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Remember America's fallen soldiers on Memorial Day
PEORIA, Ill. -- America's Gold Star Families, based in Peoria Heights, typically puts on a ceremony at the Gateway Building on the Peoria riverfront honoring soldiers who've given the ultimate sacrifi...
Julia Bradley May 28, 2021 Midwest Communications
Illinois Democrats roll out new legislative maps
PEORIA, Ill. -- Illinois' new legislative maps are out. And, for the first time, the maps have been drawn up by state politicians without the use of data from the U.S. Census. Republican State Rep. Ry...
Julia Bradley May 28, 2021

California rail yard gunman was 'highly disgruntled' over work, police say
(Reuters) -A transit employee who gunned down nine co-workers and killed himself at a Northern California rail yard was "highly disgruntled" long before carrying out the latest U.S. shooting rampage, ...
Julia Bradley May 28, 2021 Police secure the scene of a mass shooting at a rail yard run by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in San Jose, California, U.S. May 26, 2021. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva

Shooting in Peoria leaves one injured
PEORIA, Ill. -- One person was injured in a shooting late Thursday night in Peoria. Police said it happened around 10:45 p.m. near the intersection of Trewyn and Montana. Peoria Public Information Off...
Julia Bradley May 28, 2021 Midwest Communications

Fallen Capitol Police officer's mother urges senators to back probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The mother of a police officer who died after battling a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol is seeking meetings with Republican senators to urge them to vote for a commission to...
Dalton Kemper May 27, 2021 REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo

BU updates COVID guidelines
PEORIA, Ill. -- With Bradley University's summer break having started and concurrent summer class sessions about to begin, the university on Thursday released a series of new COVID-19 directions. The ...
Rick Hirschmann May 27, 2021 MWC-Bradley Campus 2020

Overnight shooting leaves one dead in Peoria, victim ID'ed
***UPDATE*** 5/27/21 3:45 P.M. 20-year-old Kandon Bonner has been identified as the victim. An autopsy showed Bonner suffered multiple gunshots to his thorax. _________________________________________...
Julia Bradley May 27, 2021 (25 News)

Next Morton Supt. picked
MORTON, Ill. -- Just two days after announcing Superintendent Jeff Hill would be retiring at the end of the 2021-2022 school year, Morton District 709 announced who will fill Hill's shoes. Assistant S...
Rick Hirschmann May 27, 2021

State COVID roundup 5/27: Fewer than 900 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Thursday reported 891 new cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 42 additional deaths. More than 63,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine...
Dalton Kemper May 27, 2021 Midwest Communications

Local COVID roundup 5/27: 3 additional deaths
PEORIA, Ill. -- After reporting zero area deaths related to COVID-19 on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Peoria City/County Health Department Thursday reported three such deaths. A Peoria County male in his...
Dalton Kemper May 27, 2021 Midwest Communications
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