Scott Schweickert News Today

Peru will join three other La Salle County communities in applying for an Environmental Protection Agency grant to assist in identifying brownfields.

Lorenzo pleaded guilty last year to murder charges for the sexual torture and murders of Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz in December 2003.

Short-term rentals and bed and breakfasts now may be allowed in Peru as long as they are approved on a case-by-case basis through a special use permit.

A little more than a month after the Peru City Council received a special use permit request for a short-term rental property, aldermen are considering the guidelines for them.

Peru residents and travelers will have another convenience and gasoline option off of Interstate 80 beginning Thursday, June 8.

Steven Lorenzo Plea for the sentence to death: Justice for the two gay men victims - Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz.

Florida man Steven Lorenzo has received the death sentence for the murder of gay men Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz.

Confessed murderer Steven Lorenzo was sentenced to death for the 2003 murders of Jason Galehouse and Michael Waccholtz in 2003.

A judge is set to decide if Steven Lorenzo should live or die after he admitted to the brutal murder of Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz in 2003.

It’s been 18 years since Steven Lorenzo and his co-conspirator Scott Schweickert terrorized Tampa’s gay community. Men were drugged, tortured, and used as sex slaves – and two men were murdered, Jason Galehouse and Michael Waccholtz.