Peoria County Circuit Court

A Peoria man convicted of second-degree murder for a fatal 2023 shooting in Limestone Township was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday during a hearing in Peoria County Circuit Court, according to a media release from the Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office.

A former neurosurgery resident in Peoria received a five-year prison sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to unauthorized videotaping.

A Peoria County jury has convicted a 19-year-old man of second-degree murder in the 2023 fatal shooting outside a Peoria liquor store.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding intended for Peoria’s now defunct Cure Violence program might be redirected into a different ongoing program aimed at reducing crime.

A detention hearing for Brian Childers on charges in Tazewell County is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

A little more than a week after implementation of no-cash bail in Illinois, Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos says the new process is running mostly as expected. She credits that to attorneys, judges and other officials having more than a year to prepare for implementation.

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.

A Peoria County grand jury indictment states the charge is having sex with someone at least 13 years of age, but younger than 18, while the defendant was the alleged victim's work supervisor.

A Peoria woman was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday, after prosecutors said she struck and killed a man on an electric bike while she was driving under the influence of cannabis.

Peoria County Circuit Judge John Vespa on Thursday granted the prosecution's motion seeking higher bonds against Stephanie Jones and Brandon Walker.