May 26, 1983, dawned as another glorious spring day that brought Peorians down to the river’s edge, but on that day many of them were over at the Peoria County Courthouse.
It was a nice day for a bike ride May 19, 1983, when two young men stopped their bikes on a small bridge over Funk’s Run Creek.
A Woodford County grand jury has indicted four people in connection to their presence at what is alleged to be an illegal drug-making facility.
Germantown Hill residents will be paying more in taxes to the Germantown Hills Fire Department next year.
A former El Paso man faces up to seven years in prison after a Woodford County jury convicted him last week of arson.
A Lowpoint woman was killed late Tuesday when her car veered off a rural Marshall County road and slammed into a concrete bridge.
The bodies of a teenage girl and her uncle, both of whom had been fatally shot, were found following a house fire early Wednesday.
A Woodford County official confirmed that there were fatalities after a house fire in the 900 block of Lake Road in Eureka early this morning.
A Peoria woman who was a passenger on a motorcycle was killed Friday night in an accident involving multiple vehicles on Illinois Route 116 at the southern edge of Germantown Hills.
If the Village Board decides to disband the Washburn Police Department, the Woodford County sheriff has a response: Don't look to him for much help.
Marcus D. Weddel of Minonk may be spending some time in court after he was indicted for the second time in as many months.
Eight burglaries — involving homes and cars — have occurred in recent days.
An East Peoria woman is dead, and a Metamora woman remains hospitalized, following a head-on collision in rural Kentucky on Friday.
Metamora Police Chief Mike Todd is one unhappy cop. Todd said major changes took place in his department on May 1, changes that came without any of his input.
Pekin is not known for the police paddy wagon pulling up to downtown establishments to haul away hookers on Court Street, and the Pekin Police Department intends to keep it that way.
When Woodford County Sheriff Jim Pierceall recently responded to questions concerning low speeding ticket numbers in Germantown Hills he made a statement that stung Metamora Police Chief Mike Todd.
Woodford County Sheriff Jim Pierceall would like to charge members of the Illinois Commerce Commission with obstruction of information. But, a spokesman for the ICC said the agency is not guilty of the charges of holding back information the sheriff levels.
The conviction of Steve Chromik, a former Metamora Township High School teacher and coach, has been upheld by the Illinois Appellate Court.
Woodford County Sheriff’s Deputy Angela Painter visited Springfield Nov. 17.
Painter, who serves as the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Deputy, was not alone.
A Eureka man found trapped underneath a truck was pronounced dead at 7:45 p.m. Nov. 2 at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria.
