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Sunday, October 15, 2017
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Storm knocks out power, topples trees
PEORIA - Heavy rain and high winds created power outages and toppled trees across central Illinois Saturday night.Ameren…
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Armed robbery thwarted at Pit Stop gas station
PEORIA - An armed robbery was aborted by Peoria police early Saturday morning at the Pit Stop gas station, 2412 N. Sheri…
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Hillside Tap robbed at gunpoint Friday night
PEORIA - Hillside Tap, 1745 N. Sheridan Road, was the site of an armed robbery on Friday night.A male, masked by a banda…
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Statehouse Insider: A poor rating, but sorta good news
The state is about to issue $6 billion or so in bonds that will be used to pay down part of the enormous bill backlog, w…
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Four arrested in Bartonville home invasion
BARTONVILLE - Four people were arrested after a reported home invasion Saturday morning at 4201 S. Granville Ave.Bartonv…
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Motorcycle driver killed in accident on Charter Oak Road
PEORIA - Timothy Duncan, a 43-year-old Peorian, was pronounced dead at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Saturday morning…
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'You are my slave:' School's Civil War Day sparks mom's ire
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) - A new battle line has formed in the national debate over Civil War flags and symbols - this time at…
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The week in odd news: Bible drugs; Canal jump; Putin's pup
FRIDAY THE 13TH: FLIGHT 666 MAKES IT SAFELY TO HELCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - The Helsinki airport says Flight 666 has ar…
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Pro-Trump states most affected by his health care decision
President Donald Trump's decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that was benefiting roughly 6 million Am…
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Bannon on GOP insurgency: 'Nobody can run and hide'
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Steve Bannon has a stark message to Republican incumbents he considers part of the establishment: …
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Wildfires threaten more wineries and historic town of Sonoma
SONOMA, Calif. (AP) - The California wildfires raced toward wineries and the historic town of Sonoma on Saturday, chasin…
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Motion Picture Academy expels movie mogul Harvey Weinstein
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a move virtually unprecedented, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's membership in the Academy…
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Luciano: Amid a hurricane and horror, hope collides two Tazewell natives in Florida
Kynse Agles and NicQue Mayhew spent their earliest years in Tazewell County, just 10 miles apart but to the best of thei…
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Homelessness: 'It could be a solvable problem here'
PEORIA - Kevin Nowlan doesn't see more cots in emergency shelters solving the homeless problem in central Illinois."Perm…
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Man sustains life-threatening injuries in South Peoria shooting
PEORIA - A man sustained life-threatening injuries early Saturday in a South Peoria shooting that also injured another m…
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