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Man gets decades in prison for 2021 murder
PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man will spend what could be the rest of his life in prison after being convicted last September of the murder of a teenager. Court records indicate a judge Friday sentenced Je...
Feb 16, 2024 (Left to Right): Jeremy Moore, Jr., Gary Irby, Tyranique White (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail October 2021)
Williams: Not as much snow Friday in Tazewell County
TAZEWELL COUNTY, Ill. - As snow continued to fall across Central Illinois Friday, some areas were seeing more snow than others. Scott Williams, with the Tazewell County Highway Department, told WMBD R...
Feb 16, 2024 Midwest Communications
In last-minute reversal, former Sen. Sam McCann pleads guilty to corruption charges
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - As federal prosecutors were preparing to rest their case Thursday in the corruption trial of former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann, the one-time gubernato...
Feb 16, 2024 Former state Sen. Sam McCann’s federal corruption trial concluded Thursday as he pleaded guilty. The onetime Republican and third-party candidate for governor is pictured in a mugshot after being arrested last week for violating his conditions of pretrial release. (Courthouse photo by Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois; booking photo from Macon County Sheriff’s Office)
Trump prosecutor Fani Willis won't testify on Friday on misconduct claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Georgia prosecutor overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump will not take the stand on Friday in a hearing exploring whether her romantic relationship w...
Feb 16, 2024 Attorney Fani Willis speaks during a hearing in the case of State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/Pool
Hur set to testify before Congress on Biden's fitness to be president
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an unusual move, the Department of Justice wrote to the White House Counsel last week telling them that special counsel Robert Hur's report "was consistent with legal requirement...
Feb 16, 2024 angela n. / CC
Alexei Navalny, prominent Putin foe, dies in Arctic jail, Russia says
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's most formidable opponent, collapsed and died on Friday after a walk at the "Polar Wolf" Arctic penal colony where he was serving a ...
Feb 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen in a photograph at Loevestein Castle where a replica of his prison cell is on display as part of the exhibit "Silenced", the Netherlands, March 30, 2023. REUTERS/Anthony Deutsch/File Photo
Peoria County crews clearing roads after snowfall Friday morning
PEORIA, Ill. - Road conditions worsened in Peoria County as snow fell and temperatures hovered around the freezing mark Friday morning. Peoria County Highway Department Engineer Amy McLaren says crews...
Feb 16, 2024 A Peoria County plow clearing roads early Tuesday, January 9. (1470 & 100.3 WMBD--TJ Carson)
Peoria County issues Traffic Collision Alert
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. -- The Peoria County Sheriff's Office has issued a traffic collision alert for Peoria County. Anyone involved in vehicle crashes, where no one is injured, should exchange informati...
Feb 16, 2024
Biden to visit Ohio town a year after toxic train derailment
(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to East Palestine, Ohio, on Friday for the first time since a fiery derailment of a Norfolk Southern train a year ago released more than a million gall...
Feb 16, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the aid package for Ukraine, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 13, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Public hears about plans to make Adams and Jefferson 2-way streets again downtown
PEORIA, Ill. - City leaders held a public meeting in downtown Peoria Thursday, giving people an opportunity to ask questions about changing Adams Street and Jefferson Avenue back to two-way traffic. T...
Feb 16, 2024 (25 News)
