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PPD responds to armed carjacking Monday morning
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called around 6:30 a.m. Monday to the Westlake Shopping Center on reports of an armed carjacking. Peoria Public Information Officer Semone Roth with the PPD says a m...
Dec 13, 2021 MWC-PPD
First UK patient has died from omicron variant
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday the first patient had died after contracting the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, Sky news reported. The British Health secret...
Dec 13, 2021 FILE PHOTO: An ambulance drives past St Thomas' Hospital as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, Britain, December 12, 2021. REUTERS/May James
Chris Wallace leaving Fox News for CNN+ streaming service
(Reuters) -Veteran television journalist Chris Wallace announced on Sunday that he is leaving Fox News after about 18 years and he is set to join rival CNN's upcoming streaming service as an anchor. W...
Dec 13, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Debate moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first 2020 presidential campaign debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020. Olivier Douliery/Pool via REUTERS
Kentucky resumes counting the dead from barrage of tornadoes
MAYFIELD, Ky. (Reuters) - Rescue workers resumed combing through debris on Monday in the scant hope of finding survivors from a battery of deadly tornadoes that tore through six states, with Kentucky ...
Dec 13, 2021 Damage and debris is seen after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through Bowling Green Kentucky, U.S. December 12, 2021. REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
Arson cause of overnight fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Emergency crews responded around 1:45 a.m. Monday to reports of a structure fire in the 1000 block of E. Behrends Avenue in Peoria. Firefighters found a detached single car garage engu...
Dec 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Six dead, no hope of more survivors, after tornadoes destroy Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (Reuters) -Six Amazon.com Inc workers were confirmed dead on Saturday after a series of tornadoes roared through a warehouse near St. Louis, ripping off its roof and causing 11-inch...
Dec 12, 2021 REUTERS/Drone Base
Driver rescued from apparent hit-and-run accident
PEORIA, Ill. - One driver was trapped inside one of two vehicles involved in a Peoria accident. Peoria firefighters responded to a call of a two-vehicle crash at 8:26 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of...
Dec 12, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Mason City woman injured, one man dead, after Sangamon County crash
CANTRALL, Ill. - A Sangamon County crash claimed the life of a Greenview, Illinois man and injured a Mason City woman. The crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. Friday on Route 29 south of Cantrall, about 1...
Dec 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Dozens killed as tornadoes rip through Kentucky, other U.S. states
UPDATED 9:52 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A devastating swarm of tornadoes ripped through Kentucky and five other U.S. states, killing dozens of people and leaving a trail of destroyed homes, factories ...
Dec 12, 2021 A mailbox stands in front of where a home once stood after a devastating outbreak of tornadoes ripped through several U.S. states in Earlington, Kentucky, U.S. December 11, 2021. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
High wind gusts, some damage reported in Tazewell County following Friday storms
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - The severe weather system claiming lives in Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and in Edwardsville, Illinois didn't cause issues that severe in this area, but they left their mark....
Dec 11, 2021 Midwest Communications
