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Teachers vote to approve contract with PPS
PEORIA, Ill. - It's all but a done deal now. The Peoria Federation of Teachers says on social media teachers have overwhelmingly approved the contract worked out on Thursday with the Peoria Public Sch...
Sep 18, 2022 (Peoria Federation of Teachers via Facebook)
Man arrested on gun charges following fight
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is jailed following a fight early Sunday morning. Police say Myriece Byrd, 20, was arrested following a traffic stop near Gilbert Avenue and Mission Road on charges of Aggr...
Sep 18, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail March 2022)
Man dead following crash near Chillicothe
CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - A man is dead following an accident near Chillicothe early Sunday morning. The Peoria County Sheriffs Department says the crash happened around 1:00 a.m. on Krause Road in rural Ch...
Sep 18, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
State encouraged by those willing to get bivalent COVID booster vaccine
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Healh says the number of new cases of COVID-19 in the state is continuing to go down, and the number of people looking to get the latest COVID-19 ...
Sep 18, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
New lawsuit filed by Democrat to stop SAFE-T Act
JOLIET, Ill. - There's now a second State's Attorney in Illinois who is filling lawsuit against the State of Illinois over the "cashless bail" provision of the "SAFE-T Act." Will County State's Attorn...
Sep 18, 2022 Brian Turner / CC
Severe weather possible in Peoria Sunday evening
PEORIA, Ill. - The weekend is not going to end on a positive note weather-wise. 25 News First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins says despite the storms of this morning, more severe storms will b...
Sep 18, 2022 (National Weather Service)
Hurricane Fiona barrels toward Puerto Rico with heavy winds, rain
UPDATED 10:20 A.M. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - The powerful storm Fiona has strengthened into a hurricane as it barrels toward Puerto Rico on Sunday, threatening to slam the U.S. territory with ...
Sep 18, 2022 A small boat tugs a small sailboat to safety as tropical storm Fiona approaches in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico September 17, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo
Biden meets families of Russian-held detainees Griner, Whelan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden met on Friday with families of two Americans being held by Russia, and personally reassured them he is working to gain freedom for the detainees. Biden sat do...
Sep 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO - U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, sits inside a defendants' cage after the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool
Special master examining Trump documents to hold first hearing on Tuesday
(Reuters) - An independent arbiter, known as a special master, appointed to examine the contents of classified documents seized by the FBI from ex-President Donald Trump's Florida estate last month wi...
Sep 17, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
The queen's queue: people line up for 16 hours to see coffin
LONDON (Reuters) - People flocked to central London to join a queue to file past the coffin of Queen Elizabeth on Saturday, undeterred by a government warning to stay at home to avoid standing in line...
Sep 17, 2022 Britain's King Charles III (L), Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales and Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (R) walk behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown and pulled by a Gun Carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, during a procession from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster, in London on September 14, 2022. - Queen Elizabeth II will lie in state in Westminster Hall inside the Palace of Westminster, from Wednesday until a few hours before her funeral on Monday, with huge queues expected to file past her coffin to pay their respects. DANIEL LEAL/Pool via REUTERS
