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Two arrested after stabbing incident with scissors
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents are out of jail after a weekend stabbing incident including a pair of scissors. Peoria Police say they arrested Demetrice Beach (not pictured), 30, for Domestic Bat...
Aug 22, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Jury weighs case against two accused of plot to kidnap Michigan governor
(Reuters) -A jury in Michigan began deliberations on Monday in the retrial of two men accused by the prosecution of devising an elaborate plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, though the defense c...
Aug 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer sits in a 2019 Chevrolet Traverse, assembled in Lansing, Michigan, at the General Motors display area during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook//File Photo
Woman in prison for death of infant gets more time for battery charge
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin woman who was just sentenced to prison for Involuntary Manslaughter just had some more time tacked on to that. Tazewell County Circuit Court records indicate Angel Vanduker, 21, ...
Aug 22, 2022 (25 News)
AAA/GasBuddy: Local gas prices decline
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices, while still pretty high, are continuing to make moves down in the Peoria area. GasBuddy.com says its survey of 148 stations in Peoria averaged a gallon of unleaded at $3.91,...
Aug 22, 2022 (Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Man gets federal prison for machine gun possession
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend a little more than three years in federal prison after having what prosecutors described as a "machine gun" in his possession. The U.S. Attorney's Office says Do...
Aug 22, 2022 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Fauci to step down as Biden's chief medical adviser, NIAID head
UPDATED 12:59 P.M. (Reuters) -Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official who became the face of America's COVID-19 pandemic response under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, annou...
Aug 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Officials: It was a good year for the IL State Fair
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Official numbers aren't available yet, but all indications point to a successful Illinois State Fair. As the fair wrapped up Sunday, State Fair Manager Rebecca Clark said they are...
Aug 22, 2022 (Illinois State Fair via Facebook)
S.Korea, U.S. begin largest military drills in years amid N.Korea backlash
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea and the United States began their largest joint military drills in years on Monday with a resumption of field training, officials said, as the allies seek to tighten readi...
Aug 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: The South Korean and American flags fly next to each other at Yongin, South Korea, August 23, 2016. Picture taken on August 23, 2016. Courtesy Ken Scar/U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Manier asks residents to "Shop Local" to keep Washington businesses thriving
WASHINGTON, Ill. -- Washington, Illinois' local economy is made up of many small, locally-owned businesses. A few of them have struggled financially to the point that they're closing their doors. Wash...
Aug 22, 2022 (City of Washington Facebook)
Daughter of ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue killed in suspected car bomb attack
(Reuters) -The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on S...
Aug 22, 2022 Investigators work at the site of a suspected car bomb attack that killed Darya Dugina, daughter of ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin, in the Moscow region, Russia August 21, 2022, in this still image taken from video. Investigative Committee of Russia/Handout via REUTERS
