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State Police reminds drivers about "Scott's Law" on anniversary of fatal crash that led to law
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - It's a problem no matter who becomes the victim, but Illinois State Police say they've seen far too many accidents this year where someone hit a squad car responding to an accident...
Dec 23, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD
East Peoria man dead after accident at Caterpillar Mapleton Foundry
MAPLETON, Ill. - An East Peoria man is dead after falling at Caterpillar's Mapleton Foundry. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Scott W. Adams, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene at around 9:4...
Dec 23, 2021 Caterpillar
Man gets 27 years in federal prison for child porn production
PEORIA, Ill. - An Iowa man was sentenced in a Peoria federal courtroom to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty in April to Production of Child Pornography. The U.S. Attorney's office says Michael ...
Dec 23, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Expert: mental health takes a toll during the holidays
PEORIA, Ill. - The holidays can be stressful enough for people battling mental illness, COVID-19 or not. Dave Mingus, licensed in Behavioral Health with UnityPoint's Unity Place, says in short, if you...
Dec 23, 2021 (25 News)
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to block release of White House records
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the release of White House records sought by the House of Representatives committee investigating ...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during his first post-presidency campaign rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio, U.S., June 26, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
Ex-Minnesota police officer found guilty of manslaughter in shooting of Daunte Wright
UPDATED 1:38 P.M. (Reuters) - A Minnesota jury on Thursday found former police officer Kimberly Potter guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic sto...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A poster of Daunte Wright is seen during a demonstration about the manslaughter trial of Kimberly Potter, a white former Minnesota police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, a Black man, whose April death sparked protests, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Nicole Neri
Proud Boys member pleads guilty to conspiring to obstruct Congress on Jan. 6
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A member of the far-right Proud Boys group pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy and obstructing Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's election on Jan. 6. Matthew G...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, 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/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
Cookie chain chooses East Peoria as first Central Illinois location
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - Another new business is coming to East Peoria, and it might be pretty delicious. Cullinan Properties says the first Central Illinois location of Crumbl Cookies will be in the Levee...
Dec 23, 2021 Crumbl Cookies
Lawmakers carjacked in Philadelphia and Chicago surburb
(Reuters) -Delaware state police have taken into custody five suspects after U.S. Representative Mary Gay Scanlon was robbed of her automobile at gunpoint in a Philadelphia park on Wednesday. The susp...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
FDA authorizes Merck's at-home antiviral COVID-19 pill
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized Merck & Co's antiviral pill for COVID-19 for certain high-risk adult patients, a day after giving the go-ahead to a similar...
Dec 23, 2021 FILE PHOTO: An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill, called molnupiravir and being developed by Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, is seen in this undated handout photo released by Merck & Co Inc and obtained by Reuters on October 26, 2021. Merck & Co Inc/Handout via REUTERS
