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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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Police urge Peoria churches to be vigilant on safety
PEORIA - When a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last November, witnesses in…
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Washington high school graduation moving to Renaissance Coliseum
WASHINGTON - Bradley University's 4,200-seat Renaissance Coliseum will be the site of Washington Community High School's…
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Peoria area MEG board agrees to continue with covert drug unit
PEORIA - After nearly an hour of closed-door discussions Tuesday, the undercover drug unit P-MEG will continue, says its…
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Rauner signs bill to focus on needs of female prison inmates
LINCOLN - Like many of her cellmates, Janene Patton entered Illinois' prison system with problems that lingered beneath …
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Double A's Pizza in Peoria moving to former Tilted Kilt, First & Home location
PEORIA - A longtime Peoria pizza place will move across the highway later this year.Double A's Pizza will leave its loca…
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Delavan man sentenced to prison for knife in jail
PEKIN - A Delavan man will serve a six-year prison term for making a knife in Tazewell County's jail, with alleged inten…
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Peoria Public Schools may finally sell old Greeley School
PEORIA - The old Greeley School may finally be off the auction block.Artist Jonathon Romain submitted the only bid, $30,…
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Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F
MOSCOW (AP) - Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hi…
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LISTEN: About that I-74 rivalry...
Our Valley Views special edition focuses on Round 1 of the Bradley-Illinois State rivalry,...
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Teen is Peoria's latest homicide victim; suspect turns himself in
PEORIA - A 19-year-old Peoria man was shot and killed Monday evening by a single gunshot wound to the head, the Peoria C…
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Peoria County Jail Booking Sheet for Jan. 16, 2017
Bookings at the Peoria County Jail over the past 24 hours through 7 a.m.
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El Paso woman, 29, killed in collision with semi-tractor trailer
A Woodford County woman was killed Monday night in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 39 near Hudson.Kacee L. Vassallo, 2…
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Morton police expenses for 2017 community events total nearly $17,000
MORTON - Police overtime and auxiliary payroll expenses totaled $16,919 for 14 community events in 2017, Morton Police C…
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MLK marchers are 'unstoppable'
PEORIA - While most Peorians spent the holiday shielding themselves from the cold when the temperature dropped to 10 deg…
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Two parolees charged with gun crimes after Pekin incident
PEKIN - Two men recently released from prison likely will return if they're convicted of charges they pointed a handgun …
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