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Peoria MLK Day events scheduled
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria's 31st Martin Luther King Jr. Day luncheon is being held Monday at the Peoria Civic Center. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is the keynote speaker. If you are going to ...
Jan 16, 2023 GPA Photo Archive
Fire at Planned Parenthood deemed arson
UPDATED 2:50 P.M. Statement from President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois Jennifer Welch: "On Sunday evening the Peoria Planned Parenthood Health Center was vandalized when someone threw a ...
Jan 16, 2023 (25 News)
Man arrested on weapons, traffic charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say one man is in custody after trying to flee from officers, but almost returning to the scene of the crime. According to Peoria Police Public Information Officer Semone ...
Jan 15, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
UPDATE: Vehicle fleeing scene of overdose ends up involved in fatal crash
UPDATED 7:56 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Illinois State Police say an accident late Sunday morning on U.S. 150 is fatal. The Peoria County Sheriffs Department says it started as a police chase. Peoria County ...
Jan 15, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Pritzker to participate in World Economic Forum
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is in Switzerland for few days. Pritzker has been invited to speak at and participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said Friday befor...
Jan 15, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Man arrested on weapons, other charges after domestic dispute
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man was arrested Friday afternoon after a domestic dispute police believe happened earlier in the day. Titus Leonard, 22, is in jail on charges of Domestic Battery, Interferenc...
Jan 15, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Putin says Russian military operation going well in Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the military operation in Ukraine had gained positive momentum and that he hoped his soldiers would deliver more wins after Russia claimed...
Jan 15, 2023 Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan Radiy Khabirov in Ufa, Russia January 13, 2023. Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS
Suspected Islamists kill at least 5 people in east Congo church bomb attack
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -At least five people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected Islamist militant bomb attack during a Sunday service at a Protestant church in the eastern...
Jan 15, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
At least 68 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in three decades
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight of Yeti Airlines crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the worst air crash in three decades in the small Himalayan nation. ...
Jan 15, 2023 People stand near the wreckage at the crash site of an aircraft carrying 72 people in Pokhara in western Nepal January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Bijay Neupane
Fire damages West Bluff home
PEORIA, Ill. - A candle is believed to have caused a fire that caused damage to a West Bluff home Saturday, not far from the Bradley University campus. Peoria firefighters say that was the cause of th...
Jan 15, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
