PEORIA -- A deputy with the Peoria County Sheriff's Department is facing official misconduct and theft charges.

PEORIA - The cross country state finals at Detweiller Park were the Peoria area's biggest casualty in the Illinois High School Association's decision Wednesday to cancel state championships for the four competing fall sports.

LOWPOINT -- A Germantown Hills man was killed last weekend when his motorcycle ran off a Woodford County road, according to authorities.

While the matter did not come to a vote on Monday's agenda, the Pekin City Council and city staff discussed whether to add body cameras for police officers.

The name of the main airport in Peoria is long, but one word usually tends to throw people. Gen.