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Teenager arrested on weapons charges after police chase in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police arrested a teenager on weapons charges after a brief chase Tuesday afternoon in South Peoria. Officers attempted to make contact with a 13-year-old who was a wanted subjec...
Aug 16, 2023 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Biden to survey Maui wildfire destruction, meet survivors
UPDATED 1:36 P.M. LAHAINA, Hawaii (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii next week to survey the devastation left in the wake of the deadly wildfires that ...
Aug 16, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden disembark from Marine One at Delaware Air National Guard Base en route to Wilmington, in New Castle, Delaware, U.S., August 4, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Schumer: Government funding resolution agreement with McCarthy is 'good sign'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday said he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a few weeks ago and agreed to a resolution that could extend current federal...
Aug 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), holds a press conference after the weekly Democratic caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 19, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Peoria woman accused by grand jury of having sex with a minor
UPDATED 2:09 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A now-former employee of Peoria's Friendship House was indicted by a Grand Jury on Tuesday for Criminal Sexual Assault, a class 1 felony. Jasmine Lamon, 22, according ...
Aug 16, 2023 Jasmine Lamon (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friendship House/LinkedIn)
Peoria crews battle garage fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria crews were called to a garage fire early Wednesday morning in the area of E. Corrington and N. Maryland Avenue. Firefighters arrived just before 1:30 a.m., finding a detached gar...
Aug 16, 2023 D4E / CC
Maui's displaced grow anxious as wildfire recovery drags on
LAHAINA, Hawaii (Reuters) -A week after wildfire ravaged the resort town of Lahaina, traumatized Maui residents have grown weary from living off relief supplies while many are kept from inspecting the...
Aug 16, 2023 Fire damage is shown in the Wahikuli Terrace neighborhood in the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake
Georgia court acknowledges releasing Trump document on website
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Fulton County Georgia court clerk on Tuesday acknowledged the release on its website of a document about former President Donald Trump being criminally charged, as Reuters re...
Aug 15, 2023 A document briefly posted on and then taken down from the official Fulton County, Georgia court website shows a list of potential felony charges against former President Donald Trump, after being downloaded by Reuters shortly before the court took the document back down without explanation, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. August 14, 2023. REUTERS/Julio-Cesar Chavez
Gun industry group challenges new firearms marketing restrictions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A gun trade association has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Illinois law that restricts how gun dealers and manufacturers market their products. T...
Aug 15, 2023 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul listens during a May House floor debate of a bill subjecting gun dealers and manufacturers to civil action if they use deceptive marketing practices. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Reaction to prison sentence for the man who firebombed Peoria's Planned Parenthood facility
PEORIA, Ill. - "This was an attack on all of us." That's how Congressman Eric Sorensen described the firebombing of the Peoria Planned Parenthood facility, not long after the man who did it got a ten ...
Aug 15, 2023 Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-East Moline), and Jennifer Welch, CEO of Planned Parenthood Illinois, speak Tuesday at a news conference outside the federal court building in downtown Peoria. (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden says he plans to visit Hawaii for Maui recovery efforts soon
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he will travel to Hawaii "as soon as I can" to review recovery efforts from wildfires that swept across Maui and killed dozens of people. ...
Aug 15, 2023 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell speaks virtually to reporters about the Maui wildfires during a press briefing held by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 14, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
