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Investigation underway after fire at West Peoria home
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - The cause of a fire at a West Peoria home is under investigation. 25News reports the fire was called in at around 11:30 A.M. to a house in the area of West Laura and North Cedar. F...
Mar 26, 2025 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US appeals court upholds block on Trump deportation of some Venezuelans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's temporary block on the Trump administration's deportation of some Venezuelan immigrants under a little-used 18th century ...
Mar 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Salvadoran police officers escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, as part of an agreement with the Salvadoran government, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in this handout image obtained March 16, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Peoria mayoral candidates make final pitches to voters at Kiwanis
PEORIA, Ill. - The candidates for Peoria mayor are making their final push to win the hearts and minds of voters before the April 1st consolidated election. On Wednesday afternoon, incumbent mayor Rit...
Mar 26, 2025 Peoria Councilman John Kelly (left) and Mayor Rita Ali (right) participate in a debate before the April 1st consolidated election at a meeting of the Peoria Kiwanis group on March 26th, 2025. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Two arrested on weapons and drug charges in Woodford County
WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. - Two people, including an assistant in the Peoria County State's Attorney's Office, were arrested after a traffic stop near El Paso early Wednesday morning. The Woodford County ...
Mar 26, 2025 courtroom gavel
US Supreme Court upholds federal 'ghost guns' restrictions
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday a regulation targeting largely untraceable "ghost guns" imposed by Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration in a crackdown on firear...
Mar 26, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Parts of a ghost gun kit are on display at an event held by U.S. President Joe Biden to announce measures to fight ghost gun crime, at the White House in Washington U.S., April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Hundreds stage Gaza protest against Hamas after conflict resumes
CAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Hundreds of Palestinians have protested in northern Gaza to demand an end to war, chanting "Hamas out," social media posts showed, in a rare public show of opposition to the ...
Mar 26, 2025 Palestinians protest to demand an end to war, chanting anti-Hamas slogans, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip March 26, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer
Pentagon's Hegseth texted planned time of targeted killing of Yemeni militant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted the start time for a planned killing of a Houthi militant in Yemen on March 15 as well as other details of imminent waves of U.S. airst...
Mar 26, 2025 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attends a meeting with Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey (not pictured) at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 6, 2025. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo
Firefighters use rescue tools to free driver in Peoria crash
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a two-vehicle accident with entrapment Tuesday afternoon, at the intersection of Western and Rohmann. Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Hascall says crews arriv...
Mar 26, 2025 Midwest Communications
Trump signs election order calling for proof of U.S. citizenship to vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that would require voters to prove they are U.S. citizens and attempts to prevent states from counting mail-in ba...
Mar 26, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump looks on on the day of a meeting with U.S. ambassadors at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. homeland secretary to visit El Salvador prison holding deported Venezuelans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday is expected to visit a mega-prison in El Salvador holding Venezuelans deported by the U.S. as civil rights groups chall...
Mar 26, 2025 U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits the Mariposa Port of Entry, Saturday, March 15, 2025, in Nogales, Ariz. Alex Brandon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
