It’s the late 1800s, somewhere in the wilderness of the Congo. A British Army squadron led by Captain Rom (Christoph Waltz) is on an expedition to...

PEORIA — In a time frame of 10 to 15 minutes, Kurt Hoppe needed to travel from Great Harvest Bread Company in North Peoria to the Central...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana man killed by a bear near Glacier National Park was intimately familiar with both the beauty and the danger of the...

Bookings at the Peoria County Jail over the past 24 hours through 7 a.m. Peoria County Booking Sheet 7/1/2016 by Journal Star police documents ]]>

It is impossible to have world peace by starting a new war.Recently, 192 countries signed a pledge to promote climate change. If those 192 countries signed a pledge not to start a new war, could it start a new path to world peace? Would it send a strong s...

The introduction of the flashing yellow (yield) turn arrow has changed the driving landscape. I recall reading that various proposals were considered and tested thoroughly before selection.Unfortunately, lane striping and the width of any raised medians, ...

World War II, often remembered as a good war, was knowingly written of by an early veteran, novelist James Jones. Years later he would be asked to visit and pen some images of Vietnam during a cease-fire in a most unpopular war.Beloved correspondent Ernie...

I had to write this after the recent violence in Orlando.In the early 1940s, I lived in a small town of 10,000. We had a gentleman working at one of our local banks who was homosexual. Everyone knew but no one shunned him. He was treated as a regular citi...

"I will make this country great again" is a favorite slogan of Donald Trump.He has a penchant, which many find deplorable, for name-calling -- "Bimbo" for Megyn Kelly of Fox News, "Crooked Hillary" for Hillary Clinton, "Lying Ted" for Sen. Ted Cru...

It was a beautiful summer afternoon when my young brother and I were riding bikes around my neighborhood. Suddenly a utility truck of some sort passed by us, and I was instantly assaulted with a noxious odor and taste in my mouth.We were caught off guard ...