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Update: Driver cited for wreck on I-74 ramp
(UPDATED 7:58 a.m. ) TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. -- The ramp from I-155 to I-74 westbound near Morton was blocked Monday morning with the clean up of an overturned semi. The accident happened shortly after ...
May 03, 2021 (25 News)
Collins: A threat of severe weather late Monday
PEORIA, Ill. -- Strong storms are expected to make their way into the Peoria area late Monday afternoon. News partner 25 News Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins predicts a line of potentially severe th...
May 03, 2021 Midwest Communications
U.S. administers 245.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 245,591,469 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Sunday. A t...
May 03, 2021 FILE PHOTO: Kaden Sweeten, 10, gets his coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as part of Moderna's pediatric vaccine trial in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on April 28, 2021. Velocity Clinical Research/Handout via REUTERS
Arson determined to be cause of Sunday morning fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- Arson has been determined to be the cause of a house fire at 2400 W Lincoln Sunday morning around 4:45 a.m. Heavy smoke was seen by first arriving crews from the front door and out of ...
May 02, 2021 Midwest Communications
Peoria Fire crews rescue entrapped driver from creek bed
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Firefighter/Paramedics responded to the 3500 block of N Dries Ln. Saturday afternoon just before 1:30 p.m. for a report of a vehicle that went through a ravine into a creek bed....
May 02, 2021 1470&100.3 WMBD/Kristina Leahy
Peoria Police investigating Friday night stabbing
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police are investigating a stabbing that took place Friday night in a parking lot in the 1200 block of S Western Ave. An adult male drove to a local hospital around 11:20 p.m. w...
May 02, 2021
Saturday morning fight turns into shots fired, injures two
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police responded to the area of the 1400 block of SW Adams St. around 1:15 a.m. Saturday morning regarding a ShotSpotter alert. Dispatch then informed police of several ShotSpot...
May 02, 2021 Peoria Police Department
State COVID roundup 4/30: vax avg drops again
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Thursday-Friday COVID-19 reporting period in Illinois brought another 3,000-plus case count. 3,207 people throughout the state tested positive. 33 died. The daily average for ...
Apr 30, 2021 Midwest Communications
Biden set to ban most travel to U.S. from India to limit COVID-19 spread
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to impose new travel restrictions on India starting Tuesday in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-U.S. citizens from entering ...
Apr 30, 2021 REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Former Bustos challenger King says she will run in '22
EAST MOLINE, Ill. -- On the same day her 2020 opponent announced she would be leaving Congress at the end of her term, Republican Esther Joy King announced her candidacy for the 17th District of Illin...
Apr 30, 2021 Esther for Congress
