Lifting their voices
The Peoria Fellowship Choir is made up of about 30 young people from various churches across the city, mostly Baptist and predominantly black. For the members, the choir is more than just a singing...
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Short in stature, big on charm
In 1997, Drake Taylor, 3, was one of fewer than 200 people in the world diagnosed with Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II. Unlike achondroplasia, the most common type of dwarfism, Drake’s limbs and...
Drifting with the Beckett brothers
Gerald and John Beckett spent their younger days as quintessential hoboes, hopping boxcars and drifting along the highways and byways of America until they had visited nearly every state. But they always returned to...
Tornado rips through Washington
On Nov. 17, 2013, a massive tornado formed near Pekin, Illinois and traveled about 40 miles northeast, tearing a mile-wide swath through the countryside until it hit the small city of Washington. The F5...