Category Archives: Top Stories
Peoria City/County Racial Justice and Equity Commission releases report
PEORIA, Ill. - "Not a flattering account." That's how one member of the Peoria Racial Justice and Equity Commission describes their first report, showing more than obvious disparities in virtually eve...
Mar 29, 2023 (Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': Secretly recorded videos show ComEd lobbyists discussing alleged bribery scheme
CHICAGO, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Longtime Commonwealth Edison contract lobbyist Jay Doherty thought he was merely reminiscing and giving advice to a colleague and friend in a February 2019 meet...
Mar 29, 2023 Former ComEd lobbyists Mike McClain (left) and Jay Doherty are pictured in secretly recorded videos from 2019 that were shown to a jury Tuesday in their federal trial for accused bribery and corruption. (Screenshots from video presented as evidence in court)
South Peoria house fire deemed arson
PEORIA, Ill. - Peoria Fire officials are investigating yet another arson -- this time to a home in South Peoria. Peoria firefighters went to a vacant home near Livingston and Grinnell around 5:20 Wedn...
Mar 29, 2023 Midwest Communications
Former Peoria City Council at-large member passes away
PEORIA, Ill. - The Peoria City Council took time at Tuesday night's meeting to honor and remember a former at-large member. Timothy J. Newlin passed away on Friday, March 24th at his home surrounded b...
Mar 29, 2023 (1470 & 100.3 WMBD/Wright & Salmon Mortuary)
Security authority discusses tactics to make schools safer from attacks
PEORIA, Ill. -- Following a deadly mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, school security is top of mind. 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student of Covenant School, a private Christian sc...
Mar 29, 2023 (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via Facebook)
N.Y. grand jury not expected to consider Trump case again until after Easter -source
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York grand jury probing former President Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to reconvene on the matter until after the Apri...
Mar 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on education as he holds a campaign rally with supporters, in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. March 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Peoria Fire responds to early morning fire at apartment complex
PEORIA, Ill. - No one was injured after a patio fire at an apartment complex early Wednesday morning. Peoria Fire received a call just before 2:30 A.M. to the Haymeadow Apartments on West Haymeadow re...
Mar 29, 2023 (File-Will Stevenson/1470 & 100.3 WMBD)
Tennessee governor says his wife, 2 school shooting victims were friends
NASHVILLE (Reuters) - Mourners will gather at a vigil on Wednesday to grieve the three children and three adults shot to death this week at a Nashville Christian school, as Tennessee's governor reveal...
Mar 29, 2023 View of signs placed by children from St. Paul Christian Academy along the street in remembrance after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Austin Anthony
Nashville school shooter had 'emotional disorder' and small arsenal, police say
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor's care for an "e...
Mar 29, 2023 Emily Ryan and her children pray at a memorial at the school entrance after a deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Austin Anthony
Ukraine says Russians repelled in Bakhmut
(Reuters) - Russian forces are relentless in their attempts to capture the bombed-out eastern Ukrainian towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka but are not making progress, Ukraine's military said, but a pro-Mo...
Mar 29, 2023 FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a car damaged by debris, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Avdiivka, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, March 15, 2023, in this screen grab obtained from a video. Donetsk Region Police/Handout via REUTERS
