Rome News

Thus the Roman Catholic Church can only claim to be 945 years old ... not 2000 as the archbishop claims.

ST. CHARLES – Adults trying to get information about suicide prevention to teens is like sending a message in Old French to Martians who speak Egyptian.

Residents living near Old Galena Road in Peoria County question why this paved entrance/exit recently appeared leading into a farm field owned by a development group that wants to build a gravel pit there.

Now that spring is back we don't just have sunshine and warm weather. We're also stuck with our annual parade of roadside litterbugs, those folks who can't summon the will to keep their trash inside the car and feel they just have to decorate the shoulder and roadside undergrowth with it.

A hanging furnace is a good thing. So are a pair of hip waders. With the Illinois River more than 9 feet above flood stage, a sense of humor is priceless.

When police arrested two Romanians for the rape of an Italian teenager in Rome, Il Giornale, a paper owned by the family of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, reported: "The Romanian beasts have been caught." ...

The Peoria Red Cross plans to provide support for residents and business owners impacted along the flood bank.

A man found dead by friends Sunday morning on a couch in a North Valley apartment suffered from sleep apnea and was on various medications, his fiancee said.