Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria Police are looking for ten people involved in recent various retail thefts, and they'll keep calling suspects out
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Police say they're looking for ten people who have allegedly committed retail thefts in the recent past, and they're going to keep talking about such cases until they're all solv...
Aug 10, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Four US citizens moved from Iranian prison to house arrest
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four U.S. citizens detained by Iran have left Tehran's Evin prison and are now under house arrest, a lawyer for one of them told Reuters on Thursday, saying he hoped this was a s...
Aug 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Iran's and U.S.' flags are seen printed on paper in this illustration taken January 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Two injured in two-vehicle crash in Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. - Two people have been injured after a late-morning two-vehicle crash in Peoria. Peoria Police say it happened near Gale and Forest Hill prior to 11 a.m. Thursday in the vicinity of a gas...
Aug 10, 2023 (25 News)
160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of abusive psychiatrist she exposed
(Capitol News Illinois) - In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, in pa...
Aug 10, 2023 Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a news conference in Springfield on Wednesday before signing an order to rename McFarland Mental Health Center after Elizabeth Packard, a woman who was committed into an Illinois asylum against her will in 1860.
Donald Trump aide pleads not guilty to new charges in US documents case
FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) -An aide to Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to additional federal charges that accused him of misleading investigators who were trying to recover classified ...
Aug 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Walt Nauta, personal aide to former U.S. President Donald Trump, exits Fort Pierce U.S. courthouse after a hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S. July 18, 2023. REUTERS/Maria Alejandra Cardona/File Photo
'Protect the boss' or faulty memory: ex-Madigan aide's grand jury testimony scrutinized
CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) - Taking occasional notes - a habit hard-wired after more than 25 years as Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's chief of staff - Tim Mapes sat and listened to openi...
Aug 10, 2023 Tim Mapes, the former chief of staff for longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Monday. He is standing trial for perjury and obstruction of justice. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
US consumer prices rise moderately in July; weekly jobless claims above expectations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. consumer prices increased moderately in July amid lower costs for goods, including used motor vehicles, a trend that could persuade the Federal Reserve to leave interest ra...
Aug 10, 2023 Shoppers crowd a supermarket to buy food ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 22, 2022. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
Drought levels in central Illinois are decreasing. Here's the latest numbers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Drought is decreasing in central Illinois after relief from recent rains and cooler temperatures in the past week. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday shows all ...
Aug 10, 2023 (National Weather Service)
Donald Trump's aides set to enter pleas in US classified documents case
FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) - Two aides to Donald Trump are set to enter pleas in federal court in Florida on Thursday in a case accusing the former U.S. president of unlawfully taking classified d...
Aug 10, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets the crowd during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Reba Saldanha/File Photo
House committee releases more Biden bank records
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Members of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released more bank records said to be related to the Biden family's business dealings. The committee's chairman James Comer cla...
Aug 10, 2023 Nelson Runkle / CC
