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East Peoria home damaged by fire
EAST PEORIA, Ill. - A home in East Peoria suffered $60,000 in damage during a fire late Thursday morning. East Peoria Fire Chief Bobby Zimmerman says crews were called to the home just after 10:30 a.m...
Will Stevenson May 04, 2023 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Superintendent addresses "inappropriate object" taken to a Peoria school
UPDATE 10:30 A.M. (5/5) PEORIA, Ill. -- Peoria Public Schools says an "inappropriate object" was discovered on a bus serving students at Kellar Primary School last week. PPS Superintendent Dr. Sharon ...
Will Stevenson May 04, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Jury convicts Proud Boys members of seditious conspiracy in US Capitol attack
UPDATED 2:38 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A jury on Thursday convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group including its former leader Enrique Tarrio of seditious conspiracy, finding ...
TJ Carson May 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Members of the far-right Proud Boys, including leader Enrique Tarrio (C), rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump to protest against the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Washington, U.S. November 14, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo
US jobs market softening; slumping productivity boosts labor costs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits increased last week as the labor market gradually softens amid higher interest rates, which are cooling demand in ...
Julia Bradley May 04, 2023 Hundreds of people line up outside a Kentucky Career Center hoping to find assistance with their unemployment claim in Frankfort, Kentucky, U.S. June 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
UPDATE: Atlanta judge denies bail for suspect in medical building shooting
UPDATE: 11:47 a.m. ATLANTA (Reuters) -A former U.S. Coast Guardsman accused of killing a woman and wounding four others in a shooting in an Atlanta medical building waived his right on Thursday to app...
Julia Bradley May 04, 2023 Deion Patterson, who Atlanta Police describe as the suspect in a lunchtime mass shooting at a medical building, poses in an undated photograph. Atlanta Police Department/Handout via REUTERS
Amid US debt-ceiling standoff, Senate Democrats to dissect Republican plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican plan to cut federal spending in exchange for lifting the federal government's debt ceiling will come under the microscope Thursday in the U.S. Senate, where Preside...
Julia Bradley May 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A cyclist passes by the U.S. Capitol building, on the morning of the first day of the 118th Congress in Washington, DC, U.S., January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Jon Cherry/File Photo
FDA approves first RSV vaccine from GSK
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved GSK Plc's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, the British drugmaker said on Wednesday, making it the first shot to be cleared for p...
Julia Bradley May 04, 2023 FILE PHOTO: GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) logo is seen in this illustration, August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Wheels O' Time Museum opens for 40th season
PEORIA, Ill. -- The Wheels O' Time Museum in Dunlap is celebrating 40 years in operation. The museum that was originally made to display a collection of interesting vehicles belonging to two couples, ...
Julia Bradley May 04, 2023 (Wheels O' Time Facebook)
One person injured, four dogs die in Peoria fire
PEORIA, Ill. -- A Peoria fire investigator said a residential fire near the corner of N. Atlantic and N.E. Glen Oak Wednesday night in was electrical, causing $60,000 damage. Firefighters arrived just...
Julia Bradley May 04, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Legislature passes anti-book ban bill; Peoria library director supports
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - State and even Peoria officials are praising the Illinois Legislature's passage of a bill banning book bans in Illinois libraries. More or less, the bill, House Bill 2789, would ba...
Will Stevenson May 03, 2023 (Peoria Public Library via Facebook)
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