EAST PEORIA - What do you do when a 9-year-old murders?That's the vexing question in Woodford County, where a 9-year-old faces five counts of first-degree murder (plus lesser counts) in connection with a mobile-home fire in April near Goodfield.
The family of the 9-year-old boy charged with murder in connection to a rural-Goodfield mobile-home fire earlier this year revealed his identity on national television Thursday morning.
Financial assets of downstate and suburban police and fire pension systems should be consolidated to ease burdens on local property taxes, a state pension task force is recommending.
