WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday that he has deemed churches and other houses of worship "essential" and called on governors across the country to allow them to reopen this weekend despite the threat of spreading the coronavirus."Today I'm identifying houses of worship - churches, synagogues and mosques - as essential places that provide essential services," Trump said during a hastily arranged press conference at the White House, where he

PEORIA - A Peoria County man in his 50s in the latest cauaslty of the coronavirus, the health department announced on Friday.

GOODFIELD -- Jim Edwards stood by his blueprint for Goodfield businesses to emerge from their coronavirus-induced coma.

SPRING BAY -- A Peoria man took law-enforcement personnel on a soggy ride Thursday night.

PEORIA - The saying in show business is the show must go on. For those who prepare each year for Memorial Day, there's no show.