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If you're average, you do THIS 4,000 times in your lifetime. What is it?
April 15, 2021 Q: If you're average, you do THIS 4,000 times in your lifetime. What is it? A: Pop a pimple
Nancy Flagg Apr 15, 2021 Caitlin Regan / CC

Peoria home damaged by garage fire
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria firefighters were called to the 800 block of E. Virginia Avenue just after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on reports of a working garage fire. Fire Battalion Chief Lore Baxter said it...
Julia Bradley Apr 15, 2021

16-year-old arrested for involvement in various Peoria burglaries
PEORIA, Ill. — A 16-year-old male has been arrested by Peoria Police for his involvement in various incidents throughout the area. The juvenile was seen just before 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in the 2...
Dalton Kemper Apr 14, 2021

Achieving Your Big Goals . . .
So the older I get, I think of days to come when retirement is ready to set in. That's a ways off but getting closer year by year. Wether short or long term goals who wouldn't want to save money. I kn...
Mike Stechman Apr 14, 2021 Sharon McCutcheon / Unsplash

Local COVID roundup 4/14: 2nd straight day case count rises by 300
PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties combined between Tuesday and Wednesday for 323 new cases of COVID-19. 192 of the cases are Peoria residents, 110 live in Tazewell, and the ...
Jeremy Scott Apr 14, 2021

Woman in PCSO custody for Wed. A.M. shooting at bar
***UPDATE 4/14/21 4 P.M. Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell said Frye is the victim’s daughter. The victim, he said, owns the bar. _________________________________ PEORIA, Ill. — A woman ...
Jeremy Scott Apr 14, 2021

Biden announces end of U.S. troop deployment to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden declared on Wednesday he plans to end the longest U.S. war and that it is “time for American troops to come home” from Afghanistan, as he looks to...
Jeremy Scott Apr 14, 2021

State COVID roundup 4/14: Hospitalizations still over 2,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Wednesday reported 2,076 Illinoisans were hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Tuesday night. Of those, 453 were in the ICU and 19...
Dalton Kemper Apr 14, 2021

New mobile hygiene unit to provide services to homeless population
PEORIA, Ill. — The Heart of Illinois United Way and Home for All Continuum Care are partnering with Phoenix Community Development Services (CDS) to provide a mobile hygiene unit that will suppor...
Dalton Kemper Apr 14, 2021

Ex-police officer who shot Black man to be charged with manslaughter: report
(Reuters) – A former police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a scuffle in a Minneapolis suburb that followed a routine traffic stop was expected to be charged with second-degree mansl...
Jeremy Scott Apr 14, 2021
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