PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — As news spread about the news that an American had been chosen to be the new pope, a first in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, reaction locally was positive ...

UPDATE (3:53 p.m.) — A 22-year-old motorcyclist is dead after a three-vehicle crash Wednesday near the intersection of Cedar Hills Drive and North Knoxville Avenue, said the Peoria County Sheriff.

As of late Tuesday morning, the influencer ― who has a prominent neck tattoo reading “NO EASY WAY OUT” ― was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He was ordered ...