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Morton Police: 'Mental health crisis' leads to nearby school lockdown
MORTON, Ill. - A man who reportedly had a rifle and was yelling at passers-by to call the police caused a school to go on lockdown for a while Thursday. Police in Morton say it happened just after 11 ...
Feb 15, 2024 (Morton Police)
Man wanted for Big Al's shooting arrested in Georgia
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say the man accused of opening fire on a security guard at Big Al's in downtown Peoria last October has been arrested in Georgia. Peoria Police say U.S. Marshals arrested ...
Feb 15, 2024 Tywahnn Tillman (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail July 2021)
UPDATE: Trump prosecutor Fani Willis accuses defense of 'lies' about misconduct
UPDATED 4:49 P.M. (Reuters) -Fani Willis, the prosecutor overseeing the election interference case against Donald Trump in Georgia, on Thursday pushed back on claims by the former U.S. president's law...
Feb 15, 2024 Attorney Fani Willis speaks from a witness stand 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
Israel raids main Gaza hospital as Rafah concerns grow
JERUSALEM/DOHA (Reuters) -Israeli forces said on Thursday they had raided the biggest functioning hospital in Gaza as footage showed chaos, shouting and gunfire in dark corridors filled with dust and ...
Feb 15, 2024 A woman rests with children, as Palestinian arrive in Rafah after they were evacuated from Nasser hospital in Khan Younis due to the Israeli ground operation, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
US retail sales tumble in January; weekly jobless claims fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales fell by the most in nearly a year in January, but economists cautioned against reading too much into the decline, noting that winter storms as well as technica...
Feb 15, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A man shops for produce at Best World Supermarket in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., U.S., August 19, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo
Customers pay for utilities' lawyers and corporate donations. Advocates want to change that
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Illinoisans pay tens of millions of dollars each year to utilities to cover costs they accrue for lawyers, belonging to trade groups, making charitable cont...
Feb 15, 2024 ComEd: The headquarters of Commonwealth Edison, one of the state’s largest utilities, is pictured in Chicago. (Capitol News Illinois file photo by Andrew Adams)
Judge denies Trump request to dismiss hush money case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York judge denied Donald Trump's request to dismiss criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, paving the way for the first-ever criminal trial of a form...
Feb 15, 2024 Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks outside Trump Tower to attend a court hearing on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election, in New York City, U.S., February 15, 2024. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Riverview Plaza still closed in downtown Peoria, reopening date unknown
PEORIA, Ill. - The Riverview Plaza in downtown Peoria is still closed a week after a huge water leak damaged the building's fire protection system. Last Thursday, a water main pipe broke, sending a de...
Feb 15, 2024 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
104.9 The Wolf raising money for St. Jude's kids
PEORIA, Ill. - Over the two days, Midwest Communications' 104.9 The Wolf is raising money and awareness for the kids at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Wolf personalities ...
Feb 15, 2024 104.9 The Wolf personalities Mike Stechman and John Young broadcasting for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Wednesday abd Thursday this week. (1470/100.3 WMBD--Julia Bradley)
UPDATE: Kansas City police link Super Bowl rally shooting to personal dispute, not terror
Updated: 11:54 a.m. (Reuters) - Kansas City, Missouri police on Thursday said a personal dispute, not extremism, was behind the deadly mass shooting that erupted a day earlier, following a rally to ce...
Feb 15, 2024 Police officers detain a person outside of Union Station following a shooting near an outdoor celebration of the NFL champion Chiefs' Super Bowl victory, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. February 14, 2024 in this screen grab obtained from social media video. Alyssa Contreras/via REUTERS
