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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
Stoller keeps heat on Democrats regarding COVID-19 debt repayment plan
PEORIA, Ill. - Republican leaders in the Illinois Senate are continuing to say the way Democrats are spending federal COVID-19-related money to pay down various debts, including in the state's Unemplo...
Mar 28, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Putin does not seem ready for compromise on Ukraine -U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin does not appear ready to make compromises to end the war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said on Monday as Ukraine and Russia were preparing f...
Mar 28, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with government members via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia March 23, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo
2-year-old boy dies after UTV crash that killed two others
PEORIA, Ill. -- A two year old child involved in an already deadly UTV crash in Tazewell County earlier this month has reportedly himself died from injuries sustained in the crash. The update is accor...
Mar 28, 2022 Midwest Communications
