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Former City Council member remembers Richard Carver
PEORIA, Ill. - Very personable. That's how former Peoria City Council member, Lieutenant Colonel Lester Bergsten, remembers former Mayor Richard Carver, who died in Florida Friday at age 85 after an i...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 (City of Peoria via Facebook)
Trump's lawyer calls civil rape case an affront to justice system
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's lawyer on Monday called a rape and defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll against the former U.S. president an affront to the justice system. During c...
TJ Carson May 08, 2023 Joe Tacopina, lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, makes closing arguments during a civil trial where former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and of defamation, in New York, U.S., May 8, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
UPDATE: Texas gunman may have embraced white supremacy, victims identified
UPDATED 8:29 P.M. (Reuters) -The man Texas authorities say killed eight people in a barrage of gunfire at a Dallas-area shopping mall over the weekend left behind a social media profile filled with wh...
TJ Carson May 08, 2023 Officers with the Allen Police Department man the mobile command post the day after a gunman shot multiple people at the Dallas-area Allen Premium Outlets mall in Allen, Texas, U.S. May 7, 2023. REUTERS/Jeremy Lock
Two arrested on Mob Action, Battery, other charges
PEORIA, Ill. - Two Peoria residents were arrested, but records indicate they're now out of jail -- after police say they were seen pointing guns at each other Saturday afternoon, and assaulted another...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 George Lewis (left) and Dayshaun Smullin (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Peoria man arrested Saturday on multiple weapons charges
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is facing multiple weapon charges after being arrested Saturday evening. Peoria Police says a License Plate Reader helped located a vehicle associated with a wanted subject...
TJ Carson May 08, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office)
Police investigate attempted ATM theft
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are trying to figure out who tried to steal an ATM in the area of the Shoppes at Grand Prairie. Police say it happened around 1:45 a.m. Monday on West American Prairie Dri...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 (Midwest Communications/Shutterstock)
Woman who sued over Subway tuna seeks to quit case; Subway demands sanctions
(Reuters) - The California woman suing Subway for claiming its tuna products contain ingredients other than tuna wants to end her lawsuit because she is pregnant, prompting Subway to demand her lawyer...
Julia Bradley May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a Subway sandwich store in central London January 22, 2014. Subway, one of the largest fast-food chains in the world, plans to open over 1,200 new stores in the UK and Ireland by 2020, creating another 13,000 jobs, it said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Andrew Winning/File Photo
East Peoria FD promotions include historic first
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - The East Peoria Fire Department made three promotions official on Monday, one of which was a first. Veronica Marmitt was the first woman promoted to assistant chief in the departme...
TJ Carson May 08, 2023 (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Texas deploys special border force to drive back expected migrant surge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Texas deployed a special border force on Monday to target "hot spots" where migrants try to enter the United States illegally after sweeping COVID-19 restrictions at the Mexican...
Julia Bradley May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants cross the Rio Bravo river with the intention of turning themselves in to the U.S. Border Patrol agents, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 5, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez/File Photo
Firefighters battle electrical fire Sunday night in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria crews were called to a home on N. North Street, near W. Lake, just before 11 p.m. Sunday on reports of a fire. Light smoke could be seen coming from the exterior of the home. Ba...
Julia Bradley May 08, 2023 D4E / CC
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