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Peoria Heights board votes again to delay contract with Peoria Fire
PEORIA, Ill. (25 News) - In a 3-2 vote, Peoria Heights Village Board voted to stop consideration of a contract with the Peoria Fire Department. The contentious deal drew in crowds at two separate boar...
Julia Bradley Aug 16, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Choate director replaced as new report says abuse at the facility hasn't stopped
This article was produced for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. (Capitol News Illinois) - State officials this week named a new leader of Choate Mental He...
Will Stevenson Aug 16, 2023 (Illustration by ProPublica. Source images: Whitney Curtis for ProPublica and Equip for Equality Report.)
Emails shown at trial detail Madigan world's response to 2018 sexual harassment scandal
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - In early 2018, longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was facing a sexual harassment scandal that his closest advisors worried could doom his political futur...
Will Stevenson Aug 16, 2023 Former House Speaker Michael Madigan (middle), confidant Mike McClain (left) and longtime chief of staff Tim Mapes are pictured in Capitol News Illinois file photos. Email exchanges between Mapes and McClain pertaining to Madigan were shown to a federal jury Tuesday in Mapes' perjury trial. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Andrew Adams and Jerry Nowicki)
Biden to explain Inflation Reduction Act on one-year anniversary
(Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday marks the first anniversary of signing his signature clean energy legislation called the Inflation Reduction Act by leading a campaign to better explai...
TJ Carson Aug 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about infrastructure jobs and job training in broadband, construction, and manufacturing following the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 2, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis//File Photo
Teenager arrested on weapons charges after police chase in South Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police arrested a teenager on weapons charges after a brief chase Tuesday afternoon in South Peoria. Officers attempted to make contact with a 13-year-old who was a wanted subjec...
TJ Carson Aug 16, 2023 Midwest Communications
UPDATE: Biden to survey Maui wildfire destruction, meet survivors
UPDATED 1:36 P.M. LAHAINA, Hawaii (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii next week to survey the devastation left in the wake of the deadly wildfires that ...
TJ Carson Aug 16, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden disembark from Marine One at Delaware Air National Guard Base en route to Wilmington, in New Castle, Delaware, U.S., August 4, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
Schumer: Government funding resolution agreement with McCarthy is 'good sign'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday said he met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy a few weeks ago and agreed to a resolution that could extend current federal...
Julia Bradley Aug 16, 2023 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), holds a press conference after the weekly Democratic caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. July 19, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Peoria woman accused by grand jury of having sex with a minor
UPDATED 2:09 P.M. PEORIA, Ill. - A now-former employee of Peoria's Friendship House was indicted by a Grand Jury on Tuesday for Criminal Sexual Assault, a class 1 felony. Jasmine Lamon, 22, according ...
Julia Bradley Aug 16, 2023 Jasmine Lamon (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Friendship House/LinkedIn)
Peoria crews battle garage fire overnight
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria crews were called to a garage fire early Wednesday morning in the area of E. Corrington and N. Maryland Avenue. Firefighters arrived just before 1:30 a.m., finding a detached gar...
Julia Bradley Aug 16, 2023 D4E / CC
Maui's displaced grow anxious as wildfire recovery drags on
LAHAINA, Hawaii (Reuters) -A week after wildfire ravaged the resort town of Lahaina, traumatized Maui residents have grown weary from living off relief supplies while many are kept from inspecting the...
Julia Bradley Aug 16, 2023 Fire damage is shown in the Wahikuli Terrace neighborhood in the fire ravaged town of Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii, U.S., August 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake
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