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Arson cited by Peoria Fire as cause of blaze to home early Sunday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Arson is being cited as the cause of a fire early Sunday morning in Peoria. Peoria Fire says crews were called to the house in the area of Peoria and Illinois Avenues just after 12:45 A...
Mar 03, 2024 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
UPDATE: Three dead from three-vehicle accident in Peoria County
UPDATED 9:15 P.M. PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Three people are dead, and one more person is injured, after an accident in Peoria County Saturday afternoon. Illinois State Police say the three-vehicle crash ...
Mar 02, 2024 Midwest Communications
US carries out first airdrop of aid into Gaza
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military on Saturday carried out its first airdrop of aid into Gaza, after the deaths of Palestinians queuing for food underlined the growing humanitarian catastrophe in...
Mar 02, 2024 U.S. military carry out its first aid over Gaza, amid the ongoing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza City, March 2, 2024. REUTERS/Kosay Al Nemer
His conviction was overturned after 35 years wrongfully served. State law caps his compensation at 14 years
(Capitol News Illinois) - In December, 57-year-old Brian Beals spent Christmas with his sister Pattilyn for the first time 35 years. Beals was exonerated and freed from Robinson Correctional Center in...
Mar 02, 2024 Brian Beals, 57, sits in his sister’s home in January, one month after being released from prison after serving 35 years for a wrongful conviction. Beals was studying at Southern Illinois University when he was arrested for a murder he did not commit in 1988. (Capitol News Illinois Photo by Dilpreet Raju)
Alaska's 52nd annual Iditarod sled dog race mushes to starting line
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The world's most famous sled-dog race gets under way on Saturday when 38 mushers and their canine teams, one of the smallest rosters of competitors ever, line up in downt...
Mar 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Iditarod 2023 winner Ryan Redington, whose grandfather Joe Redington Sr. is known as the founding father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race, arrives at the finish line at 12:14 pm in Nome, Alaska, U.S. March 14, 2023. The Nome Nugget/Diana Haecker via REUTERS/File Photo
Multi-state lotto jackpots now total more than $1 billion
PEORIA, Ill. - There's still more than $1 billion in multi-state lottery jackpots to be won. The jackpot in the Mega Millions drawing has increased, after no one matched all the winning numbers Friday...
Mar 02, 2024 (Multi-State Lottery Association/Mega Millions)
Native tribe seeks return of ancestral land in Dekalb County
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinois currently has no federally recognized tribal land within its borders, but that could change in the coming months. A bill pending in the General Ass...
Mar 02, 2024 Ronnie Preston dances in the Illinois Capitol in February as part of the Native American Summit organized by the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Egyptian sources say Gaza ceasefire talks to resume in Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) -Gaza truce talks are due to resume in Cairo on Sunday, two Egyptian security sources said on Saturday, though an Israeli news outlet reported Israel would not send a delegation until ...
Mar 02, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint, as Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kosay Al Nemer/File Photo
Navalny's parents bury their son as thousands chant his name
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny's name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday. At a ...
Mar 02, 2024 People attend the funeral of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
One person dead after Tazewell County fire
DELAVAN, Ill. - An elderly woman is believed to be dead after a house fire Friday night in rural Tazewell County. Tazewell County sheriff's deputies tell 25 News the blaze was reported just after 7:00...
Mar 02, 2024 Midwest Communications
