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Crews battle fire at Lexington Hills Apts.
PEORIA, Ill. -- Firefighters were called around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday to the the Lexington Hills Apartments on W. Oakcrest Drive in Peoria on reports of a fire. Fire Battalion Chief Lore Baxter said when ...
Mar 29, 2022 Peoria Fire Department via Facebook
Biden to broach Russia's war in Ukraine with Singapore PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden plans to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine and China's role in the Indo-Pacific with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore at the White House o...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden responds to a question about Ukraine during an event to announce his budget proposal for fiscal year 2023, in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
U.S. Capitol attack probe may seek interview with Justice Thomas' wife
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol may seek to interview Virginia Thomas, a Republican activist and wife of Supreme Court J...
Mar 29, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (L) and his wife Virginia Thomas (R) exit following the Red Mass, a service to mark the beginning of this year's Supreme Court term, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington October 5, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Apartment fire contained to balcony in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria fire crews were called just before 10 p.m. Monday to an apartment complex on W. Candletree Drive on reports of a fire on the second floor. Fire Battalion Chief Lore Baxter said ...
Mar 29, 2022 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Two arrested after Chuck E. Cheese brawl over the weekend
PEORIA, Ill. -- A fight at the Peoria Chuck E. Cheese on Saturday night led to arrests. Police said one adult and one juvenile were taken into custody at the family restaurant and the night before 6 p...
Mar 29, 2022 Mike Mozart / CC
One dead following fatal Tazewell County crash
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - One person is dead and another person is injured after a vehicle crashed in Tazewell County Monday morning. The Tazewell County Sheriffs Department says a 38-year-old woman from Ma...
Mar 28, 2022 25 News
Academy weighs possible action against Will Smith over Oscars slap
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The group that hands out the Oscars on Monday condemned Will Smith's slap of presenter Chris Rock at Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony and said it had started a formal revi...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Will Smith (R) hits Chris Rock as Rock spoke on stage during the 94th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Metamora man dead after Saturday crash
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - An investigation continues into a crash in rural Woodford County Saturday afternoon that claimed the life of a resident of Metamora. 25 News reports the Woodford County Coroner...
Mar 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
Morton nursing home fined by state
MORTON, Ill. - A nursing home in Morton has been fined by the state after a resident somehow got out and was found later near Interstate 155. A report from the Illinois Department of Public Health say...
Mar 28, 2022 Illinois Department of Public Health
Trump likely committed felony with plan to obstruct Congress, U.S. judge rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" committed a felony by trying to pressure his vice president to obstruct Congress and overtu...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo
