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UPDATE: Two children hospitalized with minor injuries after school bus crash
UPDATE: 12:07 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. -- We're learning more about a traffic crash that involved a Peoria Public School bus this morning. According to Peoria Police, two of the kids on board the school bus ...
May 17, 2022 (25 News)
California church shooter upset over Taiwan-China tensions -police
(Reuters) -The man accused of killing a doctor and wounding five other people in a shooting at a Taiwanese-American church banquet in California methodically planned the attack because he was upset ov...
May 17, 2022 A police car is seen after a deadly shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, U.S. May 15, 2022. REUTERS/David Swanson
UPDATE: PPD says missing woman is found
UPDATE: 12:08 p.m. Peoria Police now say Donita Purcell has been found and is doing well. ------------------------------- PEORIA, Ill. -- Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 4...
May 17, 2022 (Peoria Police Dept.)
Delay in court proceedings for teens charged with rural Mackinaw murder
PEKIN, Ill. - The case of four teenagers accused in a murder-for-hire plot in Tazewell County is being delayed again. This time, court records indicate, because attorneys for one of the teens -- Andre...
May 16, 2022 (25 News)
Man found dead while on morel mushroom-hunting trip
LACON, Ill. - A man from Washington who was reported missing was found dead while gone on a morel mushroom-hunting trip. 25 News reports the Marshall County Sheriffs Department identified the victim a...
May 16, 2022 Midwest Communications
East Peoria holds police officer memorial ceremony
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Before last year, it had been several years since the East Peoria Police Department had a memorial ceremony. They've started doing it again, in part to continue to remember one off...
May 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Amber Heard says she feared she would not survive Johnny Depp marriage
(Reuters) -"Aquaman" actor Amber Heard told jurors in a defamation case on Monday that she filed for divorce from Johnny Depp in 2016 because she worried she would not survive physical abuse by him. U...
May 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Amber Heard returns to the courtroom after lunch break at Fairfax County Circuit Court during a defamation case against her by ex-husband, actor Johnny Depp, in Fairfax, Virginia, U.S., May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/Pool
Sweden's plans for NATO membership hit snag as Turkey says no
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden will formally apply for NATO membership in the next few days, Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday, but its accession process, and that of Finland, hit a snag ...
May 16, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist speaks during a news conference at the military base in Adazi, Latvia April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo
Gordon-Booth reacts to potential fund sweeps included in state budget
PEORIA, Ill. - If the state budget includes a fund sweep by Governor JB Pritzker to help pay for a new 988 mental health hotline, it's news to State Representative Jehan Gordon-Booth. We talked with G...
May 16, 2022 (Illinois General Assembly)
Disaster mitigation continues at stricken Bio-Urja Renewables plant
PEORIA, Ill. -- Asked where this emergency ranks for him on a scale of 1 to 10, Peoria's Interim Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger tells WMBD News, "...this would be an eleven." Sollberger, his firefighters...
May 16, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
