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Teen arrested for illegal possession of handgun
PEORIA Ill. - A 14-year-old has been arrested in connection to a stolen handgun found in Peoria Wednesday. A Peoria Police spokesperson tells us, at around 4:20pm, PPD's Special Investigations Divisio...
Sep 19, 2024
UPDATE: One person dead after crash in Tazewell County
UPDATED 4:17 P.M. TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - A 62-year-old woman from Pekin is the victim in a fatal accident near South Pekin Thursday morning. Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley says the name of th...
Sep 19, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
Hezbollah chief denounces Israeli attacks as warplane sonic booms rattle Beirut
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Deadly Israeli attacks that blew up Hezbollah radios and pagers crossed all red lines, the leader of the heavily armed Iran-backed Lebanese movement said on Thursday, in a ...
Sep 19, 2024 People watch Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivering a televised address, as they sit at a cafe in Sidon, Lebanon September 19, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
Peoria Riverfront Museum Unveils "Space Exploration Gallery"
PEORIA Ill. - The Peoria Riverfront Museum is headed to space... Thursday morning, representatives of the museum unveiled their brand new "Space Exploration Gallery", located right outside the Dome Pl...
Sep 19, 2024 Peoria Riverfront Museum officials unveil "Space Exploration Gallery". (Casey Foreman / 1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Chase Bank's downtown Peoria location permanently closed
PEORIA, Ill. - The signs have been removed, and the ATM outside Chase Bank's Jefferson Street location in Peoria is boarded up. A Chase spokesperson confirms the downtown Peoria branch closed for good...
Sep 19, 2024 A moving truck is seen outside the Riverview Plaza building on March 11th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
US Senate to move on stopgap bill to avert partial government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will prepare temporary spending legislation that would avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the month, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said o...
Sep 19, 2024 A view shows the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., August 8, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File Photo
Man dies in late night shooting in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police are investigating the City's latest homicide after a shooting late Thursday night. PPD Spokesperson Semone Roth says officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 200 b...
Sep 19, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
US weekly jobless claims unexpectedly fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, suggesting job growth picked up in September. Initial claims for state une...
Sep 19, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian passes a "Help Wanted" sign in the door of a hardware store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Police find body believed to be that of Kentucky highway shooter who wounded 5
(Reuters) -Police on Wednesday said they discovered a body believed to be that of a fugitive suspected of shooting and wounding five people in cars traveling along a Kentucky highway on Sept. 7, an ou...
Sep 19, 2024 Drivers park on the the lanes of the I-75 highway after reports of multiple people shot about nine miles north of London, Kentucky, U.S. September 7, 2024. Mount Vernon Fire Department/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Israel bombs Lebanon after radio blasts, says it thwarts assassination plot
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel bombed southern Lebanon on Thursday and said it had thwarted an Iran-backed assassination plot, a day after explosions of Hezbollah radios that came on the heels of blasts ...
Sep 19, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher/File Photo
