PEORIA — Between the three of them, count four jobs, a science internship, a prestigious six-week music camp and enough extracurricular and outside...

HOLLIS TOWNSHIP — It’s been a year of firsts for Matt Shannon.He finished No. 1 in his graduation class at Hollis Grade School in the...

Bookings at the Peoria County Jail over the past 24 hours through 7 a.m....

Bookings at the Peoria County Jail over the past 24 hours through 7 a.m. Peoria County Booking Sheet 6/30/2016 by Journal Star police documents ]]>Paragraph body

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City police are looking for a man who stuffed a bag of feces down a woman's pants as she walked in Manhattan.Police say the bizarre incident occurred at 6 p.m. Monday on East 74th Street near First Avenue.The man allegedly grabbed...

PEORIA - A van struck a house late Wednesday night in the 2900 block of North Wisconsin Avenue after a chase that began with a ShotSpotter report, police said.The driver, Fred Bennett, Jr., 18, was arrested after running a short distance from the scene, a...

Bookings at the Peoria County Jail over the past 24 hours through 7 a.m. Peoria County Jail Booking Sheet by Journal Star police documents ]]>Paragraph body

MCHENRY, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago gun shop is raffling a semi-automatic weapon to benefit victims of the nightclub shooting in Orlando.Second Amendment Sports in McHenry, Illinois, is selling tickets for $5 to win an AR-15 rifle similar to the one g...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A grizzly bear attacked and killed a 38-year-old mountain biker as he was riding along a trail just outside Glacier National Park, Montana authorities said.Brad Treat and another rider were in the Halfmoon Lakes area of the Flathead N...

ISTANBUL (AP) - The three suicide bombers who attacked Istanbul airport were a Russian, an Uzbek and a Kyrgyz, a senior Turkish official said Thursday, hours after police carried out sweeping raids across the city looking for Islamic State suspects. Tuesd...