Influenza season is in full swing, and a current strain of it is tough on children, according to reports.

Good morning, troops. It's Thursday, Jan. 16. Old-school television viewers in the Peoria area will need to make a new-school adjustment Friday.

Each March since 1996, Carver Arena in Peoria has played host to the high school boys basketball state finals.

TREMONT - Jimmy Hamdricks will go from homeless to living high on the hog.

WASHINGTON - The Biagini family owns the city's first legal backyard chickens.