PRINCEVILLE - A gas station employee took more than $12,000 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets, the business' owner told police.

PEORIA - Peoria Public Schools chose not to renew its contract with the Peoria Police Department to provide a police-certified school resource officers in each of they city's three high schools.

PEORIA -- A fire caused "significant damage" to a North Peoria medical building on Thursday.

PEKIN -- It's been out with the old and in with the new at Pekin Community High School's Memorial Stadium since the end of the football season last fall.

SPRINGFIELD - A new report from an Illinois think tank says the state was ill-prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily because of a pre-existing shortage of nurses, and that the pandemic has left state even more vulnerable in the event of another public health crisis.