PEORIA - Changes are now in place at Peoria's public radio station, including to the station's staffing.

CHICAGO - The mother and father of a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar who went missing in 2017 arrived at a central Illinois on Monday for the start of the federal death-penalty trial of a former University of Illinois graduate student accused of kidnapping, torturing and killing their daughter.

PEORIA - A 24-year-old Peoria man was ordered held on $500,000 bond for allegedly trying to kill last month at a South Peoria gas station.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration found substantial levels of a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according to FDA researchers.

PEORIA HEIGHTS - Village officials agree that motorists frequently ignore speed limits and travel too fast on Glen and Glen Elm avenues in Peoria Heights.