A website dontshootpeoria.com has bee...
Two Peoria Police officers charged with felonies involving a summer accident and subsequent are both seeking jury trials. Off...
State regulators are cracking down on unlicensed sales of colored contact lenses, after a student suffers an eye injury from ...
If you think you can get away with illegally parking in a handicapped zone.....think again. Another thing to beware of is if ...
The Chief Judge of the 10th Circuit says one of his judges did not commit judicial misconduct.The issue involves a notation m...
The growing list for VIP visits to Eureka College, Ronald Reagan's alma mater, will grow again next Spring.Having an alum...
A Mossville teacher accused of having sexual contact with a 16-year boy has resigned.The Chillicothe Times-Bulletin reports t...
Peoria police and the Peoria County Coroner's office are investigating the death of a 14-month old girl. Harmoni Cole die...
Peoria's Police Chief salutes a new Peoria County Sheriff's Department effort.Steve Settingsgaard gives a big thumbs ...
(AP) Illinois is settling a federal securities-fraud charge that it misled investors about the health of its pension system. ...
Macomb Law enforcement evacuated homes near Western Illinois University's campus about 9 p.m. Wednesday, as a precaution ...
The victim of a one car accident overnight Wednesday has been identified.32 year old Christopher Williams of Peoria was prono...
A former property developer in Peoria has pleaded to money laundering and bank fraud charges.Shara Andrews, who was once know...
A three-judge panel has upheld the 2004 conviction of white supremacist Matthew Hale, formerly ofEast Peoria, for soliciting ...
A Peoria man is charged in connection with a shooting near Manual Academy this week.Markes Wilson, 18, appeared in Peoria Cou...
A Creve Coeur police officer has left his job after his arrest for allegedly attacking two Pekin high school students while o...
The Illinois House has rejected a measure that would require $1 million in liability insurance for people carrying concea...
A Manual Academy 9th grade arts teacher who is under federal indictment for enticing a minor into sex, has been officially di...
It's a big commitment,but the Peoria County Sheriff's Office is looking to add to its volunteer Mounted Auxiliary.&qu...
A Peoria real estate developer has been indicted on bank fraud and money laundering offenses. 38 year old Shara Andrews, form...
A Pekin manwas arrested Thursday after rolling his vehicle at Route 24 and Route 9, which closed down the roads for several h...
The picture of a 15-year old student using the restroom is on the phone of a Dunlap High School teacher charged with two felo...
Anexplosion at Enviro-Safe in Pekin injured four people, three of them seriously, Tuesday afternoon. Enviro-Safe bottles refr...
An eldery woman is dead following a head-on collision in Peoria last night. Peoria Police say the accident happened about11:1...
Peoria police are investigating a report of a man being shot. The victim arrived at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center by priva...