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Space heater blamed for overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria firefighters responded just after 1 a.m. Monday to reports of a house fire in the area of N. California and E. Ravine. Crews arrived to find heavy fire coming from a second stor...
Jan 24, 2022 Midwest Communications
Fire at Dunlap High School
DUNLAP, Ill. - Firefighters from Dunlap and three other area departments responded to a fire at Dunlap High School. The fire was reported around 6:45 p.m. Saturday. According to a post on the Dunlap H...
Jan 23, 2022
Deployment ceremony for Illinois service members
Deployment ceremony for Illinois service members NORMAL, Ill. - (25 News) - A deployment ceremony was held Saturday as hundreds of Illinois servicemen and women head to Africa Sunday as part of Operat...
Jan 23, 2022 25 News
Peoria police release results of latest anti-violence initiative
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria has released a third update of his department's anti-violence initiative. Echevarria, in a news release, said Peoria police, along with the Illinois ...
Jan 23, 2022 MWC-Peoria Police Media Release
First part of $200 million U.S. defense aid arrives in Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) - The first shipment of the United States' $200 million security support package for Ukraine arrived in Kyiv, the U.S. Embassy said on Saturday. The delivery followed U.S. Secretary of ...
Jan 22, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv, Ukraine January 19, 2022. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS
Phil Luciano leaves Journal Star after 33 years
PEORIA, Ill. - He's not calling it a career; but after 33 years at the Peoria Journal Star, columnist and reporter Phil Luciano has left the building for the last time. Luciano -- a former host at WMB...
Jan 22, 2022 Peoria Journal Star
'Our city against the killers,' New York mayor says after policeman killed
(Reuters) -One New York City police officer was killed and another was fighting for his life after the pair were shot Friday while responding to a domestic violence call, authorities said. Neither of ...
Jan 22, 2022 Emergency personnel respond at the scene where NYPD officers were shot while responding to a domestic violence call in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, U.S., January 21, 2022. REUTERS/Lloyd Mitchell
PPS Board to consider modified 2022-2023 calendar Monday
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Public School Board will be asked Monday night to approve a modified calendar for the coming school year. Such a calendar has been tested this year at Harrison Community Lear...
Jan 22, 2022 (From Peoria Public Schools)
'No SALT no deal': Democrats vow to block Build Back Better bill without tax break
(Reuters) - Several U.S. House members from President Joe Biden's Democratic Party are threatening to block a renewed push for his Build Back Better spending bill if it does not include the expansion ...
Jan 21, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden waits for reporters to depart after delivering his opening remarks to a virtual meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Next two 'Mission: Impossible' movies delayed until 2023, 2024
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The seventh and eighth movies in the "Mission: Impossible" franchise starring Tom Cruise have been delayed until 2023 and 2024 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, producers Paramo...
Jan 21, 2022 FILE PHOTO: Actor Tom Cruise is seen on the set of "Mission Impossible 7" while filming in Rome, Italy October 6, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi
