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Two arrested on suspicion of committing vehicle burglaries
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents are jailed on charges accusing them of breaking into vehicles early Wednesday morning. Peoria Police say Rayland Drain, 19, faces charges of Resisting Arrest and Ag...
Aug 23, 2023 Rayland Drain (left) and Isiah Abner (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Peoria woman dies from suffocation, ruled as a homicide; son arrested for murder
UPDATED 3:39 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria now has recorded fifteen homicides this year - three of them in the last week. That's after Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says he's ruled the death of a l...
Aug 23, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Candidates announce runs in 2024 for 10th Circuit Judge, Tazewell County Auditor
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people running for two different public offices in the November, 2024 election are announcing their candidacies Wednesday. Samuel Goddard, who claims to own three businesses in Peki...
Aug 23, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Four Peorians face federal charges accusing them of breaking into gun stores
PEORIA, Ill. - Federal prosecutors say four Peoria residents face charges after allegedly trying to stealing guns from six different stores in six different central Illinois locations. The U.S. Attorn...
Aug 23, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russia's most powerful mercenary, believed killed in plane crash
UPDATED 5:53 P.M. MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's most powerful mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane which crashed on Wednesday evening north of Moscow with no survivors, the Russian authoritie...
Aug 23, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid the group's pullout from the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo
UPDATE: Illinois Department of Transportation and construction company react to Tuesday's crane fire near McClugage Bridge
UPDATED 4:06 P.M. EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Transportation and the company that owns the crane that caught on fire Tuesday afternoon near the McClugage Bridge are reacting to the ...
Aug 23, 2023 (From Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
UPDATE: Suspect in active shooter situation in Pittsburgh is dead
UPDATED 6:38 P.M. PITTSBURGH - An hours-long active shooter situation Wednesday in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood is over. The standoff ended when authorities shot and killed William Hardison...
Aug 23, 2023 Midwest Communications
As perjury trial draws to close, ex-Madigan aide leans on memory science, wife in defense
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - In more than two weeks of his obstruction of justice and perjury trial, one fact about the longtime chief of staff to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan ca...
Aug 23, 2023 Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Monday. He is standing trial for perjury and obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
UPDATE: Giuliani surrenders in Trump election subversion case, $150,000 bond set
UPDATED 2:10 P.M. ATLANTA (Reuters) -Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday surrendered at a jail in Georgia's Fulton County to face state charges arising from actions he ...
Aug 23, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for former President Donald Trump during challenges to the 2020 election results, exits U.S. District Court after attending a hearing in a defamation suit related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election results, that has been brought against Giuliani by two Georgia election workers, at the federal courthouse in Washington, U.S., May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Accidental shooting Saturday evening claims life of Marquette Heights teenager
MARQUETTE HEIGHTS, Ill. - A Marquette Heights teenager died after an accidental shooting Saturday evening. The Peoria County Coroner says Marquette Heights Police and EMS responded at around 9:24 P.M....
Aug 23, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
