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Sex addiction may have driven suspect in Georgia spa shootings
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The suspect in the fatal shooting of eight people at day spas in and around Atlanta indicated he had issues with sexual addiction and the shootings may have not been motivated by r...
Mar 17, 2021 Crisp County Sheriff's Office in Cordele, Georgia, U.S. March 16, 2021.
State COVID roundup 3/17: Over 1,600 new cases
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Wednesday reported 1,655 new and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois, including 17 additional deaths. The new case count is down...
Mar 17, 2021 Midwest Communications
Second suspect arrested in connection with late January homicide
PEORIA, Ill. -- A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a late January shooting that left one person dead in Peoria. 25-year-old Jamere Laster was found by United States Marshals Fugitiv...
Mar 17, 2021 Peoria Police Department
Peoria Walgreens held up Tuesday night
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police were called just after 7 p.m. Tuesday to the Walgreens in the 2300 block of War Memorial Drive on reports of an armed robbery. Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said ...
Mar 17, 2021 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
U.S. facing biggest migrant surge in 20 years: Homeland Security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration rac...
Mar 17, 2021 A migrant child, asylum-seeking from Central America, who was airlifted from Brownsville to El Paso, Texas, and deported from the U.S. with his family, rests on chairs inside the office of the Center for Integral Attention to Migrants (CAIM) in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Eight killed, including six women of Asian descent, in Atlanta-area shootings; suspect arrested
(Reuters) - Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead in a string of attacks on Atlanta-area day spas on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the shootings was ar...
Mar 17, 2021 Crime scene tape is seen outside Aromatherapy Spa after shootings at a massage parlor and two day spas in the Atlanta area, in Georgia, U.S. March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry
EP Council eyes road upgrade project
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- East Peoria City Council on Tuesday night gave preliminary approval to a traffic project along IL-116. It would extend from just north of Interstate 74 through the intersection wi...
Mar 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
Pekin man sentenced to 47 years in prison for sexual exploitation of a minor
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Pekin man has been sentenced to 47 years in prison after entering a guilty plea for sexual exploitation of a minor. Harold L. Williams, 40, was on federal supervised release when he ...
Mar 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
$10M water project coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Public water throughout Peoria Metro is getting a $10 million upgrade. Illinois American Water announced Tuesday afternoon it's investing the money to replace 4.5 miles of water main, ...
Mar 16, 2021 1470-100.3 WMBD
Local COVID roundup 3/16: Hospital bed usage on the rise
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria City/County Health Department Tuesday reported 35 patients with COVID-19 were in area hospitals, up from Monday's total of 27. 11 of the patients in area hospitals on Tuesda...
Mar 16, 2021 Midwest Communications
