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Five-year child cancer patient gets to go home
PEORIA, Ill. - A rainy day in Peoria Wednesday didn't stop a "celebration" from happening, when a patient got to leave OSF Children's Hospital of Illinois after five years. OSF Saint Francis employees...
Mar 30, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Parents arrested in death of eight-year-old boy
UPDATED 9:26 p.m. PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police now say the parents of an eight-year-old boy have been arrested in connection to the boy's death. Police say following questioning, Brandon Walker, 40, a...
Mar 30, 2022 (Peoria County Jail)
Bruce Willis to retire from acting after medical diagnosis
UPDATED 1:19 p.m. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -"Die Hard" franchise star Bruce Willis will retire from his acting career after being diagnosed with aphasia, a disease that is "impacting his cognitive abilit...
Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Bruce Willis attends the European premiere of "Glass" in London, Britain January 9, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
Russia bombards Kyiv outskirts, Chernihiv despite promise to scale back
MALA ROHAN/NEAR IRPIN, Ukraine (Reuters) - Russian forces bombarded the outskirts of Kyiv and a besieged city in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, a day after promising to scale down operations there in ...
Mar 30, 2022 Ukrainian service members walk on the front line near Kyiv as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukraine March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Apartment complex fire now ruled arson; residents react
PEORIA, Ill. - A fire at an apartment complex early Tuesday morning is now being investigated as an arson. Peoria Fire officials say evidence in an office area of Lexington Hills apartments on the edg...
Mar 30, 2022 Peoria Fire Department via Facebook
Senate Democrats propose legislation to help IL families financially
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Senate Democrats are pushing a package of bills that they say will help get Illinois families back on their feet. The legislation includes an expansion of the state's Earned Incom...
Mar 30, 2022 MWC
U.S. astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts return home from ISS
ALMATY (Reuters) -A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts safely landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after leaving the International Space Station aboard the same capsule despite heightened antagoni...
Mar 30, 2022 The Soyuz MS-19 space capsule carrying crew members of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, descends beneath a parachute in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan March 30, 2022, in this still image taken from video. Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS
Collins becomes first Republican to back U.S. Supreme Court pick Jackson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Susan Collins on Wednesday became the first Republican to declare support for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, further boosting her pro...
Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) meets with U.S. Supreme Court nominee and federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Potential apartment complex deal gets push back from North Peoria residents
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Prairie Vista apartment complex in North Peoria could be changing hands and getting a facelift, all to the tune of $65 million. But the deal comes with some requirements, getting p...
Mar 30, 2022 (25 News)
Moscow welcomes written Ukrainian demands but says no sign of breakthrough
(Reuters) -The Kremlin on Wednesday welcomed the fact that Kyiv has set out its demands for an end to the conflict in Ukraine in written form, but said there was no sign of a breakthrough yet. Kremlin...
Mar 30, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a joint news conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow, Russia February 18, 2022. Sputnik/Sergey Guneev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
