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Louisiana takes aim at Jim Crow-era jury law
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana is one of only two states in the country allowing a non-unanimous jury to convict a de…
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AP FACT CHECK: Facebook's reckoning, Trump's agitation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Facebook's days of reckoning in Washington and President Donald Trump's agitation with perceived polit…
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Police chief: Officers did nothing wrong in Starbucks arrest
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia's police commissioner on Saturday defended officers who arrested two black men at a Sta…
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Storm blasts central US with snow, ice and wind, killing 3
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A storm system stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes has buffeted the central U.S. with h…
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GOP devotes $250M to midterm strategy: Keep House majority
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican National Committee has committed $250 million to a midterm election strategy that has o…
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Chiefs rained out, set to play Rattlers in doubleheader on Sunday
PEORIA - The Peoria Chiefs game against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers was rained out Saturday at Dozer Park.The teams wi…
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Skating bulls keep Peoria hashers on the run Saturday
PEORIA HEIGHTS - Even through the rain, the bulls were seeing red.The Peoria Prowlers roller derby team donned skates an…
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Illinois can do better in career and technical education
PEORIA - Until eight years ago when he joined the national board of directors of SkillsUSA, Chris Arvin admits he didn't…
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Romaine lettuce linked to multi-state E. coli outbreak
Federal, state and local health officials are investigating a multi-state cluster of E. coli infections linked to choppe…
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Peoria gas station robbed at gunpoint
PEORIA - A Peoria gas station was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning.An employee told Peoria police at about 4 a.m.…
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Statehouse Insider: Rauner sets achievable budget goals
Sometimes the key to success is to set achievable goals. Or another way of putting it is to set the bar low enough you c…
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Illinois' population loss may take out 2 congressional seats
DECATUR - The mass of people leaving Illinois could soon add up to another loss - one of the state's 18 seats in Congres…
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Career, technical education students will put their skills to the test
PEORIA - If March is madness for high school and college basketball teams, April is tournament time for students in the …
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Recovering heroin addict shares his story
It was six years ago that Andrew Dewey, at age 45, decided to enter treatment in Jacksonville after years of balancing f…
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Luciano: Surprise! Your job stinks!
Reader share the things they've seen and endured on the job
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