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Peoria Holding Recreational Cannabis Meeting
Peoria will discuss recreational cannabis Monday night. City officials will meet with the public at the ICC Peoria Campus Student Center, at 5407 N. University Street, at 6 p.m. A second meeting will ...
Sep 16, 2019 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
PCAV Promoting Peace With 'HopeFest' Event
Promoting peace in Peoria. Gloria Clark has been involved with Peoria Community Against Violence for over five years. She got involved with the organization to help make a difference in the community....
Sep 16, 2019
No Deal: Auto Workers Strike Against GM In Contract Dispute
(AP) - More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers union went on strike early Monday as contract talks with General Motors broke down. Union members walked out of factories and set up picket l...
Sep 16, 2019 United Auto Workers members picket outside the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich., early Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. Roughly 49,000 workers at General Motors plants in the U.S. planned to strike just before midnight Sunday, but talks between the UAW and the automaker will resume. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
After Bankruptcy Filing, Purdue Pharma May Not Be Off Hook
(AP)-OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has filed for bankruptcy protection. But that doesn't mean the company or the family that owns it is off the legal hook. States are divided on whether to accept a te...
Sep 16, 2019 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock
Police: Rock Star Ric Ocasek Found Dead In NYC Apartment
(AP) - Ric Ocasek, famed frontman for The Cars rock band, has been found dead in a Manhattan apartment. The New York City police department said officers responding to a 911 call found the 75-year-old...
Sep 15, 2019
UPDATE: Peoria 19th Homicide Suspect Turns Himself In
Xavier Blake, the man identified as the primary suspect in the 19th Peoria homicide of 2019, turned himself in to the Peoria Police Department on Friday around noon. Blake, 34, was identified as the p...
Sep 15, 2019
Fire Fighters Battle Downtown Fire In Pontiac
A local warehouse in downtown Pontiac destroyed by fire. Fire fighters in Pontiac and various agencies from surrounding areas, including Long Point, Streator, and Reading Township, fought the blaze in...
Sep 14, 2019 Photo-Credit Reading Twp. Fire Dept.
White House Says Bin Laden Son Killed In U.S. Operation
(AP) - The White House says Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, has been killed in a U.S. counterterrori...
Sep 14, 2019 FILE - In this image from video released by the CIA on Nov. 1, 2017, Hamza bin Laden is shown at his wedding. Years after the death of his father at the hands of a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan, Hamza bin Laden finds himself clearly in the crosshairs of world powers. The U.S. has put up to a $1 million bounty for him. The U.N. Security Council has named him to a global sanctions list, sparking a new Interpol notice for his arrest. His home country of Saudi Arabia has revoked his citizenship. (CIA via AP, File)
Suspect In Peoria Standoff Formally Charged
The suspect in a Peoria standoff with police is formally charged. Talya Zolicoffer, 39, was arrested Wednesday for allegedly holding a woman against her will in a home on W. Kettelle. On Friday, Zolic...
Sep 14, 2019 Peoria County Jail
Peoria Heights Man Found Guilty Of Killing Toddler In 2017
(25 News)--Joshua Rutledge was found guilty of First Degree Murder in Peoria County court Thursday. Rutledge was accused of killing his girlfriend's 16-month-old son while he was babysitting the boy b...
Sep 14, 2019 Peoria County Jail
