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Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Economos, Hagaman, Smith win annual Rivermen team awards
PEORIA - The Peoria Rivermen shared good food and good company with their front office and booster club Wednesday in the…
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Teen sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting last summer
PEORIA - A 17-year-old Peorian was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for shooting another person when he was 16.…
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Tazewell courts collect $55,000 in late fines
PEKIN - Tax return season turned out as the right time for Tazewell County to offer a deal to defendants who've been slo…
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JB Pritzker readies for general election campaign with similar themes
The message JB Pritzker used to win a 19-point victory in his primary campaign will be the same one he focuses on in th…
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Editorial: The election in review
The election stage for November is now set in Illinois, with two very rich guys from Chicago squaring off for the honor …
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Full-day kindergarten will be district-wide in Morton
MORTON - Full-day kindergarten will be offered as an option for students at all four Morton School District elementary s…
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Jamanni "Jay" Gibson, soldier from West Peoria, dies in boating incident in Washington state
WEST PEORIA - The U.S. Army is investigating the deaths of two soldiers, including Pvt. Jamanni "Jay" Gibson of West Peo…
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Midland hires outside food service management firm
LACON - The Midland School Board decided Monday to contract with a suburban Chicago company to manage food services at t…
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Morton library will close for a 'refresh' project
MORTON - Morton Public Library will close Friday for a "refresh."
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Garry Moore to retire from Channel 25 in April
EAST PEORIA - Garry Moore will no longer be providing wake-up calls for central Illinois TV viewers after April 13. That…
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Bullet but no threat found at Peoria High School
PEORIA - A bullet was found in a Peoria High School classroom Wednesday morning, but school administrators said no threa…
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Luciano: In Gary Matthews' promises, maybe we should've seen the truth
Wow. Allegations of incompetence and mismanagement with the Pere Marquette projects. Who'da thunk...
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800 students learn CPR at Limestone High School Wednesday
BARTONVILLE - It wasn't easy finding more than 80 CPR dummies to train everyone at Limestone Community High School in ha…
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Rivermen sign college defenseman Alec Brandrup
PEORIA - The Peoria Rivermen signed college defenseman Alec Brandrup on Wednesday on an amateur tryout deal.He was init…
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Pekin man suspected in four-week string of Peoria burglaries
PEORIA - A Pekin man was arrested by Peoria police for allegedly breaking into several businesses in Downtown Peoria and…
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