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Man accused of pointing weapon at Peoria Police officer ordered to remain in jail
PEKIN, Ill. - A Tazewell County judge has ordered a man accused of pointing a gun at a police officer to remain in jail. Brian Childers, 45, appeared in court Thursday for a pretrial detention hearing...
Mar 28, 2024 (Peoria County Sheriff's Office/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
DCFS hires on-the-spot at hiring events
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Cyrenthia Threat spent Wednesday morning at a hiring event in Fairview Heights waiting for word on whether she was hired by the Illinois Department of ...
Mar 28, 2024 Tina Clayborne and Cyrenthia Threat stand in line to process their applications at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services’ On-The-Spot Hiring event on Wednesday at the Fountains Conference Center in Fairview Heights. DCFS Officials said 303 people attended with 123 receiving conditional job offers. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Beth Hundsdorfer)
Immigrants killed in Baltimore bridge collapse died doing job 'others do not want to do'
BALTIMORE (Reuters) -They came to the United States for a chance at a better life. They found work filling pot holes on a bridge in the middle of the night, and they ended up dead in the Baltimore har...
Mar 28, 2024 Hispanic community leaders discuss supporting the families of the bridge collapse victims at a taqueria in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Gabriella Borter
Job numbers and unemployment rates increase in Peoria area in February
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Jobs are up in the Peoria-metro area, but so is the unemployment rate. The latest report released Thursday by the Illinois Department of Employment Security showed the metro area's...
Mar 28, 2024 job market section, paper
Peoria County Vietnam veterans and those lost in the conflict honored on Thursday
PEORIA, Ill. - Those who served and those who were lost in the Vietnam War from Peoria County were recognized on Thursday. The annual ceremony to honor veterans from the Vietnam War took place at the ...
Mar 28, 2024 Peoria American Legion Post 2 Commander Jim Ulrich leads the ceremony for Peoria County Vietnam veterans at the Peoria County Courthouse grounds on March 28th, 2024. (T.J. Carson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
World Court orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; fighting flares at hospital
THE HAGUE/CAIRO (Reuters) -The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies...
Mar 28, 2024 Members of the Israeli army check around the scene of a shooting incident, near Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, March 28, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
US House to deliver Homeland Secretary Mayorkas impeachment to Senate April 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives will deliver two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10,...
Mar 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press conference with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, March 21, 2024. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin/File Photo
Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the ...
Mar 28, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces fraud charges over the collapse of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, leaves the Manhattan federal court in New York City, U.S. March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
Peoria teen claims self-defense in shooting other teen
PEORIA, Ill. - A 16-year-old who's being tried as an adult for shooting another teenager in Peoria's West Bluff on Sunday admits to the shooting, but says it was self-defense. During Janard Quin's det...
Mar 28, 2024 (File-Mike Sabol/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
MLB Opening Day: Rangers open defense of title vs. Cubs
The Texas Rangers will take the first step on what they hope is the long journey toward defending their World Series title on Thursday night when they open the season against the Chicago Cubs in Arlin...
Mar 28, 2024 Mar 23, 2024; Surprise, Arizona, USA; Texas Rangers starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi (17) pitches against the Kansas City Royals during the second inning at Surprise Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
