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Police: dozens of catalytic converter thefts locally since October
PEORIA, Ill. - Something reportedly happening nationwide is definitely happening in the Peoria area, and probably more than police are hearing about. It's the theft of catalytic converters from area v...
Dec 08, 2021 Seth Sawyers / CC
Pritzker: No to NYC-style vaccine mandate in Illinois
CHICAGO, Ill. - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says the state is doing what it can to try and stop the spread of COVID-19, even as an Omicron variant case has been linked to the Chicago area. Pritzker ...
Dec 08, 2021 Dalton Kemper/1470-100.3 WMBD
Woman faces new charge in Peoria hit-and-run
PEORIA, Ill. -- Karrie Lynne Brunswig now faces four charges related to the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Troy Erving in Peoria. According to court documents, Brunswig was indicted Tuesday on an ad...
Dec 08, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail
New memorial honors late Fulton County Sheriffs Deputy
LEWISTOWN, Ill. - A new memorial at the Fulton County Sheriffs Department honors late Sheriffs Deputy Troy Chisum. Chisum died after being shot by a man holed up in a house in June of 2019. Now, a mem...
Dec 08, 2021 (25 News)
Opening statements begin in trial of MN police officer who killed Daunte Wright
(Reuters) - A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Black motorist in April, triggering protests against police brutality, will go on trial on Wednesday as opening statements to t...
Dec 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A poster of Daunte Wright is seen after the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial was announced at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., April 20, 2021. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi
Biden travels to Missouri to highlight U.S. infrastructure law
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Kansas City, Missouri on Wednesday to draw attention to his $1 trillion program to invest in infrastructure. Biden will visit the Kansas ...
Dec 08, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden walks from Marine One to the Oval Office, at the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 2, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/Files
Pfizer vaccine neutralizes Omicron with three shots
(Reuters) - BioNTech and Pfizer said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralize the new Omicron variant in a laboratory test and they could deliver an Omicron-ba...
Dec 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A vial labelled with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen in this illustration picture taken March 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
U.S. House passes bill to speed passage of debt limit increase
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives late on Tuesday approved a measure allowing Congress to fast-track legislation raising the federal government's debt limit and stave off a poten...
Dec 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters following the Senate Democrats weekly policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 30, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/Files
Trump ex-chief of staff Meadows ends cooperation with Capitol riot panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Mark Meadows, who served as former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, has decided not to cooperate with the congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan...
Dec 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters following a television interview, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago
U.S. boosters surge to all-time high on Omicron fears
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are lining up for booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines at a record pace, with concerns about the newly-detected Omicron coronavirus variant spurring millions to get shot...
Dec 08, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A vial and a syringe are seen in front of a displayed United States' flag and words "Omicron SARS-CoV-2" in this illustration taken, November 27, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo
