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Leigh Ann Monthey calms Mike Scheerer after he was startled by the first sounds from his cochlear ear implant. Monthey is a clinical applications specialist and audiologist with Cochlear Americas, manufacturer of the device. In the background are Dr. Jim Klemens, who Scheerer's performed surgery, the first in Peoria, and Illinois Neurological Institute audiologist Becky Braun.
10/28/2009
Album ID: 875794
Photos by David Zalaznik

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Attorney Andy Savage, left, approaches the U. S. District Courthouse in Peoria, Ill. with the rest of the defense team Wednesday for the sentencing hearing of their client, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri. Al-Marri faces a possible maximum sentence of 15 years for providing material support to al-Qaida.
10/28/2009
Album ID: 875764
Photos by David Zalaznik

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Bradley's Dr. Leslie A. Sconduto has embraced the dual nature of the werewolf, both as a metaphor for the evils that lie inside the hearts of men and the belief that the mythical creature actually exists. Her research into the literary works devoted to the creature over the ages is captured in her new book, Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance.
10/28/2009
Album ID: 875709
Photos by Fred Zwicky

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Peoria Christian defeats Rochester 3-1 for a trip to the Class 1A state soccer quarterfinals in Naperville.
10/27/2009
Album ID: 875133
Photos by Matt Dayhoff

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Posh Tots Academy in Germantown Hills has long lines of parents and children seeking the H1N1 flu vaccine.
10/27/2009
Album ID: 875097
Photos by Ron Johnson

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Charlie Hurt of All Around the House and More has bounced back after being laid off from Caterpillar, creating this remodeling, painting and handy man service for the Peoria area.
10/27/2009
Album ID: 874938
Photos by Fred Zwicky

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For Jim Crain, 81, the fall growing season has been entirely too productive as he mulches leaves at his North Bigelow Street home. Crain said with little enthusiasm, "I've got a tremendous crop of leaves. A tremendous crop of leaves to contend with."
10/27/2009
Album ID: 874926
Photos by Fred Zwicky

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Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri lived in the lower apartment in this building at the Edgewood Apartments in West Peoria with his wife and five children before he was arrested and charged with providing material support for terror and conspiracy. He moved in the apartment shortly after 9-11 and alegedly did work for al-Qaida on his home computer.
10/27/2009
Album ID: 874850
Photos by Leslie Renken

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Virginia Smith chats with Jerry Osburne at Aunt Marge's Tavern in Chillicothe. Smith's mother, Marge Taylor, ran a speakeasy before opening the pub, along the way encountering such characters as Al Capone and Bernie Shelton. Smith, 87, still owns the building and lives upstairs.
10/27/2009
Album ID: 874817
Photos by Phil Luciano

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Two-year-old Kyleia Downs of Peoria reaches for candy from Nora Lovell, owner of Peek-in Pottery, while trick-or-treating at downtown Pekin businesses Saturday with her grandmother, Glenna Farden of Pekin. Lovell said she handed out more than 150 trick-or-treat bags and pieces of candy to ghosts, goblins and princesses.
10/27/2009
Album ID: 873702
Photos by Elise Zwicky

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Ken Rumbold, who farms 800 acres off of Old Galena Road in the Medina Township in Peoria County with his son Jim, fixes a grain leg that carries grain up to their six corn bins where they dry their harvested crops as his grandson, Lukas Rumbold, 10, watches. Jim said that down-town created by wet field conditions gives them time to work on farm equipment, adding that if wet conditions continue, they will be feeding their soybeans into the dryers as well.
10/26/2009
Album ID: 874158
Photos by Fred Zwicky

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Kindergarteners in Nanette Steveson at Woodrow Wilson School in East Peoria sit on stability balls during a classroom activity Monday morning.
10/26/2009
Album ID: 874123
Photos by Leslie Renken

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Four Von Steuben Middle School students are serenaded by members of MWAH! during a performance at the school Monday afternoon. The four students were named as heros within their school, so MWAH! performed the Enrique Iglesias song I Can Be Your Hero in their honor. Students are, from left, Aisha Tieson, Rjay Pilgrim, Jesus Covarubbias, and Kayla Butler.
10/26/2009
Album ID: 874122
Photos by Leslie Renken