fatal crash

The Peoria County coroner’s office is investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash in Bartonville.

Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said in a social media post that emergency crews were called to Illinois Route 29 and Knox Street at about 7:15 a.m. for a reported crash with serious injuries.

A 15-year-old motorcycle racer from Colorado who was injured in a crash during an event nearly two weeks ago in Bartonville has died, prompting an investigation by the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office.

The second suspect in last month’s early morning shooting and fleeing incident on the South Side that left two men dead has been released from the hospital and charged with first-degree murder.

A Peoria man charged in the deaths of two men during a string of criminal violence early Saturday will remain in custody until his trial begins.

A 20-year-old Peoria man has been arrested for murder and other charges stemming from a fatal shooting and crash last weekend on the city’s South Side.

Two people are dead, another person is wounded, and two suspects are in the hospital after a shooting led to a car chase and crash overnight Saturday on Peoria's South Side.

Fulton County Coroner Austin Rhodes said Todd Brown, 54, of Hanna City, was killed Friday afternoon after the semi tractor-trailer he was driving drove off the northbound lanes of Illinois Route 97.

The alleged driver of a vehicle that fled a traffic stop in Peoria’s East Bluff neighborhood and was later involved in a collision with another vehicle that claimed the life of a teen passenger is now in custody at the Peoria County Jail.

A 17-year-old girl died early Thursday after the vehicle she was in was struck by another vehicle that fled from a traffic stop in Peoria’s East Bluff neighborhood.