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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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Verne Troyer, Mini-Me from 'Austin Powers' films, has died
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Verne Troyer, who played Dr. Evil's small, silent sidekick "Mini-Me" in the "Austin Po…
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AP Analysis: Good and bad news in NKorea's latest nuke offer
TOKYO (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has finally broken his silence on what he plans to bring to the table durin…
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Trump considering pardon for late boxer Jack Johnson
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump says he's considering a posthumous pardon for boxing's first black h…
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Trump says he doesn't think personal lawyer will 'flip'
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doesn't expect Michael Cohen, his longtime per…
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Laughter, tears as former first lady Barbara Bush remembered
HOUSTON (AP) - Barbara Bush was remembered as the "first lady of the Greatest Generation" during a funeral Sat…
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Government consolidation efforts gain traction in General Assembly
Before his election to the Illinois House in 2012, state Rep. Sam Yingling was the supervisor of his local township in c…
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Democrats scrambling to derail fake news attacks in 2018 races
WASHINGTON, D.C. - When J.B. Pritzker decided to run for Illinois governor, he and campaign manager Anne Caprara talked …
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Tony's journey: From psych unit to Zeller to independence
PEORIA - Tony Greene lost control and his father didn't know what to do."I wouldn't say I was a danger to any person or …
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Brighter Days Ahead home to brighter days right now
PEORIA - For Donna Dalrymple, 52, the memories are fresh, painful and impossible to completely escape.Homeless in Madiso…
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State of mental health care in Peoria continues to evolve
From a Bartonville insane asylum to the Zeller Mental Health Center to the Brighter Days Ahead drop-in clinic, treatment…
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