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Two arrested following shooting incident at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say two people were arrested after shots were fired inside one apartment Monday night, later learning that two apartment were actually struck by shots. Police were called ...
May 03, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Victim identified in fatal East Peoria-area accident
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The Tazewell County Coroner has identified the victim in Monday's fatal crash near East Peoria involving a car and a motorcycle. Coroner Charles Hanley says preliminary autopsy res...
May 03, 2022 (25 News)
Schumer says he is aiming to hold vote next week on bill to codify abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats will put forward a bill that will codify abortion rights into law this week, with a vote taking place next week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said at a ...
May 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) listens during a news conference about legislative efforts to lower gas prices, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
LaHood, Bustos react to leak of Supreme Court draft decision
UPDATED 1:53 p.m. WASHINGTON, D.C. - He says he wants to protect the "sanctity of Life," but Congressman Darin LaHood says he's troubled by how most of America found out about how the Supreme Court ma...
May 03, 2022 1470/100.3 WMBD
Another Peoria Starbucks location looks to unionize
PEORIA, Ill. - Another Peoria Starbucks location wants to unionize -- not long after employees at the Starbucks in Campustown voted to do the same thing. Workers United says "an overwhelming majority"...
May 03, 2022 Paul Bischoff / CC
Pritzker weighs in on high court's draft to overturn Roe v. Wade
CHICAGO -- Gov. J-B Pritzker on Tuesday spoke out against overturning Roe v. Wade, affirming reproductive rights in Illinois. Pritzker condemned the Supreme Court draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade...
May 03, 2022 (State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service)
U.S. Supreme Court confirms draft ruling overturning abortion rights authentic
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that a draft ruling indicating the court may overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide was au...
May 03, 2022 Pro-abortion and anti-abortion demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the leak of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito preparing for a majority of the court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision later this year, in Washington, U.S., May 3, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Rivermen suffer setback in Game 3 of the President's Cup Finals
ROANOKE, VA - The Peoria Rivermen hoped to wrap up the President's Cup Finals with the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs on Monday night at the Berglund Center, but took a 4-3 loss. The Rivermen still lead the ...
May 03, 2022 (Peoria Rivermen Hockey)
Warrant issued for Alabama corrections officer who vanished with jail escapee
(Reuters) - Authorities searching for an escaped murder suspect in Alabama issued an arrest warrant on Monday for the female corrections officer who vanished with him from jail and was initially feare...
May 03, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Evacuees from Mariupol steel plant head for Ukrainian-controlled Zaporizhzhia
ZAPORIZHZHIA/MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine hoped a first column of evacuees from the ruins of a steel works in Russian-occupied Mariupol would reach the city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, and hos...
May 03, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises above a plant of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine May 2, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko/File Photo
