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PPD: Suspect evades traffic stops, injures innocent driver
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police say a suspect evaded officers and then slammed into another vehicle, causing significant injuries to one person late Wednesday. PPD has now released details about the inc...
Oct 20, 2022 (File-1470-100.3 WMBD/Mike Sabol)
Ukrainians face first nationwide electricity outages after Russian strikes
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainians faced their first large-scale nationwide disruptions to electricity on Thursday as officials sought to restrict supply to allow energy companies to repair power facilities ...
Oct 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A shopper uses a torch to see products in a supermarket as Kharkiv suffers an electricity outage, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
UK's Truss says she is resigning as PM
LONDON (Reuters) - Liz Truss said on Thursday she was resigning as British prime minister just six weeks after she was appointed, brought down by an economic program that sent shockwaves through finan...
Oct 20, 2022 British Prime Minister Liz Truss gives statement outside Number 10 Downing Street, London, Britain October 20, 2022. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Trump's company faces criminal tax trial as his legal woes mount
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's family company is set to face a criminal trial on tax fraud charges in New York starting next week that could trigger fines and further complicate the real estate f...
Oct 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks during a rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Minden, Nevada, U.S., October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
NATO allies would act if Sweden, Finland come under pressure, Stoltenberg says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO allies will act if Sweden or Finland come under pressure from Russia or another adversary before they become full members of the alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stolten...
Oct 20, 2022 FILE PHOTO: NATO, Swedish and Finnish flags are seen in this illustration taken May 12, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Peoria dedicates new Station 4 to the city's first black firefighter
PEORIA, Ill. -- Some refused to eat with him and didn't want to be next to him, but an African American fireman didn't stop serving his city. Decades later, his name will not be forgotten. Station 4 i...
Oct 20, 2022 (Peoria Fire Department Facebook)
Peoria County launches website to help small businesses get started
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria County has officially launched a website that can help small business owners get started -- and, with that, potentially get a startup grant. The website is StartABusinessGP.org -...
Oct 19, 2022 (Peoria County Government via Facebook)
Man sentenced to 38 years in prison for 2021 murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will go to prison for the lower end of what was possible after being convicted of murder and other charges in connection with a 2021 homicide. Peoria County Court records i...
Oct 19, 2022
Judge says Trump knowingly pressed inaccurate voter fraud claims in court
(Reuters) -A California federal judge on Wednesday said then-U.S. President Donald Trump had signed a sworn statement asserting that voter fraud numbers included in a 2020 election lawsuit were accura...
Oct 19, 2022 FILE PHOTO - Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally ahead of the midterm elections, in Mesa, Arizona, U.S., October 9, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Grand jury files charges in 2021 street racing crash with school bus
UPDATED 2:51 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria County grand jury has filed a host of charges against a Peoria man listed in jail records as homeless, after a street racing incident last year that left thre...
Oct 19, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail September 2022)
