Category Archives: Top Stories
Firefighter injured in Peoria fire overnight. Here's what we know
PEORIA, Ill. - It appears arson is to blame for a fire on S. Western in Peoria Thursday night. Crews were called just before midnight to a home in between W. Lincoln Avenue and W. Ann Street, after a ...
Jul 14, 2023 D4E / CC
Sheriffs deputies say 'case closed' after mailboxes were blown up Wednesday night
PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. - Some mailboxes in rural Peoria County ended up destroyed, and the Sheriffs Department may want to know who did it. Sheriffs officials say deputies went to the area of South Roeth...
Jul 13, 2023 (Peoria County Sheriffs Department)
A teenager makes an appearance in court regarding a fatal accident he allegedly caused
PEKIN, Ill. - A Pekin teenager being tried as an adult for a fatal accident he allegedly caused last month has pleaded not guilty to the crime. Court records indicate that's what happened during an ar...
Jul 13, 2023 Tazewell County Courthouse (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
LaHood, Sorensen draft legislation that could benefit Peoria's 182nd Airlift Wing. Here's how
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Both the Democratic and Republican congressmen in this area say they're working together to make sure the 182nd Airlift Wing based in Peoria is taken care of. Congressmen Eric Soren...
Jul 13, 2023 (U.S. Air National Guard/Staff Sgt. Paul Helmig)
The Peoria City Council is working on changing the city's ordinance regarding tobacco stores and 'vape shops.' Here's what's happening
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council won't issue any more tobacco shop licenses until it figures out some growing problems with those that sell vapes or e-cigarettes. The Council this week voted to ...
Jul 13, 2023 Revival Vape / CC
Peoria County Coroner: Man crushed to death at powder coating facility
MACKINAW, Ill. - A Creve Coeur man is dead after an accident at a powder coating facility. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Bradley Willis, Jr., 42, was pronounced dead at a Peoria hospital ab...
Jul 13, 2023 Andrew Malone / CC
Hollywood actors poised to strike, join writers on picket lines
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Hollywood actors went on strike on Thursday after talks with studios broke down, joining film and television writers who have been on picket lines since May and deepening the di...
Jul 13, 2023 Striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) members walk the picket line in New York City, U.S., July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
US 'under no circumstances' will pay climate reparations, Kerry says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will not pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate-fueled disasters, John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, told a congressional hea...
Jul 13, 2023 U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry testifies before a House Foreign Affairs Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing on the State Department's climate budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 13, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin to re-introduce bill ending the federal death penalty. Here's why
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is re-introducing a bill that would end the death penalty on a federal level. The bicameral "Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2023" was also int...
Jul 13, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Biden 'guarantees' US backs NATO in Finland, but Trump shadow lingers
HELSINKI (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Thursday gave his assurance that the United States would stay committed to NATO despite "extreme elements" of the Republican Party, in remarks during a visi...
Jul 13, 2023 U.S. President Joe Biden attends a U.S.-Nordic Leaders meeting with Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Iceland's Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir in Helsinki, Finland, July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
