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Man dead after Woodford County ATV accident
BAY VIEW GARDENS, Ill. - An East Peoria man is dead after an accident involving an ATV in Woodford County. 25 News reports the Woodford County Coroner has identified the victim as Ryan Pitts, 24. Pitt...
Mar 15, 2022 Midwest Communications
Crash on I-74 causes injuries
ELMWOOD, Ill. - Details are still sketchy about a crash on Interstate 74 in Peoria County involving three vehicles. 25 News reports Illinois State Police responded to the crash around 10:16 a.m. Tuesd...
Mar 15, 2022 1470-100.3 WMBD
Biden's Fed nominee Raskin withdraws after what he describes as 'baseless attacks'
UPDATED 3:38 P.M. (Reuters) -Sarah Bloom Raskin on Tuesday withdrew as President Joe Biden's nominee to become the top bank regulator at the Federal Reserve, one day after a key Democratic senator and...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominated to be vice chairman for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, looks on during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/Pool/File Photo
U.S. Senate approves bill that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent in 2023
UPDATED 2:48 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent starting in 2023, ending the twice-annual changing of clocks in a m...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A man runs near the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument at sunrise on the National Mall in Washington, U.S., September 19, 2019. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
Bartonville home damaged by kitchen fire
BARTONVILLE, Ill. - An investigation continues into an early morning fire Tuesday in Bartonville. Bartonville Fire says crews went to an area near Amsler and Treasure Streets around 1:00 a.m., and dis...
Mar 15, 2022 Midwest Communications
Fox News cameraman killed while reporting in Ukraine
UPDATED 1:17 P.M. (Reuters) - Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed in Ukraine after the vehicle in which he was traveling was struck by incoming fire, the U.S. network said on Tuesday. Zakr...
Mar 15, 2022 Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, who was killed in Ukraine after the vehicle in which he was traveling was struck by incoming fire, poses for a selfie with colleagues Steve Harrigan, Yonat Frilling and Ibrahim Hazboun in Kyiv, Ukraine in an undated photograph. FOX News Sunday/Handout via REUTERS
NATO to begin planning for more troops on eastern flank after Russia's Ukraine invasion
UPDATED: 7:50 P.M. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO is set to tell its military commanders on Wednesday to draw up plans for new ways to deter Russia following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, including more tr...
Mar 15, 2022 Firefighters work to put out a fire in a residential apartment building after it was hit by shelling as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
Peoria's 37th CANATHON is underway
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Area Anti-Hunger Coalition has partnered with Kroger in sponsoring the 2022 FoodShare CANATHON. The CANATHON runs through April 1, and collection bins have been set up in al...
Mar 15, 2022 Salvation Army USA West / CC
Police arrest suspect in shootings of homeless in Washington, DC and New York
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law enforcement authorities early Tuesday morning arrested a suspect in connection with shootings of homeless people in Washington, D.C., and New York, the police department in W...
Mar 15, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A woman walks with balloons by an area where NYPD police have marked off an area where a 43-year-old man was found dead on Sunday evening in New York City, U.S., March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Kyiv struck by Russian shelling, curfew announced
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian shelling struck Kyiv on Tuesday killing at least two people, authorities said, as invading forces tightened their grip on the Ukrainian capital and the mayor announced a 35-hou...
Mar 15, 2022 Rescuers work next to a residential building damaged by shelling, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this handout picture released March 15, 2022. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS
