I annoyed some people with a line at the bottom of this post, which noted that a member of the Peoria Chiefs who tossed a baseball an oposing player and instead hit a fan could get 16 years in prison. The line I added was:
Which is longer than some college athletes get for killing their [...]

Journal Star columnist Pam Adams is a bit of a race baiter. She can look at just about any issue, and describe it as an example of racism. This is especially true when the subject of Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis.
In today’s column, Adams looks over minutes from the September meeting of the Peoria Race Relations [...]

Remember Peoria County Judge Scott Shore? I almost forgot about him.
He’s the jurist who came under some scrutiny for light sentences given to miscreants several years ago.
First there was Omar Porter, who Shore sentenced to 18 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by hiding a gun outside Greeley School. With credit [...]

Here we go again.
On the way home from work today, I stopped at Huck’s Convenient Store, 6818 N War Memorial Dr, located at the Willow Knolls shopping center in North Peoria, to buy couple of gallons of gasoline for the errands I needed to run.
The total price for 2.058 gallons of premium gasoline was $7.32. [...]

A South Peoria gasoline station was the scene of a shooting that left someone with a bullet wound in the groin. And how is this for irony: The shooter apparently goes by the name “Law.”
It’s the second recent incident at the station, located at 1016 S. Western. Which doesn’t count the empty lot across the [...]

Links via the Peoria Journal Star:

Here’s some discussion of traffic along West Main Street in the West Bluff. Hopefully, all these traffic studies will provide details that will replace all the anecdotal evidence that the street needs to be narrowed. I’m 45 years old and I can’t recall a time when West Main wasn’t congested. [...]

It’s become a habit to dismiss the lives of the victims of gun violence. So many of the victims seem to be on the wrong side of the law. The Journal Star has turned in its second-day story on the murder of Teddy Jackson, there’s no indication that the young man was a negative influence [...]

From the Peoria Journal Star:
Teddy C. Jackson, 26, of 2020 W. Howett St., was shot in the head about 1:05 a.m. outside The Rock Christian Entertainment Complex, 815 S.W. Adams St., according to Peoria police. He was pronounced dead in the emergency room at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center at 1:30 a.m., said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll.
We will [...]

Another strange crime in Peoria:
One man reportedly restrained the victim while the others beat him on his back and face. One of the attackers, whom the victim recognized as the son of the man who hired him to put siding on his house at 2412 W. Marquette St., also yelled at the victim about work [...]

If you are going to rob a driver from the seat of your bicycle, it’s probably not a good idea to place your bike anywhere near the business end of the car’s front bumper.
NOTE: Several points need to be made about the Web version of this article:

The comments are filled with racist gibberish.
The URL of [...]