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Peoria crews battle early morning blaze
PEORIA, Ill. -- Crews responded around 3:30 a.m. Thursday to a house fire in the area of S. Charles and W. Hayes Streets in Peoria. En route to the scene, firefighters were told that someone may have ...
Feb 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
State Police: Record amounts, and record values, of drugs seized statewide
METAMORA, Ill. - $71 million. That's the value Illinois State Police says is of 400 percent more fentanyl, 260 percent more heroin, and 190 percent more meth seized by law enforcement, among other ill...
Feb 23, 2022 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Three days, three stolen cars, eight juveniles detained in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have offered details on three recent criminal cases, all involving juvenile suspects and one involving an infant victim. Between Saturday and Monday, PPD says officers re...
Feb 23, 2022 (Midwest Communications)
No foul play suspected in Hanna City infant death, but autopsy pending
PEORIA, Ill. -- There is currently no evidence of foul play in the death of an infant, discovered in Peoria County on Tuesday. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood confirms earlier reports about the ba...
Feb 23, 2022
Another marijuana dispensary is approved near Northwoods Mall
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria area residents will have access to another marijuana dispensary, but some local elected leaders aren't very happy about it's location. It will go in along Brandywine Drive near ...
Feb 23, 2022 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Pritzker talks property tax relief and masks
DECATUR, Ill. - Governor JB Pritzker was in central Illinois Wednesday, giving his proposal to provide a one-time up to $300 property tax rebate to Illinoisans a push But in doing so, Pritzker also se...
Feb 23, 2022 State of Illinois/Illinois Information Service (file)
Styx and George Thorogood making a stop in Peoria this spring
PEORIA, Ill. -- Rock legends Styx and George Thorogood are coming to the Peoria Civic Center. The show is slated for May 10 at the Civic Center Theater. Styx's show draws from over four decades of hit...
Feb 23, 2022 Josh Hrach / CC
U.S. truckers plan pandemic protest, inspired by Canadian counterparts
ADELANTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city for weeks, U.S. truckers on Wednesday plan to embark on a 2,500-mile cross-country drive towards Wash...
Feb 23, 2022 Truckers and their supporters start to gather before a convoy leaves the following morning bound for the nation's capital to protest against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Adelanto, California, U.S., February 22, 2022. REUTERS/David Swanson
Jury to decide if Minneapolis police violated George Floyd's rights
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) - A jury was due to begin deliberating on Wednesday on whether three former Minneapolis police officers deprived George Floyd of his constitutional rights by failing to come ...
Feb 23, 2022 A police vehicle is seen as the Minneapolis Police Department’s fifth precinct remains fenced and barricaded as voters decide whether to abolish the police department and replace it with a new department of public safety in the wake of George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Nicole Neri
PPS meeting canceled/rescheduled over crowd refusal to wear masks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Parents and teachers who wanted to talk about school masking requirements were shut out as the Peoria Public Schools board meeting was abruptly canceled and rescheduled Tuesday night. ...
Feb 23, 2022 (25 News)
