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KDB apparently also closes Sankoty Lakes
SPRING BAY, Ill. - The Scottish Rite Theatre and the Betty Jayne Brimmer Center for the Performing Arts aren't the only entities closing as owner KDB Group says it's taking a look at all its operation...
Will Stevenson Jan 07, 2023 (Courtesy Mark Davis)
Illinois Democrats push to further expand abortion, gender care access
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of precedent providing for legal abortion, Democrats in the Illinois General Assembly hav...
Will Stevenson Jan 07, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Mega Millions jackpot now in the billions
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The multi-state Mega Millions lottery has rolled over again, with no one winning the jackpot since October. Friday's jackpot was $940 million. Mega Millions officials say that mean...
Will Stevenson Jan 07, 2023 Sean Freese / CC
Galena Road home destroyed by fire
PEORIA, Ill. - A fire caused a home on Galena Road to have to be destroyed. Peoria firefighters say crews were called to a home near Galena and Derby Roads at 10:00 p.m. Friday, and spent two and a ha...
Will Stevenson Jan 07, 2023 D4E / CC
Kevin McCarthy elected Republican U.S. House speaker, but at a cost
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives early on Saturday, after making extensive concessions to a group of right-wing hardliners that...
Will Stevenson Jan 07, 2023 Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) bangs the Speaker's gavel for the first time after being elected the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a late night 15th round of voting on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 7, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
One injured in Thursday shooting
PEORIA, Ill. - One person was injured after a shooting Thursday afternoon in the area of Central Peoria. Peoria Police say they were called to Arcadia and Knoxville around 3:15 p.m. on a ShotSpotter a...
Will Stevenson Jan 06, 2023 Midwest Communications
Biden awards medals to Jan. 6 heroes who 'did not flinch'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday marked the second anniversary of the U.S. Capitol attack with an award ceremony for those who battled to defend America's democracy against attacker...
Will Stevenson Jan 06, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden presents a Presidential Citizens Medal to Georgia election worker Shaye Moss, as fellow Citizens Medal recipients, former MPD police Officer Michael Fanone; Moss's mother and fellow election worker Ruby Freeman; and U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell, applaud during a ceremony marking two years since the January 6, 2021, attack on U.S. Capitol, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
McCarthy again falls short in U.S. House vote but says victory near
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican Kevin McCarthy on Friday picked up the support of most of the right-wing hardliners who had opposed his bid to lead the U.S. House of Representatives, but fell short o...
Will Stevenson Jan 06, 2023 U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is flanked by an aide as he listens during a 12th round of voting for a new Speaker on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Police Chief: Homicides, shootings, other gun violence numbers all down in 2022
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria says he's proving doubters wrong when it comes to the city's crime statistics for 2022. "When we talk about gun violence, 28 percent down on shooting...
Will Stevenson Jan 06, 2023 (From a Peoria Police report)
Illinois officials proclaiming record cannabis sales in 2022
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois officials are toting a record number of cannabis sales in the state in 2022. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation says adult use cannabis dispe...
TJ Carson Jan 06, 2023 Midwest Communications/Shutterstock