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UPDATE: Victim of fatal crash identified/arrest made
UPDATE 6:53 a.m. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim of the crash Friday night in the 100 block of S. Western Avenue in Peoria as 30-year-old Cherish Coleman. One of the vehi...
Feb 13, 2021 Midwest Communications
Peoria Salvation Army raises nearly $2 million during Tree of Lights
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Peoria Salvation Army Friday announced a successful Tree of Lights Campaign which raised money to support people struggling to get by in the Peoria area. The 2020 campaign in Peori...
Feb 12, 2021 (Salvation Army Heartland Division)
Trump lawyers portray impeachment trial as Democratic witch hunt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's lawyers on Friday said Democrats had provided no evidence the former president incited last month's deadly U.S. Capitol riot and had used his second impeachment t...
Feb 12, 2021 REUTERS/Erin Scott
Louisville Slugger Sports Complex drops Morgan Wallen from lineup
PEORIA, Ill. -- After a video surfaced last week of country music star Morgan Wallen using a racial slur, he has been dropped from the Tailgate N' Tallboys lineup on June 3, 2021. The video was releas...
Feb 12, 2021
Local COVID roundup 2/12: 4 people die
PEORIA, Ill. -- Tazewell County was hit hard by COVID during the Thursday-Friday reporting period, as four residents died. Two women in their 90s from Pekin Manor were among the casualties, as were a ...
Feb 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
State COVID roundup 2/12: tenth of state immunized
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- 10% of Illinois has officially gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 shot. A record-setting 95,375 people between Thursday and Friday received a vaccine. 2,598 people during th...
Feb 12, 2021 Midwest Communications
Elderly woman crashes into Peoria CVS store
PEORIA, Ill. -- Two people were hospitalized Thursday night after a car collided with another vehicle and part of a Peoria pharmacy. Emergency crews were called around 7:15 p.m. to the CVS in the 6800...
Feb 12, 2021 (25 News)
Trump's defense will make the case for his acquittal on inciting Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's defense lawyers will make their case on Friday why the former president is not guilty of inciting last month's deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, as the Senate race...
Feb 12, 2021 Snow falls at the U.S. Capitol on the third day of senate impeachment hearings against former U.S. president Donald Trump in Washington, U.S. February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
Police arrest teens for Elevate fight
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Police have arrested eight teenagers for mob action and battery following a fight at the Elevate Trampoline Park last Saturday night. Peoria Public Information Officer Amy Dotso...
Feb 12, 2021 (25 News)
Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump third party
(Reuters) - Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a cen...
Feb 11, 2021 REUTERS/Carlos Barria
