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Federal prison time for Pekin man on meth charge
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man is going to federal prison for more than a decade for having methamphetamine in his possession two years ago, and admitting he had just been released from prison when he had...
Dec 02, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. to restart Trump-era border program forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico
(Reuters) - The Biden administration will restart a controversial Trump-era border program that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration hearings, in keeping with a federal court o...
Dec 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A member of the Border Patrol's Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR) observes the border wall in Sunland Park, New Mexico, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
UPDATED: One arrested after earlier fire death now declared a homicide investigation in Peoria's East Bluff
UPDATE: 12:10 P.M. Peoria Police confirm Tahir Goodman, 28, has been arrested in connection with the case, and is being charged with one count of First-Degree Murder, and two counts of Aggravated Arso...
Dec 02, 2021 1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail
U.S. to require private health insurance companies cover at-home COVID-19 tests
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will require private health insurance companies to reimburse customers for the cost of over-the-counter at-home COVID-19 tests under new measures to combat t...
Dec 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at-home test kit made by Lucira Health, newly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization, sits on a table at a Sutter Health lab in San Carlos, California, U.S. November 18, 2020. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino
As shutdown looms, U.S. lawmakers agree on funding government through Feb. 18
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress have reached agreement to fund federal agencies until Feb. 18, House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro said on Thursday, as they sc...
Dec 02, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, U.S., on midterm election day, November 6, 2018. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan/File Photo
Vacant home catches fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria home went up in flames early Thursday morning. Around 3:15 a.m., firefighters arrived to find fire and heavy smoke coming from all sides of the vacant home at 925 S. Greenlawn...
Dec 02, 2021 (25 News)
Supreme Court conservatives appear willing to gut abortion rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday signaled a willingness to dramatically curtail abortion rights in America and perhaps overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wad...
Dec 02, 2021 Anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights activists protest outside the Supreme Court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Peoria Riverfront Museum event also a fundraiser for Lebanon relief
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria Riverfront Museum is calling it an "unprecedented partnership" that will help the home country of a significant portion of the city's population. "From Peoria to Lebanon" is ...
Dec 01, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
Concern about soybeans at Greater Peoria Farm Show
PEORIA, Ill. - The pandemic keeps causing concerns in the agricultural community, but an expert says there's a reason to be optimistic. Todd Hultman is a grain market analyst with DTN, and says corn p...
Dec 01, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
U.S. reports first case of Omicron variant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States identified its first case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant in California, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. The perso...
Dec 01, 2021 Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
