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Arson to blame for residential fire in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria firefighters responded to a residential fire early Tuesday morning on S. Charles Street. Fire Battalion Chief Larry Carter says when crews arrived around 12:15 a.m., they found f...
Feb 25, 2025 D4E / CC
Trump, Macron display stark differences on Ukraine despite friendly veneer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron displayed stark differences on Monday in their approach to Ukraine, exposing a divide between the United States ...
Feb 24, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Eureka chiropractor convicted of defrauding Medicare, faces sentencing in Peoria
PEORIA Ill. - A Eureka woman has been found guilty of defrauding Medicare and other insurance companies out of more than $1.5 million. According to the United States Attorney's Office, A federal jury ...
Feb 24, 2025 courtroom gavel
Peoria public television station WTVP closer to compliance with Corporation for Public Broadcasting
PEORIA, Ill. - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says Peoria public television station WTVP is nearly in the clear. CEO and President Jenn Gordon says WTVP received a determination letter Thursd...
Feb 24, 2025 (25 News)
US Supreme Court rebuffs free speech challenge to abortion clinic buffer zones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to the legality of buffer zones used to protect access to abortion clinics and limit harassment of patients in a ch...
Feb 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: A sign just over the Missouri-Illinois border welcomes women to Illinois, where abortion is legal, unlike in the neighboring state of Missouri, near St. Louis, in Illinois, U.S., May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Peoria primary voter turnout low as election day nears
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria voters will be going to the polls on Tuesday, but not many of them are casting their ballots. Tuesday's primary elections in the city will decide the two finalists in races for m...
Feb 24, 2025 (Julia Bradley & 1470 100.3 WMBD Radio)
PPD: Teens arrested at Peoria home Friday night
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police responded to a home on N. Webster Street Friday evening on reports of a male pointing a gun at a female. When officers arrived around 6:45 p.m., several juveniles were ins...
Feb 24, 2025 MWC-PPD
Roberta Flack, American singer and Grammy winner, dies aged 88
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song" topped the charts in the 197...
Feb 24, 2025 FILE PHOTO: 62nd Grammy Awards – Arrivals – Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 26, 2020 – Roberta Flack. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
Lawmakers weigh whether to legalize 'medical aid in dying'
CHICAGO - Lawmakers are considering legalizing a controversial medical practice that proponents say could ease suffering for the terminally ill. It's sometimes called "assisted suicide," although phys...
Feb 24, 2025 Sen. Linda Holmes, D-Aurora, speaks at a legislative hearing on a bill that would legalize “medical aid in dying.” (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Pope Francis remains critically ill but alert; cardinals speculate
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia and the onset of slight kidney failure, but he remains alert, the Vatican said on Monday. The 88-year-old p...
Feb 24, 2025 Nuns pray outside the Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is admitted for treatment, in Rome, Italy, February 23, 2025. REUTERS/Vincenzo Livieri
