ELLSWORTH, Wis. - The live-in girlfriend of a former Pekin man will spend no time in prison for gunning him down and boxing up his body last year, according to Wisconsin media reports. Rose M. Kuehni, 45, was sentenced Tuesday in 10 years' probation for fatally shooting Douglas Bailey, 51, in their Prescott home Nov. 22, 2015, according to the Eau Claire Leader Telegram. http://www.leadertelegram.com/News/Daily-Updates/2016/12/06/Woman-sentenced-in-Pierce-County-domestic-abuse-case.html The case involved a ruse by Kuehni that led police on a wild-goose chase through Peoria County, with the body eventually found in rural Kentucky, allegedly dumped there by her off-and-on lover...

PEORIA -A 21-year-old man told Peoria police he was shot in the buttocks Monday night by an unknown person. Police found the victim in the rear of an apartment building in the 400 block of West Columbia Terrace at about 9:38 p.m., according to a report filed at the Peoria police department. The victim said he was outside the building near a fence that ran along an alley when a man in a black hoodie shot him. He told police he didn't know who he was or why anyone would shoot at him, according to the report...

Good morning, troops. It's Tuesday, Dec. 6. It's the 75th anniversary of the birth of Richard Speck, one of the most notorious mass murderers in American history. On July 14, 1966, Speck tortured, raped and murdered eight nursing students who lived together on the South Side of Chicago. (It's also one day after the 25th anniversary of Speck's death, which took place in Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet. A video that showed Speck apparently living the high life in prison sparked outrage, as well it should have...

President-elect Donald Trump sold all his shares in companies in June, his spokesman said Tuesday, a move that could have created a cash windfall as he ramped up to begin a costly general election presidential campaign that at the time he claimed he would personally support with "major contributions."

PEORIA - CityLink general manager Al Stanek will retire at year's end, the transit agency announced Tuesday morning. Stanek, 66, will retire and return home to his native Wisconsin, according to a brief news release from the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District, which oversees operations of CityLink and the CityLift paratransit service. He began work with the agency in February 2015, replacing retired general manager Tom Lucek. Stanek's tenure has been marked by discussions over possible changes to cost and service operations for CityLift passengers traveling to and from agencies aiding the disabled, an ongoing budget stalemate in Springfield that has affected short-term cash flow, and, most recently, ongoing contract talks with the transit union...

PEORIA - Bradley Hall of Famer Joe Stowell will be honored this week at a pair of events to celebrate his upcoming birthday. Stowell, who will turn 90 on Dec. 24, will be featured at the Braves Club Game Day Luncheon on Friday at Renaissance Coliseum and at the men's basketball game against Chicago State on Saturday night at Carver Arena. All of Stowell's former Bradley teammates, as well as all of the freshmen and varsity men's and women's basketball athletes to play for him in his 24-year Braves coaching career have been invited to campus this weekend...

Teenage men drinking soda pop and watching half-naked women dancing to "Indian Outlaw" isn't as lucrative as booze-imbibing adults doing the same thing. That appears to be the rationale the owner of a South Peoria semi-striptease club is using in pursuit of a liquor license. The potential licensee is Dixie Rose Country Rock Cabaret, 104 South St. The site once was occupied by Amnesia, a linchpin of what previous owners had envisioned as the "Meatpacking District." The area near the Peoria Union Stockyards was to include a music club and a bar-eatery...

PEORIA - Attorneys for the U.S. government say Aaron Schock's request to move his federal corruption trial from Springfield to Peoria should be denied as the 75-minute drive is nothing for the former Congressman who travels all over the world. "Defendant Schock is thus no different from and is entitled to nothing more than the Adams County defendant whose trial takes place in Springfield, or the Schuyler or Hancock County defendant whose trial takes place in Rock Island, or the McLean County defendant whose trial takes place in Peoria," the 21-page response to Schock's motion last month stated...