In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

Peoria Police arrested 26-year-old Hein Lwin in connection to the 2-year-old boy’s death. On Oct. 24, Peoria Police were called to a welfare check near 108th and Olive avenues after Lwin ...

The Peoria Police Department is looking for further information from community members regarding a fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man Monday morning. Clay Megan was killed near an apartment ...

Hein Lwin, 26, was arrested for the death of his 2-year-old stepchild. Peoria Police say Lwin abused the child at a home near 108th and Olive Avenues on Oct. 24. Lwin is accused of first-degree ...

Peoria police arrested a 14-year-old student in connection with a stabbing at the Peoria High School homecoming football game on Oct. 18. On Wednesday, the 14-year-old boy turned himself in to ...

The man accused of killing 10-year-old Torres Johnson during a botched drug deal in September pled not guilty to murder charges Thursday in Peoria County Circuit Court. Maurice D. Sargent ...

A 17-year-old was stabbed in the abdomen at the Peoria High School football game on Oct. 19. The person stabbed suffered minor injuries and is not a student at the high school. It was Peoria High ...

An advisory referendum asking Peoria Township voters if the state of Illinois should implement ranked-choice voting in statewide elections garnered strong support. According to the Peoria County ...

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Peoria Police say officers and firefighters on Oct. 24 responded to 108th and Olive Avenues after 26-year-old Hein Lwin reported that his stepchild was choking on a cloth. The child was taken to a ...