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Students at Spoon River College will pay more to attend classes in the fall.

A South Peoria teen was charged Friday in connection with a shooting near Manual Academy earlier this year.

A trail through North Peoria that park district officials hoped would open by summer will likely be delayed until the fall because of late-winter snow.
 

Peoria Park District’s Rock Island Greenway was expected to be completed by June, but the district has filed for an extension that would allow until December for Phase 3 of the largely grant-funded project.

May 11 has been set as the date for dedicating a small Sparland park that is being developed mostly with donations that now exceed $6,000.
 

Among other things discussed at a Village Board meeting Thursday night was the revelation that the dedication of Frank Park will include a community picnic with food provided through a $1,000 donation from a member of a longtime local family whose name the park will bear.

A new legal opinion concludes that a pension plan that gives retired state government employees a choice of options could be unconstitutional if it covers retired teachers.

A witness in a murder trial that resulted in a conviction Thursday was accosted and beaten on the porch of a North Valley home within hours of the guilty verdict being delivered.

Though automatic spending cuts already have gone into effect from sequestration, it represents far from the last spending fight politicians in the nation’s capital will see over the next several months.

Google will pay a $7 million penalty to settle a multistate investigation into the Internet search leader's collection of emails, passwords and other sensitive information sent over wireless networks in neighborhoods throughout the country several years ago.

An artist known for his trademark half apple in his many paintings and murals around Peoria and beyond has died from complications of an illness that kept him hospitalized almost continuously since mid-January.

The No. 1-ranked Illini Central boys basketball team dominated Nokomis, 52-38 in Friday afternoon's Class 1A state semifinal at Carver Arena.