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PPD: Officer injured in overnight crash
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria Police officer suffered minor injuries after being involved in a crash early Monday morning. Public Information Officer Semone Roth said just before 1:30 a.m., a car ran a red...
May 30, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
UPDATED: One person found dead at Summer Camp festival
UPDATE: 5:54 p.m. CHILLICOTHE, Ill. - We're learning more about a man who was found dead at Summer Camp this past Memorial Day weekend. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood identifies the deceased indi...
May 30, 2022 Highway Patrol Images / CC
Boat fire strikes Illinois River marina, injuring more than a dozen
SENECA, Ill. -- More than a dozen people are hurt following a boat fire reported not far down the Illinois River from Peoria this weekend. Illinois State Police reports their officers responded 4:26 p...
May 29, 2022 Midwest Communications
Russia says eastern Ukraine town of Lyman is under its full control
(Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that the eastern Ukrainian town of Lyman had fallen under the full control of Russian and Russian-backed forces in the region. Pro-Russian separa...
May 28, 2022 A satellite image shows damaged buildings and a tank on a road, in Lyman, Ukraine May 25, 2022. Satellite image 2022 Maxar Technologies/Handout via REUTERS
Honoring those who served on Memorial Day
PEORIA, Ill. - If it were up to Vietnam veteran Alfred Burnett, a member of Peoria American Legion Post 2, you might not be compelled to take a vacation or have a party this weekend, because it's Memo...
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Peoria, Tazewell Counties remain at "high" COVID spread levels, Woodford County drops to "low"
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The number of new COVID-19 cases in Illinois declined in the last week, but the Illinois Department of Public Health says the number of counties with "high" community spread went u...
May 28, 2022 (Illinois Department of Public Health)
Texas school shooting: Police 'wrong' for waiting to storm gunman as students pleaded for help
UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) - Frantic children called 911 at least half a dozen times from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, as some 20 officers waited...
May 28, 2022 A woman holds some flowers as a man kneels at a memorial in Town Square in front of the county courthouse, for victims of the Robb Elementary school shooting, three days after a gunman killed nineteen children and two adults, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello
Trump urges end to gun-free school zones, easier confinement of 'deranged' people
HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Friday argued the United States should make it easier to confine "deranged" people and eliminate gun-free school zones after a gunman kil...
May 28, 2022 A sign showing former U.S. President Donald Trump, who will be speaking at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum, stands posted inside the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Protests at NRA convention in Texas, but speakers reject new gun laws
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Protesters holding signs and crosses with photos of victims from the Texas elementary school shooting protested Friday outside the National Rifle Association's annual convention in ...
May 27, 2022 A person holds pictures of victims of the Texas shooting as they protest against gun laws outside the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Houston, Texas, U.S. May 27, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Man hit by excavator hospitalized in Peoria
UTICA, Ill. - A man working in LaSalle County has been brought to a hospital in Peoria after authorities say he was hit by an excavator. 25 News says the accident happened late Friday morning in Utica...
May 27, 2022 Audrey / CC
