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Pekin Council fires city manager
PEKIN, Ill. -- The Pekin City Council Monday night fired City Manager Mark Rothert, but Mayor Mark Luft was opposed to the idea. The council took the vote in open session after meeting for about 1 1/2...
Oct 25, 2022 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
PPD investigating Peoria's 22nd homicide of the year
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called to S. Saratoga Street, near W. Johnson Street and S. Richard Pryor Place, around 7:40 p.m. Monday night to a ShotSpotter alert indicating two shots were fired...
Oct 25, 2022 (25 News)
LaSalle Veterans' Home experiencing COVID-19 surge
LaSALLE COUNTY, Ill. -- The Illinois Veterans' Home in LaSalle is experiencing a COVID-19 outbreak among its veterans and staff. Following robust rapid testing, 42 residents and 23 staff members teste...
Oct 24, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Comic actor Leslie Jordan, 67, killed in Hollywood car accident
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Leslie Jordan, a prime-time Emmy winner for his role on the hit sitcom "Will & Grace" and a social media sensation during the COVID-19 pandemic, died on Monday ...
Oct 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Leslie Jordan announcing the winner of Duo Of The Year Dan + Shay at the 56th Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. April 18, 2021. REUTERS/Harrison McClary/
Coroner's Office: Peoria's 21st homicide victim of 2022 is identified
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man shot and killed early Saturday morning in Peoria's 21st recorded homicide is now being identified by the Peoria County Coroner's office. According to an updated release, the vict...
Oct 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
St. Louis high school shooting leaves three dead, including suspect
(Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a St. Louis high school on Monday morning, killing at least two people and wounding six others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city's police commissio...
Oct 24, 2022
Sheriff's Office: Peoria county girl partially run over by lawn mower
ELMWOOD, Ill. -- A local child is being treated for severe injuries following a near tragic accident where she was partially run over by a lawn mower. Peoria County Sheriff's officials say it happened...
Oct 24, 2022
Michigan teen pleads guilty in school shooting that killed 4 students
(Reuters) -A Michigan teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism charges in a mass shooting at a high school last year that killed four of his classmates and wounded more than half a do...
Oct 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Ethan Crumbley, 15, who is charged with the fatal shooting of four fellow students and the wounding of seven others, including a teacher at Oxford high school on November 30, 2021, is led away from the courtroom after a placement hearing at Oakland County circuit court in Pontiac, U.S. February 22, 2022. Picture taken February 22, 2022. David Guralnick/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Rishi Sunak to become Britain's next PM after months of turmoil
LONDON (Reuters) - Rishi Sunak will become Britain's next prime minister after he won the race on Monday to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an econom...
Oct 24, 2022 New leader of the Britain's Conservative Party Rishi Sunak walks outside the Conservative Campaign Headquarters, in London, Britain October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
U.S. student test results document pandemic's toll on learning
(Reuters) - U.S. students have experienced historic learning setbacks with math and reading scores falling to their lowest levels in years, national exam results released on Monday showed, the latest ...
Oct 24, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Fulton County Public Schools 8th grader Ceani Williams participates in an online class during a virtual learning day at a desk in her bedroom in Milton, Georgia, U.S., January 4, 2022, after students have gone remote for a week as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to surge. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo
