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Peoria City Manager Patrick Urich discusses the budget outlook and process, as well as strategic planning, in his latest regular monthly interview with WCBU.
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A Peoria County jury took 90 minutes on Wednesday to convict 29-year-old Tahir Goodman of killing J'Naysia Hobbs and setting her body on fire in an attempt to cover up the murder.
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A man was found down on the scene with life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly after.
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The first day of the pretrial fairness act saw only two hearings come before Peoria County Circuit Court Judge Sean Donahue. In both instances, the State’s Attorney’s office filed petitions seeking to have the defendant detained until trial.
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The Fulton County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest in an August murder investigation.
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A 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday for the August murder of 17-year-old Dahvie Brown-Bay.
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Authorities are identifying a man who died last Friday after he was struck by a vehicle in East Peoria.
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Mayor Rita Ali says she believes the late-summer spike in violence is part of a phenomenon happening across the country, and that Peoria is a safe city. In this month's regular conversation with WCBU, Ali talks about responding to the recent surge of violent crime, and why Peoria is seeing a wave of incidents in late summer.
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Harwood says 33-year-old Erick Luncsford was found unresponsive, not breathing, and with no pulse. He was pronounced dead in his cell.
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One man was injured and another was arrested after a Saturday night shooting at Mike's Tavern in West Peoria.
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The Illinois State Police are investigating the death of an inmate at the Peoria County Jail Saturday.
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Two people were injured after a hit-and-run accident Saturday morning in the 1400 block of Southwest Jefferson Avenue.