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Two injured in Friday morning crash in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - An accident that shut down a portion of Knoxville Avenue in Peoria Friday morning injured two people. Peoria Police say the two-vehicle crash happened just before 9:30 A.M. near the int...
Mar 14, 2025 (Midwest Communications)
After Trump request, Putin says he will let Ukraine troops in Kursk live if they surrender
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump urged Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Friday to spare Ukrainian troops that Russia is pushing out of its Kursk region, an appeal Putin said he...
Mar 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands during a bilateral meeting at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
Peoria Christian wins, Manual defeated, in IHSA boys' basketball 3rd place games
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - High school basketball is officially over for the 2024-25 season in central Illinois. The Peoria Christian and Manual boys' teams, the last two remaining teams in the area, finished ...
Mar 14, 2025 (Peoria Manual High School)
UPDATE: Peoria County correctional officer fired after allegedly bringing contraband to detainee
UPDATED 6:38 P.M. PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - A correctional officer at the Peoria County Jail has been fired after allegedly bringing a detainee contraband. Sheriff Chris Watkins says 25-year-old Ezekiel H...
Mar 14, 2025 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
Israel rejects Hamas offer to free Israeli-American hostage as 'psychological warfare'
CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to free an American-Israeli dual national if Israel begins the next phase of ceasefire talks towards a permanent end to the war, an offer Isra...
Mar 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A Torah and A photograph of Edan Alexander, the American-Israeli and Israel Defense Forces soldier taken hostage during the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, sit in his home during a family interview with Reuters in Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S., December 14, 2024. REUTERS/Stephani Spindel/File Photo
TV's Dr. Oz, Trump's Medicare nominee, to face questions on ties to industry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity physician and former Republican Senate candidate nominated by President Donald Trump to a top U.S. health job, appeared before the Senate Finance Co...
Mar 14, 2025 FILE PHOTO: Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz departs from his polling location after voting in the 2022 U.S. midterm election in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 8, 2022.
UPDATE: 17-year-olds arrested for November homicide at Peoria apartment complex to be tried as adults
UPDATED 6:49 P.M. Two teenagers have been arrested in connection to a homicide last November at a Peoria apartment complex. The Peoria County State's Attorney's Office says Dayquan Diggs and Harringto...
Mar 14, 2025 Peoria Peoria Chief Eric Echevarria and Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos appear together on March 14thannounce arrests in connection to a fatal shooting at the Wood Sage Apartments. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Judge James Shadid named Bradley University's new president
PEORIA, Ill. - Federal Judge James Shadid, who has served the Central District of Illinois, has been named the new President of Bradley University. In a statement from the university, the Bradley Boar...
Mar 14, 2025 Federal Judge James Shadid, who has served the District of Central Illinois, has been named the new president of Bradley University
(1470 WMBD Radio--Julia Bradley)
American Airlines jet engine catches fire after landing in Denver, passengers evacuated
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An engine on an American Airlines jet caught fire after the plane diverted to Denver on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of passengers, the Federal Aviation Administration said....
Mar 14, 2025 Smoke rises as a passenger gets evacuated using the plane's slides, after an American Airlines jet engine caught fire, in Denver, Colorado, U.S., MARCH 13, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Aaron Clark/via REUTERS
Putin suggests US ceasefire idea for Ukraine needs serious reworking
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but that fighting could not be paused until a number of cruci...
Mar 14, 2025 Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses commanders as he visits a control centre of the Russian armed forces in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the Kursk region, Russia, March 12, 2025, in this still image taken from video. Russian Pool/Reuters TV via REUTERS
