Peoria County News

This week's capture of two escaped inmates from the Peoria County jail sheds light on a big problem facing residents in many older communities... unmonitored, vacant homes.

Peoria Police are investigating the city's 13th homicide of the year. Police say the fatal shooting happened just before 7 AM Saturday.

The victim of Thursday's house fire in Peoria may have died from health issues... not the fire.

Aaron Cook had been in the Peoria Country Jail awaiting his trial for four months, James Fuller for two years.

Meanwhile, the Sheriff's office will be losing 14 full time positions next year.

An autopsy is scheduled on Friday for a Peoria man killed in a house fire Thursday morning.

Peoria authorities have filed criminal charges against a brother- and sister-in-law accused of helping hide one of two escaped inmates from the Peoria County Jail earlier this week.

Area police are on a manhunt, searching for two men who escaped from the Peoria County Jail this morning.

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A document received from Lakeview Museum on October, 22, 2009, addressed to the Peoria County Administrator, indicated that only $14,244,543 has been collected out of $73,285,140 pledged to the Museum Project.

The owner of the ShopRite grocery store on Peoria's south side is behind bars. Vasant Patel appeared in Peoria County bonding court Friday on felony drug charges.

Peoria County's second H1N1 clinic is underway at Woodrow Wilson school in Peoria.

Hundreds of residents from Peoria and Marshall County lined up for an H1N1 Clinic underway in Chillicothe Monday evening.

Video Poker gambling in Illinois is now legal but, some counties are choosing not to participate.

A 17-year-old girl has been found dead in the basement of a Peoria house under what authorities are calling "suspicious" circumstances.

It is a program designed to give neighbors the chance to reclaim their streets from drug dealers.

Peoria County coroner confirmed 46-year old Mary Higgins of Peoria Heigths is the first person in Peoria County to died from the H1N1 virus.

Clayton Glasper, 45, who is listed as homeless, appeared in Peoria County Circuit Court on Monday, charged with burglary and criminal trespass to a residence, both felonies... Court records indicate he allegedly broke out a screen window and struggled with his wife.

A Hanna City man accused of killing his mothera 'ina 'law and injuring his estranged wife entered a not guilty plea in Peoria County Court Thursday.

In our area there are three confirmed deaths related to the H1N1 virus. News of the latest death came today from Peoria City/County Health officials.