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As another year comes to a close, Peoria Public Radio is compiling a list of this year's top 6 local news stories.

People who live downstream of the Northern California dam were allowed to return to their homes more than two days after the structure's concrete spillways suffered serious water damage.

President Biden is touring a battered California. The state has endured a series of powerful storms in recent weeks. Damage estimates are topping $1 billion with 40 of the state's 58 counties hit.

Commentator Sam Fulwood says the fight in Prince George's County, Maryland over inviting Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to speak to an eighth-grade class is a public spectacle of official cowardice, racial politics and divisive posturing. He claims it is a sad example of how race is discussed and used in this country.

Noah Adams talks to NPR's Andy Bowers in Tallahassee about today's court hearing concerning absentee ballots in Seminole County. Democratic voters have filed a lawsuit claiming Republicans illegally tampered with ballot applications from absentee voters. The lawsuit is aimed at getting all of the absentee ballots in question -- and thus George W. Bush's narrow lead in Florida -- thrown out.

In a victory for the Bush legal team, Florida circuit court justices today rejected legal efforts to have thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin counties thrown out. The plaintiffs had argued that applications for those absentee ballots had been illegally adjusted by Republican party operatives. Justices ruled that any irregularities with the applications did not misrepresent the intentions of the voters themselves.

Oregon's Measure 114 gives county sheriffs and police chiefs discretion to determine who qualifies to purchase a firearm. Opponents say the criteria to make those decisions is ambiguous.

Experts on intimate partner violence and restorative justice spoke to Bloomington's Special Commission for Safe Communities at its October meeting.

Following a public work session Saturday morning, Connect Transit's board has a better idea of what its new Connect to the Future working group should…

An unvaccinated child has died from measles in West Texas. The death comes after weeks of a growing outbreak that has sickened more than 130 people in Texas and New Mexico, most of them children.