PEORIA -- Caterpillar Inc. appears to have a serious case of Pac-Man fever, 40 years after it first struck.

WEST PEORIA -- An employee of a West Peoria doughnut shop was accused of aggravated battery Monday after a outdoor confrontation sent a customer to the hospital.

PEORIA - Two Peoria County Sheriff's deputies were fired Tuesday because of allegations of theft against each of them.

PEORIA -- Ten more people have died, health officials said, after contracting the COVID-19 virus, pushing this month's total to over 40.Tazewell and Woodford Counties both suffered four deaths each while Peoria County, the area's most populous and the one that normally leads the way, had two.

EAST PEORIA - Rich Brodrick is the new interim chief of the East Peoria Police Department following last week's sudden and unexplained resignation of Police Chief Steve Roegge.