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Peoria Firefighters get training on dealing with live power lines
PEORIA, Ill. - A training provided to Peoria firefighters may be as important now as it's ever been. Firefighters Tuesday were being shown through Ameren how to deal with live power line situations th...
Nov 16, 2021 Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD
As Congress advances Democrats' tax plans, America's wealthy eye loopholes
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Congress looks to advance its $1.75 trillion spending package this week, wealthy individuals are already planning ways to avoid paying for it. Lawmakers are expected to vote on...
Nov 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator wears a "Tax the Rich" T-shirt during a national day of resistance to demand a safe, scientific, racially just and fully funded approach to reopening schools during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Illinois education leaders set to advance new teacher vaccine mandate
Peoria, Ill -- State education leaders are set to advance new rules for mandating vaccines for Illinois teachers. Of course, you will have a chance to review the rules before final approval. The ISBE ...
Nov 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
Expert: Infrastructure bill will be a boon for Central IL ag business
Peoria, Ill -- There is across-the-board approval among local business interests about the trillion dollar bi-partisan infrastructure bill. Many analysts and top executives agree it will help in a wid...
Nov 16, 2021 REUTERS/Mike Blake
Kasper: It's important to see family during the holidays
PEORIA, Ill. -- Thanksgiving and Christmas are all about family. Local Infectious Diseases Specialist Dr. Doug Kasper, with the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, says it's importan...
Nov 16, 2021 OakleyOriginals / CC
Biden promises candor, Xi greets 'old friend' in U.S.-China talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed their responsibility to the world to avoid conflict as the heads of the two top global economies gathered for hour...
Nov 16, 2021 U.S. President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, speaks virtually with Chinese leader Xi Jinping from the White House in Washington, U.S. November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Russian anti-satellite missile test endangers space station crew - NASA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on Monday generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space Station and will pose a hazard to sp...
Nov 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018. NASA/Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Court lottery gives Biden administration a chance to revive COVID vaccine mandate
(Reuters) - Lawsuits filed around the country challenging the Biden administration's workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule are expected to be consolidated in a single federal appeals court on Tuesday, givin...
Nov 16, 2021 FILE PHOTO: A man wears an anti-vaccine button as people and teachers protest against New York City mandated vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in front of the United States Court in Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
Arson deemed cause of an overnight apartment fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Fire crews were called just after 12 a.m. Tuesday to the 2100 block of N. Linn Street in Peoria. Firefighters found flames coming from a window on the second floor of the four story ap...
Nov 16, 2021 (25 News)
Peoria Salvation Army kicks off Tree of Lights campaign
PEORIA, Ill. - $1.7 million -- that's what the Peoria Salvation Army says it needs to get through the first part of next year. That's being raised through the annual "Tree of Lights" campaign. "That's...
Nov 15, 2021
