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PEORIA (HOI) -- Peoria police say an officer was hospitalized with a gunshot wound after responding to large fight in Peoria Sunday morning. Police say around 12:15 a.m., a Peoria Police Officer in the area of the 600 block of Northeast Adams Street saw a large group fighting at the corner of Adams and Green Street.

PEORIA, Ill. — A Peoria Police Officer was injured in a shooting early Sunday morning near downtown Peoria. Peoria Police said the officer was responding to a report of a large group fighting at the intersection of Adams and Green Street about 12:15 a.m. The officer reportedly heard gunfire and called it into the Emergency Information Center.

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Sunday, Aug. 1, Shavaun C. Leemon was charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm. Leemon fired a handgun at two Peoria County Sheriff’s Deputies on Friday, July 30. His bond was set at $1 million. Multiple incidents involving the defendant prompted deputies to...

UPDATE – PEORIA, Ill. – Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified a man found dead in a South Peoria yard. Darius Dawson, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene outside a residence in the 2700 block of West Latrobe at 10:20 a.m. Saturday. An autopsy revealed Dawson suffered multiple...

PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria police officer was one of two people shot in the city’s North Valley. Sgt. Amy Dotson said the officer observed a large group of people fighting around 12:15 a.m. Sunday at Adams and Green Streets. The officer stopped his vehicle and notified dispatch, and as...

PEORIA (HOI) - According to State's Attorney, Jodi Hoos, two counts of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm, Class X Felonies, have been filed against Shavaun Leemon. Leemon allegedly fired a handgun at two Peoria County Sheriff’s Deputies on July 30. His bond was set at 1 million dollars. On July...

It was around Christmas 2015 when Mark Laesch noticed something. A sports star at Normal Community High in the early 1970s and then an Indiana University baseball standout who'd kept in shape since, he'd begun having weakness after going out on a run. A month later, he went to his...

UPDATE – PEORIA, Ill. – Charges have been filed against a man in custody following an officer-involved shooting in West Peoria Friday. Peoria County State’s Attorney Jodi Hoos says Shavaun Leemon, 20, has been charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm for allegedly shooting at two Peoria County Sheriff’s deputies.

ILLINOIS — The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police is astonished that Facebook has blocked its attempt to promote its Officer of the Year, Patrolman Jeffrey Bieber of the East Peoria Police Department, according to a statement from the organization. The Chiefs’ Association wanted more people to know about hero...

The Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police wanted more people to know about hero East Peoria Officer Jeffrey Bieber, so it planned to pay Facebook extra for a "boost" in distribution of its post, according to a report. But the social networking giant rejected the police group’s request, citing "sensitive...

BLOOMINGTON — There's just something about live music outdoors in the summer, said Terry Koch, 64, who came to downtown Bloomington for Saturdays on the Square. "It's a gorgeous day just to come out and listen to music and get out of the house," said Koch, of Bloomington. Music reverberated...

Peoria, Ill -- The Promise Academy announced their plan to rename their gymnasium to honor the late Coach Wayne McClain. School staff member Bishop Timothy Criss said the goal was for the gym to be completely transformed in honor of Coach McClain. The Promise Academy gym is where McClain began...

NORMAL — Fransen Nature Area is easy to overlook. It doesn’t have a parking lot, playground equipment or other amenities you find in highly developed parks. What it does have is a field of wildflowers that is bursting with color right now, a fishing pond with colors of its own (more on that later), a gravel pathway and places to sit and contemplate nature.