Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s hard to imagine Sam Kinison growing old and mellowing out. The infant Sam arrived in East Peoria nearly 62 years ago. That’s ...

Last November, Bill Kinison interrupted rehearsals for the one-man show he was workshopping to grab a quick flight to Illinois to retrieve his elderly in-laws. He had just kissed his wife Sherry ...

Good morning, troops. It’s Thursday, Dec. 8. It also would have been the 63 rd birthday of Sam Kinison, who aside from Richard Pryor is the most famous comedian the Peoria area has produced. The son ...

The setup: Sam Kinison died young, aged 38, ironically as a result of someone else's drunk driving, yet his name lives on. He grew up in a family of midwestern Pentecostal preachers. He had the zeal ...

Comedian Sam Kinison, son of a husband-and-wife Pentecostal preaching team, on the end of his own career as an evangelist: “I started saying things in church that didn’t meet with a lot of approval – ...