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Peoria Police investigate three shooting scenes
UPDATED 3:48 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are responding to three different shots fired calls in the city's East Bluff neighborhood Thursday afternoon. Police spokesperson Semone Roth says office...
Oct 06, 2022 (25 News)
At least six people stabbed, one fatally, outside Las Vegas casino
(Reuters) - At least six people were stabbed on Thursday, one of them fatally, outside a Las Vegas casino, city police said. The stabbing attack, along a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard known as ...
Oct 06, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
Biden overhauls U.S. policy on marijuana, pardons prior federal offenses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday took executive action to change U.S. policy on marijuana, pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. "There are thousand...
Oct 06, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden listens to a guest doctor speak during a meeting of the Reproductive Healthcare Access Task Force in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
OSF announces new 100-bed behavioral health facility is coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A new deal is announced which OSF says will bring a brand new behavioral and mental health treatment center to the area, the state's largest anywhere south of Chicago. OSF announced an...
Oct 06, 2022 (OSF HealthCare)
Shooter contained in Dearborn, Michigan hotel, one hurt; police negotiating
UPDATED 2:49 P.M. (Reuters) -A shooter armed with a rifle opened fire inside a hotel in Dearborn, Michigan on Thursday, injuring at least one person, and police said they contained the suspect inside ...
Oct 06, 2022 Midwest Communications
Durbin latest to praise money for new PIA control tower
PEORIA, Ill. - The political victory lap continues in support of a big project long in the making for Peoria International Airport, and is slated for construction to start next year. Senator Dick Durb...
Oct 06, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden says he is evaluating alternatives after disappointing OPEC+ decision
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden expressed disappointment on Thursday over announced plans by OPEC+ nations to cut oil output and said the United States was looking at its alternatives....
Oct 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to media as he tours areas damaged by Hurricane Ian during a visit to Florida, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, U.S., October 5, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Tyson Foods moves corporate jobs to Arkansas in latest blow to Chicago
CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tyson Foods Inc is joining other corporate heavyweights in moving jobs out of Illinois. The biggest U.S. meat company by sales said on Wednesday it will relocate all corporate emplo...
Oct 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Tyson Chicken Nuggets, owned by Tyson Foods, are seen for sale in Queens, New York, U.S., November 16, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Illinois "Stranger Things" display allowed to reopen
PLAINFIELD, Ill. (WLS) - Things just got stranger for an Illinois neighborhood. A controversial "Stranger Things"-themed Halloween display in front of a Plainfield home is reopening this weekend. The ...
Oct 06, 2022 (WLS-TV)
California family kidnapped on Monday found dead, Sheriff says
(Reuters) -Four members of a California family, including an 8-month-old girl, were found dead in a rural area on Wednesday after they were abducted in the city of Merced on Monday, authorities said. ...
Oct 06, 2022 A Merced County Sheriff's Office poster shows the four family members kidnapped from central California, U.S. in this handout released on October 4, 2022. Merced County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
