PEORIA - A man showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound Thursday night, Peoria police said.

Good morning, troops. It's Thursday, May 2.The Ray House in Rushville played host to Abraham Lincoln during his 1858 U.S. Senate campaign.

PEORIA - A 54-year-old Chillicothe man alleges in a federal lawsuit that an Illinois Secretary of State Police officer used excessive force when arresting him last summer and then lied about it.

PEORIA - The long-vacant site of various Vonachen restaurants next to Junction City Shopping Center soon might be filled.

PEORIA - Looks like apologies are in order to a pair of birds. Yesterday, this space spotlighted a big nest atop the McClugage Bridge.

There's the show in which the protagonist throws a rock at the head of a young woman, follows her to a beach house and shoots her dead.

LOS ANGELES - Actor Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" films, has died.