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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)
U.S. House passes crucial stopgap government funding bill, avoiding partial shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bill funding the federal government through Dec. 16 passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, avoiding an embarrassing partial shutdown less than six weeks before the...
Sep 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: General view of the U.S. Capitol as the House of Representatives takes up debate of U.S. President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Grand jury files new charges in two fatal 2021 crashes
PEORIA, Ill. - Charged filed by a Peoria County grand jury this week include ones filed in connection to two fatal car crashes from 2021. It's not known when a Peoria man who is in state prison will b...
Sep 30, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Illinois Department of Corrections)
Works of Andy Warhol on display in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- In 1983, American artist Andy Warhol created the Endangered Species series, which depicts ten animals that were recognized in the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The screen prints, pre...
Sep 30, 2022 (Courtesy of Peoria Riverfront Museum)
U.S. says Army major and wife tried to leak military health data to Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, th...
Sep 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: An American flag waves outside the U.S. Department of Justice Building in Washington, U.S., December 2, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File Photo
U.S. judge does not require Trump to attest that FBI's list of seized records is accurate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday ruled that former President Donald Trump does not have to provide the court with a sworn statement attesting to whether he believes the list of items...
Sep 30, 2022 Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 3, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Hurricane Ian slams South Carolina after deadly march across Florida
UPDATED 5:22 P.M. FORT MYERS, Fla. (Reuters) -A resurgent Hurricane Ian slammed into the South Carolina coast on Friday afternoon, making another landfall after a deadly march across the Florida penin...
Sep 30, 2022 Workers remove storm shutters from a restaurant after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction in Cape Coral, Florida, U.S., September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Alleged animal abuser back in jail
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins confirms that a man charged in connection with an animal cruelty case has been arrested. Watkins says Nicholas Prince, of Dunlap, was arreste...
Sep 30, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Uvalde school district, others face first lawsuit over mass shooting
(Reuters) - Parents of three children who survived the Uvalde, Texas school shooting have sued the school district, several former officials, the company that manufactured the gun used in the rampage ...
Sep 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Weathered signs, candles and stuffed animals remain at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School the day after the video showing the May shooting inside the school released, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S., July 13, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
