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Before coming to Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, Austin Pettijohn dressed appropriately — checkered flag shorts and an Indiana Pacers jersey. For the 32-year-old from nearby ...

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Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV ...

He was being treated at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria ... place and cannot look up or down. He is not paralyzed, though, nor were his hips broken. "He'll walk again," Phillips vowed.

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North of Pierre, South Dakota, you will find Plainview school, a rustic one-room school house that brought accessible education to the Peoria township. Such schoolhouses helped shape rural students.

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PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS: Clouds will increase this evening and continue overnight, with lows around 50°. Shower chances look to hold off until later Tuesday afternoon, possibly waiting ...

Here are the Peoria-area Class 1A and 2A baseball teams that advanced from the Illinois High School Association regional title games on Saturday.