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Peoria testing prescription drug disposal program

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:09:32 -0400

PEORIA HEIGHTS, Illinois - Authorities in Peoria County are testing a program to allow residents to safely dispose of old prescription drugs.

Man accused of killing 5 in Illinois takes stand

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:10:29 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - A 34-year-old man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron took the witness stand Friday, wiping away tears as he painted a horrifying picture of the murder scene.

Man accused of killing 5 in Illinois takes stand

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:01:12 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - A man accused of killing five members of a central Illinois family with a tire iron has taken the witness stand to speak directly to jurors.

SPOTLIGHT: Kitchen Cooked a historic potato chip

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:11:20 -0400

FARMINGTON, Illinois - Cooked to the 1930s' made-in-Flossie-Howard's-cast-iron-kettle recipe, the original Kitchen Cooked Potato Chips are be a cult item.

Legislation would name highway after Ray LaHood

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:36:39 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - U.S. Transportation Secretary and Illinois native Ray LaHood could get his name on a stretch of Interstate 74 running through his hometown of Peoria.

Private group takes ownership of Peoria-area park

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:35:10 -0400

EDWARDS, Illinois - A nonprofit group has taken over the management of Wildlife Prairie State Park near Peoria.

Ill. homeless man accused of kidnapping boy, 10

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:29:05 -0400

EAST PEORIA, Illinois - A man described by authorities as homeless and a sex offender is accused of restraining a 10-year-old boy in central Illinois before witnesses got police to intervene.

Peoria man convicted in East Peoria slaying

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:22:06 -0400

PEKIN, Illinois - Jurors in Pekin have convicted a Peoria man of shooting a man to death in East Peoria last June.

Defense: Beason suspect walked in on killings

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:01:36 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - An attorney for a man accused of slaying five members of an Illinois family says someone else is to blame and that his client walked in on the scene of slaughter and had to fight off the killer.

Firefighters find SUV, body in Illinois River

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:26:31 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - Authorities searching the flood-swollen Illinois river in Peoria have found an SUV with a man's body inside.

Chief group wants to resurrect mascot at U of I

Tue, 07 May 2013 12:49:12 -0400

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois - A group of University of Illinois graduates who in the past portrayed Chief Illiniwek is pitching a plan to bring back the former mascot. But the top official at the school says she won't back the idea, and the leader of the tribe that would need to agree says that means he can't support it, either.

Ex-Marine who survived Iraq bombing died of drugs

Sat, 04 May 2013 15:44:39 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - A former Marine from Illinois who was badly disfigured by a suicide bombing in Iraq died of a combination of heroin and alcohol intoxication, a coroner's inquest determined.

Parker: Planned Parenthood targets black women

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:18:29 -0400

In 1854, Abraham Lincoln confronted America's first "pro-choice" U.S. senator, Stephen Douglas of Illinois, in a speech in Peoria. - "Choice" then was about slavery, not abortion.

Flood damage checks starting in central Ill. town

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:44:03 -0400

CHILLICOTHE, Illinois - Peoria County officials will start assessing the more than 400 homes in Chillicothe that were damaged by last month's flooding.

No answers so far for E. Peoria landslide homes

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:46:06 -0400

EAST PEORIA, Illinois - City leaders in East Peoria don't have many answers so far for people forced out of three homes by a landslide.

Group names Illinois' 10 most endangered places

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:29:57 -0400

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - An 1890s orphanage for black children, a theater that thrived in Peoria's early 20th century heyday and the Chicago home of late blues legend Muddy Waters were named Tuesday to the 10 most endangered historic places in Illinois.

Toddler is youngest to ever get lab-made windpipe

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:44:16 -0400

CHICAGO - A 2-year-old girl born without a windpipe now has a new one grown from her own stem cells, the youngest patient in the world to benefit from the experimental treatment.

Playing with Caterpillars - machines, not insects

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:28:19 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - Here's a place where the word caterpillar does not refer to fuzzy little insects. The new Caterpillar Visitors Center is all about the roaring black-and-yellow machines that dig and lift at massive construction and mining sites.

Judge: Prospective jurors can't see graphic photos

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:30:09 -0400

PEORIA, Illinois - A judge has ruled prospective jurors cannot be shown graphic photos of the victims in the killings of a central Illinois family, but can hear descriptions of them.