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Bond set for teen charged in Peoria's 18th homicide
PEORIA, Ill. - A teenager is remains in custody on $2 million bond after he was charged with committing the city's 18th homicide almost two weeks ago. The 16-year-old male -- who is not yet being name...
Oct 01, 2022 Photo courtesy of 25 News
Florida, Carolinas count the cost of Hurricane Ian
FORT MYERS, Fla./CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) -Florida, North and South Carolina were on Saturday trying to recover from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Ian, after one of the most powerful storms e...
Oct 01, 2022 Stranded shrimp boats are seen in a marina after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, U.S., September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
PPD seeks info after homeless man's body is found in Peoria alleyway
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have launched a death investigation and are seeking the public's help in the wake of the discovery of a homeless man's dead body late Thursday. PPD says officers were cal...
Sep 30, 2022 Midwest Communications
Russia vetoes U.S.-led resolution on Moscow's proclaimed annexations, China abstains
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution introduced by the United States and Albania condemning Moscow's proclaimed annexation of parts of Ukraine, with Russia's ...
Sep 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a press conference with India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, U.S., September 27, 2022. Saul Loeb/Pool via REUTERS
Bond set for man charged in West Peoria double homicide
UPDATED 4:46 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - More information is coming from both the coroner and the court following Thursday's suspected double-homicide in West Peoria. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has i...
Sep 30, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Pepper spray used in fights at Peoria middle school
PEORIA, Ill. - Officials with Peoria Public Schools say security personnel used pepper spray to diffuse several fights at a middle school Thursday. District 150 issued a statement indicating the fight...
Sep 30, 2022 (Peoria Public Schools via Facebook)
Bartonville Police: Fundraising mailer may be scam
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - Bartonville Police believe a fundraising mailer that at least one resident claims they got is a scam. Police say the resident approached them Friday after receiving mail identified...
Sep 30, 2022 (Bartonville Police via Facebook)
Defiant Putin proclaims Ukrainian annexation, vows war win
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) - A defiant Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia's annexation of a swathe of Ukraine in a pomp-filled Kremlin ceremony, promising Moscow would triumph in its "special milit...
Sep 30, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Denis Pushilin, Leonid Pasechnik, Vladimir Saldo, Yevgeny Balitsky, who are the Russian-installed leaders in Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, attend a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that were condemned by Kyiv and governments worldwide, in the Georgievsky Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, September 30, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS
State: Zero counties at 'high' spread; new cases down again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department of Public Health says there is continued improvement statewide when it comes to COVID-19. State officials say as of Friday, 10,945 new cases of the virus we...
Sep 30, 2022 (Centers for Disease Control)
Grand jury files charges after Peoria Speedway brawl injures young boy
PEORIA, Ill. - A Bureau County man has been charged by a grand jury in Peoria with punching a young boy during a larger brawl at the Peoria Speedway in late-July. Anthony Hickman, 27, of Princeton fac...
Sep 30, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
