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A Peoria-based organization caring for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities has seen 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19.

The Peoria Fire Department has stayed busy this week, putting out fires set to businesses, homes, cars and dumpsters. At least 15 arson fires have been...

Central Illinois is officially moving out of additional mitigations as the region's COVID-19 statistics continue to improve.

District 87 schools will be closed for a third consecutive day Friday as Bloomington-Normal starts to dig out of this week's major snowstorm.

A federal judge has sentenced a 39-year-old woman to 14 years in prison for dealing methamphetamine in central Illinois.

The U.S. military used DNA analysis to identity the body of John Ferguson of Flanagan. Ferguson was 20 when he died as a prisoner of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. He will be buried Oct. 1 in Gridley.

The man accused of attacking GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin at a campaign event had apparently been drinking and didn't know who the lawmaker was.

The family of a Mississippi man whose dismembered body was found in November said his newly released autopsy report shows he was murdered, and they called for a federal investigation into the case.

A 13-foot-8.5-inch male alligator was "humanely killed" and removed from the water, authorities said, after a local resident saw the reptile latching onto human remains in a Tampa Bay area canal.

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation recently became the first federally recognized tribal nation in the state. The government illegally sold the land from under Chief Shab-eh-nay around 1850.