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The half a century old murder case that convicted a black man of killing a sheriff’s deputy has been sent back to Peoria County.The appellate court in…

Opioid addiction is a growing problem in Illinois. And people have the chance to learn more during a free webinar on Thursday.The University of Illinois…

CHICAGO (AP) - A law passed last year requires every judicial circuit in Illinois to have a veterans treatment court starting Jan. 1.The courts allow…

Attorneys for former Illinois congressman Aaron Schock say they have reached an agreement with federal prosecutors on documents currently under review by…

The City of Peoria is paying $125,000 to a man who created a parody Twitter account of the city’s mayor. The payment settles a federal lawsuit involving…

Unsealed court records indicate that former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock was issued a federal grand jury subpoena seeking campaign and congressional…

A state appellate court has ordered a Peoria judge to review whether a man was fit to stand trial for the killing of a woman in 2010. 45 year-old Edjuan…

An Illinois lawmaker wants to ticket people possessing marijuana...instead of charging them with a misdemeanor that could trigger jail time.…

DNA has helped exonerate more than 300 people in the US. Among the most recent was Christopher Abernathy, freed last week from a northern Illinois prison…

Two brothers who owned a gas station in Peoria pled guilty to more than $6 million in tax fraud. Shaher and Mohammad Mizyed owned the Tira Oil gas station…