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Coroner: Cause of death 'inconclusive' for Peoria County Jail inmate
PEORIA, Ill. - We're learning more about the death of a Peoria County jail inmate over the weekend. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, however, says an autopsy on Erick Luncsford, 33, was inconclusi...
Sep 11, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Gas prices falling slightly in central Illinois. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices are on a downward trend in central Illinois. GasBuddy is reporting the Peoria-area average for unleaded is $3.83/g, down 5.2 cents from last week. The average is 2.4 cents ch...
Sep 11, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
J.M. Smucker to buy Twinkies maker Hostess Brands in $5.6 billion deal
(Reuters) -J.M. Smucker on Monday agreed to buy Twinkies maker Hostess Brands for $5.6 billion including debt in a deal that unites two major American snack makers. The deal was worth about $4.6 billi...
Sep 11, 2023 Hostess Brands "Twinkies" are displayed in a store in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S. July 5, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/file photo
UPDATE: Former Trump aide Meadows files appeal to move Georgia election case to federal court -filing
UPDATED 12:28 P.M. (Reuters) -Mark Meadows, a former aide to Donald Trump who was charged in Georgia with trying to overturn the former U.S. president's 2020 election loss, has appealed a judge's ruli...
Sep 11, 2023 FILE PHOTO: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters following a television interview, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
Rescuers race to find survivors over 48 hours after Morocco earthquake
IMGDAL, Morocco (Reuters) - Rescuers raced against time on Monday to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours after Morocco's deadliest earthquake in over six decades, with nearly 2,500 killed ...
Sep 11, 2023 An emergency worker and a dog search bodies on the rubbles, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Amizmiz, Morocco, September 10, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts third time this year
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island began to erupt on Sunday afternoon, with flows currently confined to the surrounding crater floor, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) s...
Sep 11, 2023 Lava flows on the Halema'uma'u crater floor alongside several active vent sources as the Kilauea volcano erupts in Hawaii, U.S. June 7, 2023. USGS/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
UPDATE: US marks Sept. 11 attacks with Pentagon, World Trade Center site events
UPDATED 1:07 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans paused on Monday to remember the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, 22 years after Islamist hijackers seized control of jetliners and crashed them into the twi...
Sep 11, 2023 A person holds a flag, on the day of the 22nd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, in New York City, U.S., September 11, 2023. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Man arrested after shooting in West Peoria leaves another man injured
WEST PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria man is being held in jail after he allegedly shot another man in West Peoria. Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins says Anthony Gates, 43, was booked on charges of Aggravat...
Sep 10, 2023 Anthony Gates (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
Man arrested, three hurt, after car hits pedestrians and another car in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man is jailed in Peoria County on charges he was driving drunk and caused three people to be injured - one seriously. Peoria Police say Nikolas Hammond, 34, was arrested in Bart...
Sep 10, 2023 Nikolas Hammond (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria County Jail)
G20 summit wraps up in New Delhi; Macron says it confirms isolation of Russia
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The G20 summit in New Delhi ended on Sunday as India handed over the bloc presidency to Brazil, while both the U.S. and Russia praised a consensus that did not condemn Moscow for ...
Sep 10, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden visits the Raj Ghat memorial with Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and other G20 leaders, Sept. 10, 2023, in New Delhi. Kenny Holston/Pool via REUTERS
