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Some Peoria residents say it feels like politicians are less and less interested in finding the center their city has long represented — and instead are more focused on playing to extremes. “It seems like there is no middle ground out there anymore,” one resident said.

CHICAGO — Election officials in a small Illinois county southwest of Peoria printed the wrong name of the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate on several hundred ballots, forcing the officials Wednesday to keep the ballots separate from all others being cast in the Nov. 8 general election.

Ben Lorenz drove with his brother Blake from their hometown in Arizona to Oregon for U.S. Open qualifying.

LOS ANGELES — In 1984, Joe Maddon was the manager of the Peoria Chiefs, a team that played in a cozy Illinois ballpark located next to an agricultural research center. The minor leagues were, shall we say, a little more informal in those days.

PEORIA, Ariz. — All season, they protested. It wasn't too much, they said.

Police reports state Navin Jones was ‘extremely malnourished with skeletal appearance’

PEORIA, Ariz. — The “if” was never considered. And the “when” is now.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Nothing illuminates the mad-scientist makeup of Padres pitcher Yu Darvish more than conversations happening a few lockers away at the team's spring-training complex.

PEORIA, Ariz. — Yu Darvish will be the Padres' starting pitcher on opening day for the second straight season.