Before joining Peoria in 2023, Mike Faust led the Arizona Department of Child Safety and has spent more than a decade living ...
Mike Bates starred on Apollo's only state baseball championship team in 1976. He died of leukemia on Jan. 27.
The 44-year-old man was taken to a hospital after the shooting but later pronounced dead, the Peoria County sheriff said.
Joe Bates was a beloved and invaluable member of the Journal Star sports department staff for 35 years. He died at age 61.