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Man arrested for August assault near Peoria apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - An arrest has been made after an assault near a Peoria apartment complex in August. Peoria Police says 29-year-old Jalyn Grinslade was identified as the suspect in the incident near Bra...
Nov 24, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Victim in Peoria apartment complex fatal shooting identified
PEORIA, Ill. - The 17-year-old victim in a fatal shooting at a Peoria apartment complex Saturday night has been identified. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says 17-year-old Matthew Day likely died...
Nov 24, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
Unloaded gun reportedly found in locker at Tremont Middle School
TREMONT, Ill. - Tremont Police say there's no indication of any threats after an unloaded firearm was allegedly found at a school. Police say they were notified by Tremont Middle School administration...
Nov 24, 2025 (Tremont Police)
Update: US judge tosses case against ex-FBI chief Comey, New York AG James
Updated at 12 p.m. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the U.S....
Nov 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Former FBI Director James Comey speaks to the media after giving a private deposition to the House Judiciary and House Government and Oversight committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts//File Photo
Victim in officer-involved shooting at St. Louis' Lambert International Airport identified as South Peoria man
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO, - A man believed to be homeless with a last known address in South Peoria has been identified as the victim in a fatal officer-involved shooting at St. Louis' Lambert Internation...
Nov 24, 2025
Gaza truce progress slow as Israeli-Hamas violence persists
CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza near the line demarcating areas of Israeli control on Monday, underlining the struggle to broaden a fragile ceasefire deal a...
Nov 24, 2025 Palestinians walk among piles of rubble and damaged buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 24, 2025. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
Gilson man charged with multiple felonies for trying to meet teen for sex
EUREKA, Ill. - A Gilson man was arrested over the weekend for allegedly traveling to Woodford County to meet up with what he thought was a 15-year-old girl for sex. Woodford County Chief Deputy Dennis...
Nov 24, 2025 36-year-old Michael Briggs, of Gilson, Illinois. (Woodford County Jail)
South Side Mission begins preparations for 54th Thanksgiving Meal Ministry
PEORIA, Ill. - It's a busy week for everyone at Peoria's South Side Mission. On Monday, the prep work begins for their 54th annual Thanksgiving Meal Ministry. "We're going to take out about 2,600 meal...
Nov 24, 2025 (South Side Mission)
US, Ukraine work on 'refined' peace plan to end war with Russia
KYIV/GENEVA (Reuters) -The United States and Ukraine sought on Monday to narrow the gaps in a peace plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European ...
Nov 24, 2025 Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, address the media after closed-door talks at the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, November 23, 2025. REUTERS/Emma Farge
Jimmy Cliff, reggae music pioneer, dies at 81
KINGSTON (Reuters) -Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who along with Bob Marley popularized reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a six decade career, has died, his wife Latifa Chambers annou...
Nov 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Jamaican musician Jimmy Cliff performs during the 10th Mawazine World Rhythms international music festival in Rabat May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal/File Photo
