PEORIA - A man who two U.S. Marshals were trying to arrest on a warrant was pronounced dead early Wednesday morning.

An average of 26,300 vehicles per day drive across the small bridge on Main Street in East Peoria that crosses over Farm Creek.

DAVENPORT, IOWA - A Peoria couple made their first federal court appearance for their suspected roles in a Galesburg bank robbery.

Agricultural advocates Diane Rosenberg, John Ikerd and Karen Hudson chat with the Journal Star's Steve Tarter about factory farming and socially responsible agriculture, and highlight the free screening of the documentary "Right to Harm" tonight at the Peoria Riverfront Museum Giant Screen Theater.

SPRINGFIELD - The issue of abortion needs to be treated as less of a "political football" so individuals on both sides of the debate can have "fundamental and ideological discussions," Sen.