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Monday, April 23, 2018
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Alleged shooter is well known to Tazewell County Sheriff's Office
PEKIN - Police reports and the recollections of a former acquaintance paint a disturbing picture about Travis Reinking, …
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Illinois rivers helped feed economic growth in state
During the first century of the state's history, the natural habitats along the Illinois River helped spur fishing indus…
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Word on the Street: Keeping county officials' salary frozen makes sense
Most people in Peoria County would be happy to get a six-figure paycheck.At least, that's our guess in a jurisdiction wh…
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Drainage project to block some of Peoria airport's entrance road
PEORIA - Additional portions of the entrance road to the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport, and a secti…
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Courts and state made Peoria County Jail a top mental health center
Second of two partsPEORIA - The questions are standard today.Do you take any medications?Do you feel like hurting yourse…
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Peoria Public Schools board wades into River Trail Apartments controversy
PEORIA - With an eye on revenues lost to tax-increment financing, Peoria Public Schools is publicly wading into the cont…
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Tazewell sheriff urges public to 'be on alert' for Travis Reinking
PEKIN - The Morton man authorities believe killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House could be on his way back to ce…
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Fire destroys house and garage in south Chillicothe
CHILLICOTHE - A house fire in the 14200 block of North Edgewater Drive burned Sunday afternoon after a car backfired in …
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Peoria County Jail Booking Sheet for April 22, 2018
Bookings at the Peoria County Jail over the past 24 hours through 7 a.m.
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Morton man sought in quadruple homicide at Tennessee Waffle House
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Authorities say a nearly naked gunman from Morton, wearing only a green jacket and brandishing an ass…
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Chiefs get grand slam from Denton, homer from Montero, to bury Rattlers, 7-1
PEORIA - The Peoria Chiefs powered up to beat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, 7-1, on Saturday in a Midwest League game b…
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Peoria Recovery Project reaches toward addiction solutions
PEORIA - After her son died from opioid overdose in 2016, Sharon Harkless has been on a mission to turn her pain into pr…
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Texas 8th-graders asked to list positives of slavery
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A San Antonio charter school has apologized after a teacher asked students in an eighth-grade America…
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New lynching memorial offers chance to remember, heal
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Elmore Bolling defied the odds against black men and built several successful businesses during …
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Pulitzer honoree is latest to win after leaving journalism
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Ryan Kelly won a Pulitzer Prize this week for his photo of a car plowing into protesters at a white…
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