LOS ANGELES (AP) - In less than 16 years, the UFC has grown from a money-losing company in a widely reviled sport into a global entertainment property worth $4 billion.While the UFC and its new owners figure out the company's next steps, Lorenzo and Frank...

PEORIA - It might be tough to find a part-time job that pays at least $50,000 a year. Then again, being mayor of Peoria isn't quite like being a burger bagger, no insult intended.Beginning in May 2017, the mayor's salary is to increase by 2 percent annual...

PEORIA -- Two daily nonstop flights to Charlotte, N.C., from the Gen. Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport will begin Nov. 4.The flights to Charlotte, the biggest city in the Carolinas, will be offered by American Airlines, the airport said last ...

PEORIA - A man was killed Monday afternoon when a porch awning that he was working on collapsed at a North Valley home, authorities said.The 26-year-old man was moving one of the awning's support posts at a family member's home at 602 Phelps St. when it c...

PEORIA - A $12 million project added to both the attractiveness and utility of UnityPoint Health-Methodist's Downtown location.The Methodist campus has been altered and augmented over the decades to produce buildings that, while still valuable for serving...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) - A black man who was shot and wounded by police in central Illinois on Monday was armed with a BB gun that resembled a real handgun, according to police.Authorities in Decatur said officers responded to reports of a man armed with a gu...

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City patient was infected with bacteria that had a special type of resistance to antibiotics last year, the earliest known case in the U.S. of bacteria that could lead to a superbug impervious to medications.The bacteria were fo...

Jeremiah Tilmon, a 6-foot-10, 235-pound former East St. Louis center, announced on his Twitter account Monday that he had made a verbal commitment to the University of Illinois."After a long recruiting process and much thought ... I'm blessed to announce...

LACON - Former Sparland Village Clerk Margaret "Marg" Murry was given a definite date Monday for a bench trial early next year on cyberstalking charges.A judge set Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 for a trial that is expected to take about a day and a half on the two...

BAGHDAD (AP) - The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday. The new Am...