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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)
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
