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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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New social-emotional learning program sparks debate at District 150 board meeting
PEORIA - District 150's new social-emotional learning program was the hot topic at the School Board meeting Monday night…
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Chillicothe police arrest teen after report of gun at school
CHILLICOTHE - A Chillicothe teen was taken into custody Monday afternoon after a report of a handgun brought to school.T…
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Group seeks to sustain dredging the Illinois River
PEORIA - Finding a buyer for much-needed topsoil is the best hope for the sediment-heavy Illinois River.That's what a gr…
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IDNR kills carp to reclaim health of Eureka Lake
EUREKA - The first clear sign the fish poison was working Monday morning was a minnow-sized green sunfish turned belly-u…
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Illinois' long romance with trains endures
Editor's note: The weekly Illinois Bicentennial series is brought to you by the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors …
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Peoria council unlikely to vote on water company buyout until October
PEORIA - The clock is ticking on Peoria's opportunity to purchase the water company.Tuesday's Peoria City Council agenda…
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Amid long struggle to survive, Toulon's lone grocery goes dark
TOULON - Just 16 months after civic leaders and community members cheered the reopening of Super Valu, the Stark County …
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Man apparently shot at lunchtime last week in South Peoria, police say
PEORIA - A man reported someone in a moving automobile shot him last week in South Peoria, according to police. The vict…
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Peoria woman defrauded almost $2,000 in telephone scam, police say
PEORIA - A Peoria woman was the victim of an apparent telephone scam that cost her almost $2,000, according to authoriti…
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Gun stolen from vehicle parked near Central Peoria school
PEORIA - A handgun and an iPad were stolen last week from a vehicle parked about a block from Rolling Acres Middle Schoo…
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Nick in the AM: Vale Church is new to Peoria, but its tenets aren't
PEORIA - The Vale Church building sports a modern, orange-and-gray paint job. Inside is an audio-visual system that migh…
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Nick in the AM: Richwoods, Eureka alums make it a Center of the Universe Sunday
Good morning, troops. It's Monday, Sept. 24.Nick in the Morning and others often like to claim the Peoria area is the Ce…
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