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UPDATE: Peoria records its 19th homicide of 2023. Here's what we know
UPDATED 12:53 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - A man has died after being shot in Peoria Monday night at the Phillips 66 gas station near the intersection of Sheridan and McClure. Peoria Police say a ShotSpotter a...
Sep 19, 2023 (25 News)
Peoria Police Chief talks shooting victims and juvenile crime
PEORIA, Ill. - Murders are down in Peoria this year, but shootings, and rounds fired, are both up. And, Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria says there's one group of people that are being impacted the...
Sep 18, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
New State Police rules for assault weapons permits will take effect Oct. 1
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinoisans who own weapons that can no longer be purchased or sold in the state under its new assault weapons ban will soon be able to register those weapo...
Sep 18, 2023 brian.ch / CC
Suspect in Los Angeles deputy's killing detained
(Reuters) -A man suspected of ambushing and fatally shooting a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy at a traffic light over the weekend has been detained, local authorities said on Monday. A reward of ...
Sep 18, 2023 Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer (Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department)
Son of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' pleads not guilty to U.S. trafficking charges
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Ovidio Guzman, one of the sons of incarcerated Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, pleaded not guilty to U.S. fentanyl trafficking charges on Monday in federal court in Chi...
Sep 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Ovidio Guzman, son of kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is briefly captured by Mexican military police in a residential compound near the centre of Culiacan in the state of Sinaloa, Mexico October 17, 2019 in this still image taken from a helmet camera footage obtained October 30, 2019. Mexican Government TV/Handout via REUTERS/File photo
Police: Woman assaulted in East Peoria by possible solar panel salesman
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Police in East Peoria say they need your help finding someone who might have recently assaulted a woman there. Police don't say when it happened, but say a female claims to have be...
Sep 18, 2023 (File/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Pekin Township Office building described as "stable" with deeper inspections planned this week
PEKIN, Ill. - What remains of the Pekin Township Office building after two walls collapsed earlier this month has been described as "stable." An emergency demolition had to be ordered after the west w...
Sep 18, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man injured after being shot at Saturday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are looking for someone who is believed to have shot a man late Saturday night in the Averyville area. Officers went to Adams and Spitznagle just after 11 p.m., and learne...
Sep 18, 2023 Midwest Communications
Big jackpots for lottery games up for grabs Monday night. Here's where each game stands
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - There's a couple opportunities Monday night to win life changing money. The jackpot for the Illinois Lottery's Lotto game currently sits at around $23.6 million. That's the second ...
Sep 18, 2023
Biden's son Hunter sues IRS, alleges unlawful release of his taxes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging unlawful disclosure of his taxes by whistleblowers who work for the U.S. tax ag...
Sep 18, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Hunter Biden walks to the motorcade after arriving at Fort McNair, after U.S. President Joe Biden spent the weekend at Camp David, in Washington, U.S., July 4, 2023. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson/File Photo
