Category Archives: Top Stories
State officials telling Illinois residents to be prepared for student loan payments restarting in October
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Federal student loan payments are starting back up again in October, and there's options for those concerned about making those payments. Ana Moya of the Illinois Student Assistanc...
Aug 28, 2023
NWS: Two brief tornadoes Saturday in Fulton County
MARIETTA, Ill. - They turned out to be not that big of a deal, but the National Weather Service confirms two tornadoes touched down in rural Fulton County Saturday. The Weather Service says two tornad...
Aug 28, 2023 (National Weather Service - Lincoln, IL)
Storm Idalia seen strengthening to hurricane ahead of Florida landfall
(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Idalia was expected to intensify into a major hurricane on Monday as it barreled toward Florida's Gulf Coast, where authorities urged millions of residents to prepare to eva...
Aug 28, 2023 (National Weather Service)
UPDATE: Trump says he will appeal trial date given in federal election case
UPDATED 2:39 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he will appeal the trial date of March 2024 in the case wherein he has been criminally charged over attempts ...
Aug 28, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 29, 2023. REUTERS/Lindsay DeDario/File Photo
Gas prices decreasing in Peoria area but trend might not last. Here's the latest prices
PEORIA, Ill. - Gas prices in central Illinois are on a downward trend, but that trend might not last too long. GasBuddy is reporting the average price of unleaded is $3.93/g, down 7.5 cents from last ...
Aug 28, 2023 Mike Mozart / CC
Princeville teacher arrested Friday on battery charges. Here's what we know
PRINCEVILLE, Ill. - The Peoria County Sheriff's Office says a Princeville teacher has been arrested on battery charges. On Friday, August 25, detectives arrested 46-year-old Anthony R. Johnson, an art...
Aug 28, 2023 (Peoria County Jail)
Bicycle vs. vehicle crash in Peoria leaves one dead
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police were called early Monday morning to the intersection of W. Howett and S. Western on reports of someone hit by a vehicle. Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says office...
Aug 28, 2023 (Midwest Communications)
Russia says genetic tests confirm Wagner chief Prigozhin died in plane crash
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash las...
Aug 28, 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of Russian private mercenary group Wagner, gives an address in camouflage and with a weapon in his hands in a desert area at an unknown location, in this still image taken from video possibly shot in Africa and published August 21, 2023. Courtesy PMC Wagner via Telegram via REUTERS/File photo
UPDATE: Father of Highland Park parade shooter must stand trial
UPDATED 1:39 P.M. HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (FOX News) - The father of the Highland Park parade shooter must stand trial for reckless misconduct. FOX News reports that was the decision by the judge in Rober...
Aug 28, 2023 Brian Turner / CC
Mark Meadows' lawyers to argue for moving Georgia election case to federal court
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for Donald Trump's onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows are set to argue in court Monday that a federal judge should take over a Georgia criminal case alleging he and the fo...
Aug 28, 2023 Mark Meadows is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office, after a Grand Jury brought back indictments against former U.S. President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies in their attempt to overturn the state's 2020 election results in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 24, 2023. Fulton County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File photo
