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Man arrested after weekend bar fight
PEORIA, Ill. -- A man was arrested after fights at Crusens in West Peoria Friday night. 24-year-old Jarkeith White-Emerson was charged with aggravated battery and resisting a peace officer. Arriving j...
Julia Bradley May 09, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Peoria Co. Sheriff's Office)
New mental health hospital coming to Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - A new mental health hospital will be coming to Peoria in the next couple years. The Meadowview Behavioral Hospital will be a 64,000 square foot, 100-bed facility located on Illinois Rou...
TJ Carson May 09, 2023 (OSF HealthCare)
UPDATE: Biden, McCarthy divided over debt ceiling but still talking
UPDATED 6:06 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and top lawmakers failed to break a deadlock on Tuesday in face-to-face talks over raising the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt limit but vowed to ...
TJ Carson May 09, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Hundreds of migrants amass near US-Mexico wall with COVID ban set to end
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Long lines of migrants have amassed this week in the border city of Tijuana, near the sprawling wall that divides Mexico from the United States, in the final days of a three-ye...
Julia Bradley May 09, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Migrants gather between the primary and secondary border fences in San Diego as the United States prepares to lift COVID-19 era restrictions known as Title 42, that have blocked migrants at the U.S.- Mexico border from seeking asylum since 2020, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico May 8, 2023. REUTERS/Aimee Melo/File Photo
PPS board, parents discuss "inappropriate object" at Monday's meeting
PEORIA, Ill. -- Communication was the main issue among the group of Kellar Primary School parents expressing their frustration with the school board following an incident in late April on a Peoria Pub...
Julia Bradley May 09, 2023 (File-1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Three-vehicle crash causes at least one injury
PEORIA, Ill. - Three people were injured after an accident at the Interstate 74 Sterling off-ramp. Peoria Firefighters say the crash happened just after 4:00 p.m. Monday. The three-vehicle accident in...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 (Photo taken from Illinois Department of Transportation traffic camera)
Abortion providers sue to preserve, expand access to abortion pill
(Reuters) - A group of abortion providers on Monday filed a lawsuit aiming to preserve access to the abortion pill mifepristone as anti-abortion opponents aim to ban it in a separate case. The lawsuit...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A container holding boxes of Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, are prepared for patients at Alamo Women's Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Twitter to remove inactive accounts
(Reuters) -Social media platform Twitter Inc will remove accounts that have been inactive for several years, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday. Musk added that users on the micro-blogging platfo...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Former City Council member remembers Richard Carver
PEORIA, Ill. - Very personable. That's how former Peoria City Council member, Lieutenant Colonel Lester Bergsten, remembers former Mayor Richard Carver, who died in Florida Friday at age 85 after an i...
Will Stevenson May 08, 2023 (City of Peoria via Facebook)
Trump's lawyer calls civil rape case an affront to justice system
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's lawyer on Monday called a rape and defamation case brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll against the former U.S. president an affront to the justice system. During c...
TJ Carson May 08, 2023 Joe Tacopina, lawyer of former U.S. President Donald Trump, makes closing arguments during a civil trial where former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and of defamation, in New York, U.S., May 8, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg