Peoria County News

A Peoria Heights restaurant owner facing bad charges has left the country while out on bail, and authorities are not sure just how it happened.

The village is another step closer to creating its first tax-increment financing district to help fund the redevelopment of the vacant Cohen's Furniture warehouse and surrounding area.

Fireworks won't be the only flashing colors seen in the sky this Independence Day weekend.

A Peoria Heights businessman, facing a batch of felony fraud charges for allegedly writing more than $35,000 in bad checks, fled the country Thursday night after he was released from jail, officials said.

Peoria police officers could soon take a shot at a new device that could help protect themselves and others.

Rumors and facts collided last week in a discussion about crime in North Peoria.

A North Valley man died this morning from injuries, including a broken jaw, he suffered more than a month ago during a dispute with a neighbor.

An alleged drunken driver was flown to a Peoria hospital on Saturday night after flipping his sport utility vehicle.

The owner of a recently opened restaurant and bar in the Heritage Square shopping center was arrested Monday after allegedly writing more than $30,000 worth of bad checks.

Adrenaline Teen Dance Club on Farmington Road is a safe place for teens to hang, but the club stays open 30 minutes past curfew.

A woman arrested in connection with a Peoria shooting Tuesday has been released.

Volunteers travel across the country to help flood victims From a high-tech mobile kitchen comes a massive humanitarian effort -- thousands of hot homemade meals cooked, packaged and delivered to flood victims ...

Saying there is no one to help families in need, Peoria County State's Attorney Kevin Lyons announced Thursday he would ask a local judge to allow him to open the shuttered doors of American Mausoleum.

The latest fight between two brothers who frequently got into arguments ended when one of them allegedly killed the other Tuesday afternoon at their rural Henry home site, Marshall County authorities said.

Peoria County States Attorney Kevin Lyons is planning to intervene in the "legal quagmire" involved the bankruptcy of the American Mausoleum.

A family has filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Peoria alleging a now retired pastor molested their young son at a Normal church more than a decade ago.

WMBD/WYZZ PEORIA CO. -The underage night club Adrenaline Rush opens Friday on Farmington Road.

A Peoria man pleaded guilty Wednesday to holding up a South Peoria restaurant on Christmas Day.

The 500 block of Main Street, the heart of Peoria's nightlife, will get spruced up as part of renovations expected by new owners.

Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll says Kevin Fay was pronounced dead just after 3 p.m. Tuesday at a Peoria hospital.